Frank, thanks for your suggestions. I have
been carefully assigning Midi Yoke as you
recommended, but still get a shutdown of
the program right after an error message.

I agree with you totally, that the robustness
of the style player program should be the first and foremost priority. The demo of OMB 5 is a much more stable program than LiveStyler5 on my system(so far).

I also think the midi file and mp3 player
features in LiveStyler are unnecessary, since
both tasks can already be accomplished by free and efficient programs(vanbasco and winamp).
Unfortunately, for software arranger Yamaha style players, OMB and LiveStyler are the only games in town.

I was wondering is it very difficult(for someone with your knowledge and experience)
to use ALIVE to create soundfonts of all
Yamaha drumkits that could be used in LiveSynth to play the styles correctly?
It seems to me, that ONLY you,I,or hopefully someone else, can make the appropriate soundfont to turn Forte and LiveSynth into a properly functioning Yamaha DEVICE that will allow proper functioning without Yamaha style
modification. If not, perhaps you can contact SynerGigs to make such an
"XG soundfont" to sell at a reasonable price.

Thanks.