If it's anything like the Es, you have to set the banks right to get the gm sounds, including drums. I know Yamaha makes a GM board which would most likely do what you want, i my mnind, it's too expensive for what it would add for you just to get GM sounds. John Fioravanti ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Lütteke <robert.luetteke@xxxxxx> To: Motif Access <MoAccess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:47 AM Subject: [MoAccess] the motif used as gm-sounddevice Hi! EThe sounds of my motif xs are great. Is it possible to use it as a gm-device so that windows can plsay midifiles through the xs? I choosed the midiport but the drums don't come. why not? the xs has doch a gm-bank. regards, Robert.