>>now i try to use hydrogen for drums, IMHO it has very good "swing" and >>"humanize" functions. The only version of Hydrogen that I've used is 0.8.0. It didn't have any "real-time" recording capabilities (press record, play your midi keyboard and it records in real time). I had to go to a window and use mouse clicks to input notes. Is there a version out there that allows for "real-time" recording? The drums sounds in Hydrogen are the best I've heard. But they have their own format. I just wish they were standardized sounds (like WAV samples or sound fonts). I'm not sure I can load any sounds that I want (other than Hydrogen-format sounds). Rocco