Hi David,

I spent the Christmas period this year trying to get a new sound card to work. If I loaded anything but the MS Wavetable Synth, the computer crashed after a few seconds of playback, and MSWT--for some reason I've yet to fathom, on my machine makes virtually any instrument sounds like a caricature of itself. With that card sent back to the factory, I was fortunate enough to get the old 1999 OEM card re-installed.

I played your Overture using one of the hardware synths, and it was more fun than a bowl full of jelly. I particularly like your inclusion of the organ, and the electric bass works for me. The slow strings, however, didn't work as well, so I tried changing pre-set 50 to 49 (the Composer numbers) and they worked for me too.

It would be interesting to see your adaptation of "A Christmas Carol," complete with overture.

all best,
mgj