> But your email gave me an idea. Rather than use Hydrogen (which I really > like) or another percussion program to produce drums for any particular > piece of music I'm working on, I could simply use one of the percussion > kits in one of my MIDI tone generators, which maps a whole array of > percussion from bass drums to snares to toms to hi-hats to everything > else, to the various keys of a MIDI keyboard. Then I can simply use the > keyboard skills I already have to "play" the drums in real time and > accompany my already recorded tracks of piano, organ, etc. That's what I do, sometimes using my keyboard which I can whack somewhat accurately, or my guitar midi controller which I can whack more accurately but sometimes doesn't track as well. Philip - http://blogs.xcskiwinn.org/panmanphil "There's a difference between righteous anger and just being crabby" - Barbara