Hallo, Dan Mills hat gesagt: // Dan Mills wrote: Thanks for this additional info. I admit I've never used the Salem software. Personally I really would build such a custom solution in Pd, not only, because I'm an experienced Pd user, but also because it offers so many possibilities to easily build custom interfaces to control sound. And Pd is actually used for theatrical performances in Austria and in other places, too. (Unless those places use Max/MSP ;) With Pd, using hardware controllers like midi faderboxes, keyboards or the wide range of USB HID devices like joysticks or jog/shuttle wheels like the Contour Shuttle products is very simple and easy. Another advantage is, that in your GUI you can hide away all those things, which you don't want to see while performing--something which "off the shelf" software would have a hard time to predict. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__