For those users like myself that DO read/write standard notation, and try to include DB into that context, it'd be a shame to not use time signatures. I'd probably look for a different sequencer. With the current version of DB, you can still doodle all you want, knowing nothing about time signatures and music structures. I don't see how the time signatures get in the way. And to suggest to a serious composer or recording artist to just "stick two 4/4 bars together and change the tempo to mimmick 5/4" is completely ridiculous. (No offense intended at all, Adrian... I just got a good laugh out of that.) Actually another thing Adrian said struck me as a little odd-- a request to add more subdivisions of each beat. THIS is where a tempo change, and an understanding of time sigs, would apply. In standard notation it is EXTREMELY rare to find anything smaller than a 64th note. Even in very fast and complex Indian tabla rhythms, each beat rarely gets subdivided smaller than that. They just change the time signature. And one last thing-- 6/8 is different than 3/4, which is different than 12/16. At least to someone that's reading it from a sheet of music. If I already have something written for which I want to use DB to build a drum track, and which shifts between the feel of 6/8 and the feel of 3/4, I want to see that on the screen in DB-- I don't want to have to guess which section I'm in by looking at where the snare is in that measure. So, I vote for keeping time signatures. Thanks, DC