Hi, I'm not visually impaired, but I prefer text-based composition tools myself. I'd recommend checking out (in no particular order) compo (built on tom of cm/clm/cmn) midge (perl module for making midi files) haskore (if you're a programmer) I use all these and some home-grown python code to produce and mangle midi files into a final form I'm happy with, then I use csound or timidity to render the midi files to audio, then ecasound to mix the audio together. No gui required from start to end. Cheers, Stuart -------------- Stuart Allie