Thanks, Rikki and Frank.
AJ, your detailled soft synth 'tutorial' in Terry's forum also helped me a lot. I'm sure that with time, I'll have questions, but for now, I'm surprised how easy it was to sound so good with just so little time invested. The sounds I'm using: Splendid Piano, Mr Ray LE, sYnergY GS (not free but inexpensive), Merlin GM bank, Organized Trio, this terrific Rhodes ( http://www.learjeff.com/sf/sf.html ), and a couple of other specif instrument soundfonts. Does anybody know where I can find a good bagpipe soundfont (preferably free)? I'm also using Forte Ensemble (not free) and sfz (free). I can't imagine how good are the commercial soft instruments...
-- José.

[This message has been edited by Route 66 (edited 01-11-2005).]