Alejandro Lopez wrote: > apparently Windows XP uses a soft synth by default. [...] I'll be > looking into using the fonts that Windows may have. At the moment, > all I know is they sound quite good and quite uniform (they work > well as a GM set). They are related to Roland's Sound Canvas sounds: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.HPX.4.33n.0404070904380.17626-100000%40studcom.urz.uni-halle.de > I shall investigate wether the waves are in any known sond font > format or not. The file gm.dls or gm16.dls is stored in ...\system32\drivers\. The DLS format is an MMA standard: http://www.midi.org/about-midi/dls/abtdls.shtml HTH Clemens