Hi guys,

thanks a lot for taking the time for your elaborate replies.

I read your suggestions and descriptions very carefully - it's' really interesting to get to know the different approaches you have. But I am sure that I will benefit from either one; in fact I already tried some of the things you mentioned in order to find out what suits me best.

Inspired by JimFogle's opinion I meanwhile figured out how I can solve my "crescendo problem': Since these crescendi will not be changed once I threw them in, I can prepare the volume track of one horn MIDI track first, then copy its nodes to the other horn MIDI tracks and render the four horn section tracks (be it EQed like JimFogles wrote or' dry' like Guitarhacker prefers it) afterwards. Either way I can change their final volumes during the mixdown to any value without having to take care of the crescendi.

So thank you very much again.

Stefan