I should have indicated in my previous response that I also spent some time with Roland's HQ Hyper Canvas. It works very well as a VST instrument in Cubase SX. If I could easily convert my Yamaha Styles XG Drums to GM/GM2 compatible drums, I would be away to the races. I could ditch my Audigy Soundcard and use one very high quality soundcard (e.g., RME) for everything instead of the 2 I now use. In general, I could then use Cubase SX and run the following all at the same time:

LiveStyler on HQ Hyper Canvas
VoiceMachine - Vocal Harmonizer (once it works)
Kontakt - Lead/Melody voices

It would have been nice to use VStack but it does not bring in Audio (voice). I would not have been able to use a vocal harmonizer which depends on midi notes.

I think I am very close to a completely software based arranger system - my original goal.


[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 06-17-2003).]