Hi Guys,
thank you for all the suggestions. I might have a far bigger learning curve than I expected.

You're probably using your setups in a way that I can't quite envisage yet, though, envisaging a soft synth in a similar fashion to an external synth ( had heaps of those,) makes it a bit clearer.

I've got a fair bit of software ie Jammer 5, BIAB, XG Works, OMB, Acid4 plus a couple of other sequencers etc

What I'm really wanting to do primarily is create backing sequences using the above programs and either record them and save as mp3 ( for use in my kn7) if I find a soft synth that works well enough with primarily XG psr styles. If I need to do a lot of sound editing to make the backing track work, then I'd save as a midifile instead and edit it for my kn.

Is latency a problem for the above scenario or only if I want to record a keyboard performance to computer using the soft synth.

To date I've only used BIAB, XG Works & Jammer for creating styles for my kn, but it's probably about time I started using them properly.

I've got a roland soft synth that was supplied with BIAB, it just sounds so awful on my old laptop. Obviously the culprit is my laptop and not the soft synth.

Looks like I'll be looking for an external sound card next?? meanwhile I'll do some exploring on the site, and see if I can make some sense out of it all.

Thanks again for all the links and your help.

Haa Haa, good try Frank, maybe one day when they build a proper computer based arranger
ie generic laptop, generic keyboard controller, software, and a little black box to connect to your laptop/keyboard that gives all the required buttons to press ie Intro ,variations, fills, stop , start etc I'd hate having to do that from the laptop itself.
They used to build all sorts of little strange midi add ons like faders and editors for the synths so why not an arranger add on.

Dreaming again.

thanks guys
best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Frank L. Rosenthal:
[You see Rikki you could abandon your KN!!!