Dear Dan, if you want to use your midi gear instead of sound essentials, I find Sibelius handling of Midi rather hard to understand. There is a tab in playback devices called preferred instruments where you can choose which midi device is going to be assigned to a particular instrument, but not which midi channel. There is another tab cold manual sound settings where you're supposed to decide this, but I've never been able to go through all the items in this tab because at one point, Sibelius crashes. Do you think you can do something about this in the future? A good thing to would be to provide a clearer explanation than the one in Sibelius manual about assigning your midi synthesizers to instruments in Sibelius, if that's possible. Cheers, JPR http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx