Hi Danny C.!

I have been using a Sound Canvas of some type for years as a sound module - now I have an SD-20. But I just bought a new computer just for the music and I am thinking of running my sound out from the headphones jack to the mixing board - like you do. I have been cautioned by two professionals that that is not a good idea because of electrical hum and clicks, etc. They say it is unrealiable - it may work in most venues but then it will sound awful in others. But you sound like you have never had any such problems! How do you avoid such problems? The same two professionals also told me that the hardware sound modules, like the SD-20 or the older Sound Canvas products are all superior in sound to any virtual sound cards on the market. I would love to hear your ideas and experience on these headphones jack and sound quality issues since you seem to have a lot of experience in these areas! Thank you in advance for your time!

Another part of this thread discussed placing files in one or more folders or in the Jukebox - where they are apparently only filed alphabetically. I just recently put all 500 files I take to a job in one folder and arranged them in the order they are in within my fake book (which is not strickly alphabetical). I used a numberical prefix in front of the file names in the folder I intend to play from (while I have separate folders for original back-up copies of all the files). The numbers start at 0001 and go on with 0002, etc. It seems to work as I can play them rather quicly out of Real Band just by going back to file "open" which takes me back directly to that one master folder with all the songs. This also allows me to run the Big Clock in Real Band. I talk some between songs and do requests so I don't follow a predetermined order of songs. Of course, I can easily produce one of those if needed - in fact I have many of them in my old Cakewalk Professional program's playlist funcition. I wish Real Band had a great playlist function like the Cakewalk .