I am curious which synthesizer this developer was working on, and if it is hardware-based or software-based. If it is hardware-based, then it would be good if this person could point to specifications to help people write Linux support for it if such support doesn't already exist in any form. The issues are obviously different if we're dealing with a software-based synth (ie, it would explicitly need to support Linux). And I should probably post this to slashdot; maybe I will later on. On a different subject, I applied for a slashdot account a long time ago but never got my password (don't know if I typoed my email address or what). Does anyone know who I should contact about this? --Michael Gorse, WPI Cs '01 / ICQ:22583968 / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ -- If you're an oister, then don't let your perl get away from you.