Last Monday 21 February 2005 14:42, CC-Band was like: > jack & hydrogen works fine but sometimes hydrogen crashes immediately. > what can i do to get information, why? There is a 'messages' button on QJackCtl, which will provide some basic information. You may need to configure hydrogen to use JACK. > the second thing: how can i extract the waves (samples) from downloaded > ddrum mid-files? one way is to record the play samples (with ddrum-tool), > but this takes al ot of time ... Don't know ddrum. If these are .mid files, surely they won't contain any samples? Please explain. cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk