Stan,
The Archos Jukebox is a very interesting device. I guess there are several different units but I found the MP3 player. Thank you for mentioning it... they even have a model that stores and plays MP3 and CD formatted files.

Danny,
I don't really want to render to CD or MP3... it's time consuming and you have to know what you are doing <LOL>. I have shared some of my tracks in CD format using VSC and the person liked them just fine. But I could tell that they needed some tweeking and I just didn't have time to figure out the details. So playing the MIDI files through a synth does sound like the way to go for me. The RB/SD-2 combination seems like the best approach for my needs.

Robh,
I have basically decided to do what you are doing but include the SD-2 right away since I don't have anything but VSC for the sounds. Now to work out the financing :-)

Gale

Mr. G