> Devil's advocate: 6 channels. Each channel has everything you want. I'm > not saying it is fun or clever, but it works, no? Yep, That's exactly how they fudge MIDI guitars. They're treating each MIDI channel as a 'voice' (string). It's not really an argument *against* voices, It's illustrating that you *do* need to be able to address each voice individually. But why have two ways of doing the same thing? A Channel should be a Channel, not a pseudo-voice. Jeff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Generalized Music Plugin Interface (GMPI) public discussion list Participation in this list is contingent upon your abiding by the following rules: Please stay on topic. You are responsible for your own words. Please respect your fellow subscribers. Please do not redistribute anyone else's words without their permission. Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/gmpi Email gmpi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w/ subject "unsubscribe" to unsubscribe