Really appreciate your in depth reply to my enquiry ..you have given me a lot to think about and you make some very interesting suggestions for software which i will look further into..it is a whole new world for me as i have only ever played other people CDLC but never created any of my own and TBH i have not worked with midi before either, so it does all look like a very big learning curve to me and maybe not as easy and straight forward as I had anticipated