James Morris wrote: Yesno :) reminds me to the loudness war, were silent passages are as loud as loud passages ;). I guaranty in 15 years or earlier we will get back dynamic music, even for looped mainstream music. At the moment we've got a lot of musical effect overkill, if you can't hear Auto-Tune while people are singing, you'll hear that they use it in auto-tuned breathing space. Any timing issue is much more important, not only for "classical" musicians, but also for people with a "modern" approach, than automation is. And! we do have automation. But ok, some wish to have more possibilities for automation and I've to admit it's nothing bad. It's just that on my wish list sync is more important. Ralf