This is great! A decent rhythm program that combines ease of use and advanced creative control is long overdue. Cheers, mate! I haven't been able to spend a good long spell with this yet, but a few points do come to mind off the bat which go towards 'ease of use'. I think some are variants of what has been said before, but what the hell.... 1) Some sort of roll function. I haven't been able to get drums or cymbals in quick succession to sound 'right'. Along the same lines, what about a flan (I think that is what it is called - a quick double hit at the beginning of a roll) function? Would some sort of accent feature be possible, similar to that on the BOSS DR-5? Apart from the mechanical quality of quickly-repeated hits, the lack of variation in the intensity of the hits is another give-away that the sound is not 'live'. 2) A cut-off for open hi-hats/rides/crashes so that they don't bleed into the next hit. Maybe also a pedal hi-hat as that seems to be one way of choking an open sound? 3) Volume control. Multiple samples per instrument are a pain to produce, but is there a way of incorporating them into a slider function for the individual instruments? Once the export to AIFF function comes along, volume can be altered after importing a file for each instrument into a sequencer, but this won't address the issue of the variations in sound - and it would be rather laborious. On the same topic, what about a volume swell/decrease function applicable to all instruments over a given period of beats? The ability to draw the increase/decrease with the mouse would be great. 4) Given that one of the features of db is the ability to edit sounds, would a web-based library of user sounds be possible? This might reduce the burden of programming by allowing users access to sound variations which mimic a certain function of the software - ie. accents, etc. That said, I admit to not knowing exactly what is possible with the drum editor. This idea comes from the page that Johnson has for J-Station user patches. 5) Not exactly 'ease of use', but... panning - so that the instruments can be placed anywhere in a stereo field to replicate the spread of a drum kit. Keep up the good work and thanks again for giving us the chance to offer comments on a very good program! Cheers, Pascal