Omar: my experience has been that inserting the soft synth in the synth rack or with insert will not allow the parameters to be edited in the inspector. when you insert it to de fx bin then you can open the audio track's inspector and by hitting shift right arrow you find the effects view then you do a shift down arrow and you can change three fx modes for viewing. one of them displays 4 parameters that you can edit or reassign to edit different parameters and all the changes will all be recalled when you load this project. but in the case of inserting the soft synth in the effects bin, i have encountered problems when freezing the track. to insert the soft synth i do it a little differently,. i open the insert from the menu bar, then select audio track, then go to the fx bin and hit application key and select soft synth. The second answer is that if your soft synth recognizes patch change then or if it is multi-timbral then you need to assign the midi channel. I hope my explanation was clear. Luis ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar Binno To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:50 PM Subject: [ddots-l] more soft synth questions Hello: I have two questions about soft synth insertions. 1. What is the difference between inserting a soft synth by going to alt I, then inserting it that way, or if you rout jaws to pc on a midi track, then insert an audio track, and then insert the soft synth as an effect in the effects bin of the audio track? 2. When I insert a soft synth, do I need to go to the midi track assigned to the soft synth and assign it to a midi channel? Thanks. Omar Binno