This is only partially related to Doggiebox, but it's been quiet here, so I thought I'd post about it anyway. I had been yearning for audio interface for my iBook, and finally settled on a Tascam US-122 (which, having heard Mike Carlyle's excellent results, seemed likely to give good results without breaking the bank). It came with Cubase LE, and I've been having fun poking around with that. One of the things I've been trying to figure out how to do easily is create a "groove map" for a piece has subtle tempo changes so that Cubase will know where those changes occur and be able to use its MIDI quantize functions correctly if I were then to layer MIDI instrument tracks into the piece. So, I've created my DB drum track and have a fine two-channel stereo AIFF that I can import into Cubase. In this I guess I have some advantage over a recording of a real drummer, since I know exactly where and how great all the tempo changes are. Cubase has some kind of "find audio hitpoints" function that's supposed to scan my audio file and figure out where the beats are -- I'm just not sure how well that will work, since there are after all different amounts of drumming at different times and I haven't just got a techno kick drum whacking away at 1-2-3-4 throughout. I was wondering if I might be able to take advantage of DB's clever option to output a MIDI file. If I loaded that MIDI file into Cubase, presumably there's some way for Cubase to pull tempo changes from the MIDI file, and I could use that as a kind of "master" tempo map so that I could later quantize my shaky keyboard playing or whatever. I could just mute the MIDI drum file itself and have audio provided by my AIFF file exported from DB. Any Cubase wizards here have any ideas about how perhaps to approach this? Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea@carlaz.com http://www.carlaz.com/