Thanks Dave. This article was the difference between me actually using seq24 or not. I knew it was a good program, but couldn't figure out how to set up patterns to play one at a time in the Performance Editor. I don't think it says it in the "SEQ24" file and I gave up trying (thinking it couldn't be done). And that one missing item was enough to make me not use the program. I'm glad you filled in the blanks because I really want to give this a chance because of it's simple, unbloated approach. It (seems) to have what I need. When I get the chance, I'm going to try syncing it up to ecasound via jack transport. This was what I was planning all along but coudn't figure out the Performance Editor until your article. I'll be using specimen as the sampler because (just like ecasound and seq24) it's also unbloated and works well. I guess this will be my approach... stable progams that all do specific tasks... connected and running together (although ecasound does an incredible amout of things and is deceivingly versitile... and yet is very stable and excellent for multitrack recording). btw... I listened to one of the peices you created with seq24... I liked it... it had an interesting sound. Rocco