It's actually been a huge pain thus far heh.
I was able to use the editor to swap some plugins around so I'd have patches I need right in order in Bank 1, but for some reason, it kept resetting my custom ones to whatever the factory preset it's based on was (and also wouldn't update any patch name changes when I SysEx dumped to it). Infuriatingly frustrating, but after I unplugged, then re-edited, I could use my custom presets for the gig.
I'm afraid to use USB MIDI anymore, only 5-pin MIDI out so that the editor doesn't screw up what's on my Take 5 again. Hopefully fixes are coming!
Were your issues ever resolved?
I'm considering picking up the PlugSE version so I can see all my current settings for a given patch at a glance, but am thinking perhaps I should wait until sometime after the firmware update is officially released.
Also, does the PlugSE include the sequencer editor? It's unclear to me how the standalone and plugin versions differentiate, but despite the website's lack of clarity I'm guessing the plugin is missing the generative patch and sequencer editor features since they're not mentioned in the manual?
I don't really get why so much emphasis is placed on using the plugin for automation -- are there things that the plugin can make available for automation that can't already be done natively in your DAW, or is it just the facility of being able to see the patch settings at a glance while automating?
It's also weird that the manual uses screen grabs from other synths, and that some pages on the website have the wrong synth name in their title -- I mean I understand it's all got to be a lot of work maintaining documentation when you could be working on software features/fixes but a demonstrated attention to detail is a quality I look for in my tools.
Cobblers kids always need new shoes and small operations, yada yada, I get it, but gotta say my comfort level is not super-high and has def kept me from pulling the trigger.