Hi Rachael - Many Thanks for that.

I'm now beginning to think it's nothing to do with the midi set-up.

For my all-RT/RD set-up, I'm pretty sure the count-in sound comes from the RDs not from midi.

2 bits of evidence for that: a) with no RD loaded, the count in clearly sounds Midi, not Real; and b) Although all the RD's I use have a 'stick' count-in, one doesn't: Craig Scott's JazzBrushesWaltz plays the count-in with brushes not sticks !

So that suggests to me that the issue may be something to do with the speed of loading RD's ?

And that's odd, because my new machine is pretty quick (Dell i7 2.2GB, fast HDD etc) - much faster than my previous Dell Latitude....

Have you found the same problem... ?

Thanks again Rachael - Best - Andy