Got your reply guys. Thanks for the information. Greatly appreciated. As I always say, this forum enables me to get good tips from seasoned pros and more experienced users in the Music production / Computer arena. That's so important to many of us gigging musicians kinda getting started and wetting our feet (so to speak) into the Home studio vibe.

Hey Ryzard, I have a Mcafee anti virus running on this Dell Latitude 610 that I have. The sites are go to are mainly Yahoo, hotmail, Gmail and ofcourse music websites. Don't really go on any other site..at least hardly. As you mentioned about the fact that you have no anti virus and firewall and thus you are very cautious as to the sites you go to, I was just wondering. I say this because, man, I tell ya, you never can tell. It sounds kinda risky in my opinion. My windows fire wall is also on.

I will load up the Cubase sx3 soon and will let y'all know how it works. Ryzard, it is interesting that you mentioned REASON because in my "live" gigs, I use mainly my Yamaha Mottif ES7. I play lots of Ballads, Jazz and at church, a Lot of Praise and Worship music. I need to have more tones at my disposal, more Electric Piano, Rhodes, Pads, strings, and horn-like tones, not forgetting nice and strong Gran/ Acoustic piano tones. The Yamaha Mottif ES7 tones are great but I need much more. I have been reading up on Reason. Would Reason running on a Laptop with an M-Audio Fast Track interface hooked up to my Motif give me a whole lot more options, tones-wise? I need that big sound..like the Pros...ofcourse.............lol.

Any feedback to this post would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks as always.

Jacobins