Hi Flo! With exclusive group I thought of the cut-by feature. You put the typical three-hihats sound (closed, pedal and open) into one kit and say cut=1 by=1, so the effect is a group of monophinic keys. About the sample-full-play feature: Yes I thought, that samples take the note-on event, but ignore the note-off event, so they just play until the file is finished. About the simplistic interactive text-ui: Well that sound fine for the current state. It would be sufficient to reset/reload, load and quit. About ADSR: Well of course you could use a soundfile-editor and create something like an adsr. BUT: Waht about the following scenario: I say stop sample when note-off comes. But don't stop immediately, but apply a short release period. You can't include this from an external sample-editor. Because the editor only applies the ADSR statically. It can't know, when I say note-off. That's ok, if I choose the complete-file play mode. About libxml: I have libxml2 installed and the scons gives something like: File included from somewhere, until it comes to: /usr/local/include/libxml/parser.h: Syntax error before function: XMLPUBFUN void XMLCALL somefunction(parameters) It complained about the XMLPUBFUN and XMLCALL, but it seems to be a problem of mine, I just wondered if more people had it. So is it about this special version of libxml2 (2.6.19) or if it is a special problem of mine? Thanks and kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de