Actually, I was happy with VSC but when I bought a new desktop with vista 64 I didn't know that vsc wouldn't work with it. If I could have bought TTS-1 separately I would have. My apologies if I'm confusing anyone. I know Music Creator is a sequencer and apparently Russell does too, that's why I didn't mention it. Sound is a very subjective thing. What sounds good to you may not sound good to me. I'm a sax player so no matter what horn sample or product you use, I'm not going to be satisfied with the sound. I play dinner music in restaurants and bars for a living. A mixture for real tracks and midi does a great job for that situation. I also play standard midi files for my pop music. For live performance, I can't find a better product than VSC. That's why I still use xp on my laptop for gigs. I mentioned this in other forums but get more compliments from other musicians about the sound of BIAB than I do from customers. Those compliments go back 10 years, way before real drums, real tracks, etc.. If I'm going to record, I want the best sounds that I can afford. When playing live, if you have a singer or horn player in front of those backing tracks people are concentrating on the live aspect of the performance. Lets face it, if were a hot 21 year old chick, wearing a mini skirt, singing Rubber Duckie through my Gameboy, I'd sound great as far as all the guys in the bar are concerned. Thanks for the banter! lol

Jacob

Dell Studio 16 Laptop i7 with 256 gig SSD
BIAB, Reaper, Encore, Sibelius
Roland SD-50