greetings! I've been messing with Muse a lot recently and there is one thing I haven't been able to manage completely. and that thing is, you've guessed it, MIDI syncing. I own a DR-880 Drum Machine which I connect via a USB cable to my computer and use it as a MIDI device in the qjackctl pathcbay I then proceed to add the DR-880 in Midi Ports/Soft Synths in Muse, after which Midi Ports/Soft Synths shows an Instrument named "generic midi" and a device named "DR-880" followed by: "Play:Device or resource busy". I don't understand why Muse says it's busy when nothing is playing on it. I set up MIDI Sync so that Muse is the Master and turn on "MIDI Clock" and "MIDI Machine Control" and set the port to 3 'cause that's the port I used in MIDI Ports/Soft Synths for the DR-880. So, finally when I press play in Muse the DR-880 starts playing. yay, great. But my enthusiasm didn't last for long as I was soon to find out that when I skip playback in Muse to a certain point or rewind it back the DR-880 keeps on playing. And this is EXTREMELY annoying and discouraging, especially for long songs where I have to play them from start each time just to record a MIDI solo on my keyboard at the last minute and it also makes music making tedious and boring. Now, what am I missing? Is Muse supposed to work this way and only sync with a MIDI device when played from the start? Or more probaly I misconfigured or my lack of knowledge is causing this. I kindly ask for any sort of help or some light on my dark path of playing the song from start to end each time I want to record a new part or edit it. Note: I figured out that I could place markers in certain points of the track where a pattern on the DR-880 is starting and then manually rewind on the DR-880 to that part when I want to start from a particular point in the song but this is also time consuming and driving me mad. Sorry for the extremely long mail but I am starting to lose my patience with this particular issue. Thnx, Hiram. -- "I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago. " Robert Moog