Rikki,

As a stopgap until one of us can possibly together a good soundfont, I've used "another xg soundfont". While it isn't the ideal font, I find it's overall sounds to be at least as good and in some areas a bit better than my SY-XG50 module.

I experimented a bit with Midi-ox and remapping of some GM patches so that they would correspond to some of the better quality voices of the Motif ES. So far so good. For now I'm working on converting the GM standard over to Es patches, simply because it should make ( GM ) midifile playback sound a lot better on the ES. It should also correspond well with OMB and style play when I use OMB in the GM synth mode. It's simpler than remapping XG to ES format, but if it works well and there are no latency issues ( it appears that I'll have to actually use midiox as an inline translator ), then I'll likely remap the XG banks / patches to fit the ES as well.

AJ