Hi Vance, > Have you ever got a band to play with a metronome click ? > I tried it once and the result was terrible. They were > concentrating on the click so much that their playing suffered. > For the record, I am a drummer and I play live on stage with a click (generated via midi from Logic) with my band all the time. I get the click in my headphones and the bass player has it coming out of his monitor on stage (at a slightly lower level). Now I know recording is a different story. I have been in a studio situation and recorded with a click without problem, but it wan't with a full live band all at once. Perhaps they would all need some of the click in their headphones. And yes, this would probably result in a very stilted performance. Drummers, in general, are used to playing (practicing) with clicks so it is not so foreign to them (us). But a whole band playing to a click might yield unnatural results. So yeah, I guess if the whole band was going to record together live and if they weren't used to playing along with click tracks, and depending on the program material of course; they would likely be better served playing "wild". > With the hi-hat count in you can still edit successfully > I think it's a stretch to hope that they would stay locked to the original tempo for more than a few measues, or maybe a minute or so at best. Still though, if they were disciplined players and the edits were just "broad stroke" rough cuts; it could probably work fine. But I wouldn't count on quantizing any midi along with it. -- Eli Krantzberg Nightshift Orchestra / Almat Productions http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com