Thanks so much for the advice. It pretty much looks like I will be living with it just as it is. Last night I loaded the midi into this old old version of cakewalk (around win3.1 old. I can see no tempo changes but can see the player did slow down. I tried deleting all the sys entries, no change. I then found the bar where the slowing started and from that bar to the end I deleted all the data. Then I copied the last line of the last chorus which was at the normal tempo and pasted it onto the area I had deleted. Still no change. Guess it's learn to change it or learn to live with it. Thanks again, take care. Bryan.