Dear All --

FYI, there is another nice, free, stand-alone, software, synthesizer here...

http://www.audio-simulation.com/

...and it is called "DreamStation 1.0" and it is dirt simple to setup and sounds really nice (IMHO).

I just thought to mention it, in case anyone else is wondering.

It seems like this has very little, or no latency, at first check-- which may be due to its design, or the fact that I installed ASIO-4-All or something else, but it performs very nice, whatever the reason.

I may still go the hardware route, with something like the "PianoBox II" or similar.

HTH.

Thanks.

-- Mark Kamoski