I had another go last night. Looked at the the sounds in the Roland Performance preset that I had used and how they were set up. Found that each patch was set to volume max and reverb max. Pulled the reverb back to zero and halved all the volumes and saved the Performance preset (Roland refers to a multipatch, multichannel preset as a "Performance" on the XV 3080) and got the sound half decent. Stop most of the hanging notes. Still have a problem with the bass but found using a different patch made a big difference. The synth patches I'm using don't sound right for the song so I need to experiment with some others but thats a matter of listening to the original and finding a reasonable match. So the issue lies with the pacthes and effects on the Roland. Its a matter of finding them all (Its not an easy synth to find your way around) and tuning them appropriately. I'm getting closer. Incidentally, Robh, I have been treating each track as an individual item at this stage. I'll have to balance volumes later once I've got the actual sound right.

cheers

Glenn