hi christian... > i need to buy a software midi patch editor for my studio at uni. > i really need suggestions on this .... well, this might be a bit too lo-tech for your needs... Sound Studio 2.1 <http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio/> but it does have a nice feature set and a bargain price... it's fully functional for 14 days as well in demo mode. It will import through QuickTime so basic editing of midi shouldn't be a prob (but I haven't gone that route myself, so I could be blowing smoke) ...still, the price of trying it is right and at last glance it was only about 50 bucks US. Rare is the day I don't use it but I'm just a happy consumer, not a salesman... Richard Bright Herzogenburg, Austria ps. just heard a good one from the land of Oz: "why is the Australian man is like a wombat?: he eats roots shoots and leaves." (for the uninformed, "root" has a completely different meaning in the lingo downunder)