As a relative newbie to MIDI stuff, take this for what it might be worth, but I think there might need to be something connected to a MIDI Thru port, but I'd have to look at the notes I took in my MIDI class last semester. I remember there's a distinct difference in out vs. thru, in how signals are passed along to the other device(s) in a chain. Otherwise, I don't know, but I'm sure there are many others on here that do Tina E Please feel free to visit my blog, Tina's Virtual BackPack: http://tvbp.wordpress.com tina-e@xxxxxxxxx