You are right, John. I apologize for ranting...but I am still smarting from the DanielK incident, if anyone remembers that. It took a hack-and-fix by DanielK to unlock the potential of the PMCIA laptop card that Creative produced. What did Creative do? They went after DanielK on copyright grounds; they should have hired him.

On another note, I have worked with the Creative X-FI Elite Pro with good results. I suppose you get what you pay for.

Anyway, the SynthFont suite of freeware (donorware?) is outstanding. I use it both with PG Music products as well as NoteWorthy Composer with no problems.