Midi not getting to VI in Studio One 3

I have am ruing Studio One 3.5 on a 2011 3.4GHz i7 iMac, ruing 10.12.6.

I have instantiated Superior Drummer 3 on an instrument track and get sound from SD3 on the chael when mouse clicking the drums.

I have a Alesis e-drum kit hooked up and is set up in external devices receiving on all chaels. I can see that midi is coming in as the midi monitor records the notes coming in and yet Superior drummer is not receiving any midi. I have record and input monitoring clicked, Input is set to all inputs and Output is set to Superior Drummer.

I am sure this has to be some small oversight on my part but I have been dealing for this for a few days now and I am frustrated enough to post this.

Help!

PS I LOVE Studio One and only want to work in this platform, but when performing this same task in Pro Tools I just open and run it in a matter of seconds with no issues.