chris beagles wrote: From time to time some suggestions pop up here, but I can't really recommend any site in particular since I rarely shop there. It also depends heavily on your taste and style of music... Soundfonts wouldn't bee too taxing on the cpu either AFAIK. Try fluidsynth or one of it's guis, most notably Qsynth and fluidsynth-dssi.so (the later for instance with ghostess). Soundfonts are of course much easier to deal with than single samples when we're talking about multi sampled instruments like piano. BTW: The best (free) piano I heard is ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/sf2/Steinway_IMIS2.2/Steinway_IMIS2.2.… For drums, I always design a kit for each song, and specimen is super-super fast at doing that. It's not that tricky. And the community is very helpful. -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk