Rikki, its good to see you are still busy at making all this software stuff work for you.....perfectly. Yes, I think it will work out for me with regard to the GM compatibility issue. The NI Kompakt Player which comes with Colossus may not beable to receive program change messages as the East West Tech indicated but I can always use Kontakt for this. Nonetheless, conversion of the Yamaha Styles to GM from XG remains alot of boring work....but I will do it once and then its done.

Colossus is a 14 GB GM Bank (not GM2). You really do not need more than the regular GM provided the voices are of high quality. In cases where I need a specific voice like Pedal Steel I would just change out an exiting synth voice which I never use with it. As I said in my initial post the styles do sound very good using this GM Bank. I just need to get the program change happening and then I am away to the races.

Rikki, it occurs to me suddenly I should have asked you also why you prefer OMB over Live - Styler. I still have not solved the conflicts with it after the installation of all this new software. Nonetheless this is all very exciting. I will get it all to work sooner or later.



[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 04-27-2005).]