Hi Janina, I agree that there is an issue with keeping the speech stream out of the music stream. I actually had a thought on that when I read your message. I have 5.1 surround sound, it would be possible to put the voice stream to the rear speakers and therefore keep it separate from the music stream coming through the front speakers. I don't know if any of the software synth developers would be interested in enabling this as an option, but it is one possible solution. A "separate" sound device like "voice" in the mixer might also be an option, but i'm not sure if that would address all issues. It would allow recording software to supress that device for it's incoming data stream. Don't get me wrong, I have no bias against hardware synths and I do wish development on them would continue. It would be so nice to have a firewire or usb connected hw synth! Especially one that the manufacturer would publish enough documentation for to enable a speakup/yasr/emacs speak driver to be written. I guess even a PCI hw synth would be helpfull, but PCI like ISA before it will eventually go away. Regards, Cecil
