Hi Scott. Yep. I have checked all of settings. Most rely on the master setting in control panel for Win 7, but I checked anyway. Everything is showing ua-4fx except on the Real Band midi driver window. In that window, it shows ua-4fx at the top for output, but ms sound mapper for input. However, ua-4fx is selected in the list and according to Help that's the most important thing since you can have more than 1 driver selected. Again according to Help, the place of driver in the list determines which port gets read first. I did run CCleaner on the Registry, but that didn't help either. I don't mess around in the registry though since I'm still back in the .ini days .

I'm embarrassed to to say that I had a very good soft synth and didn't even know it. I've had Mixcraft 5 for some time but never really learned much about it. I decided to load the midi file into it and mix down to an mp3. The sound is really great! I think it's almost as good as the SD2. I'm really surprised and I like being able to set the codec to a high quality mp3. I'm really glad that I took the time to give it a try. Maybe some day I'll figure out what's the problem with Real Band, but in the interim Mixcraft can be used for my midi to mp3 chores.

Cornet Curmudgeon