Guys, Many thanks for the time and effort spent on giving advice, it's much appreciated. Basically, you guys have recommended: -Mandrake + Thac's RPMs (Robert) -DeMuDi (Tim and Stefano) -Planet CCRMA (Jan) ..Which basically boils down to: Mandrake vs Debian vs Redhat. Not sure if it's a wise decision, but I'm then thinking about choosing the distro based on: -Is ALSA supported on the distro or did you have to download and install ALSA separately? -Did you find the kernel easy to patch for low latency? (I assume all Thac's, DeMuDi and Planet have some patch set for this). Any thoughts much appreciated. Yours, Alex PS: starting a new thread soon to briefly explain what note tuning and audio quantizing is for the ones who are interested, glad to contribute somehow :-) _________________________________________________________________ ?Est?s pensando en cambiar de coche? Todas los modelos de serie y extras en MSN Motor. http://motor.msn.es/researchcentre/