Hi Uncle Dave,

Your dead right, you need a space up front to put these patch and command changes into a midi file otherwise sounds, effects, etc don't come in. When using my KN5000 if you set your sequence in Technics mode you can do away with the first bar and panel set all the tracks sounds etc. Thus an instant start. I've done a couple of Sequences on the SD1 now and the one beat bar at a clock rate of 250 for that bar seems to do the trick the delay before starting is very small (not quite instant though).

John Romero.