Adam, Thanks for your "conductor" dance music generator. After the holiday socializing I finally kranked it up and tested it with a simple microphone patch on a new setup. It sounds great! I'm going to feature it on this week's ChucK show. The new setup is miniAudicle on eMac with Y cable to headphones and split to a patch cable that connects emac headphones out to netbook line-in where edcast broadcasts. I can do it all on the eMac using soundflower but I don't have enough CPU for ChucK *and* MuSE broadcaster, so hence the use of two computers. Oh, by the way to make ChucK use relative paths you just put a dot in front of the filename, like this: "./dir/filename" instead of "/dir/filename", and in miniAudicle you go to preferences to select the current directory. I modified you code to work this way by addind the dots in the right files. Do you have any biographical information for me to read or paraphrase as I introduce your program? Anything would be good... Thanks, Les (Inventor)