Hi Mike, One thing to watch out for with Garritan is, most midi instruments have CC0 (Control change 0) for modulation. Garritan foolishly decided that CC0 would be volume instead. It's a Stupid thing to do as if you have say a digital piano with no modulation or pitch bend wheels, the chances are when you switch the piano on, it will reset midi CC0 to value 0 equals no volume. They should have left volume on CC7. If you understand a little about control changes, I put below a little info which will help make a couple of the trumpets sound a little more believable. Release Effects (CC#15): Trumpets in a jazz context often release notes in unusual ways. The three most common are: "falloffs," "doits," and "kisses." In Jazz & Big Band these effects can be chosen with CC#15. They are switched as follows: Table with 2 columns and 4 rows Value 0-32 Off Value 33-64 Falloffs Value 65-95 Doits Value 96-127 Kisses table end Steve W Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Tyo To: ddots-l Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:46 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: To anyone using Garritan Thanks Gord. Now that you mentioned it, I should've done that when I was reading some of the manual; You know how it is when you wanna get things up and running in a minimal amount of time. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Gordon Kent To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 01:08 Subject: [ddots-l] Re: To anyone using Garritan Hi: Your best bet is to study the midi implementation section of the manual. Many midi controllers are mapped to gpo parameters. Gord __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6416 (20110827) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6417 (20110828) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com