Thank you, Herbert.

I take on board all the advice that you offer. Some of the advice I may need to research to fill the gaps in my own knowledge.

For example (pardon my ignorance), I thought that 0db was the same as "silence", so the concept of -1db is new to me.

And the only thing I have been looking for for now is that the sounds don't cross into the "red" and produce distortion on cubase.

The sample library that I work with is East West because it is the highest regarded by composers, so it is more likely that I could spend more time refining the sounds.

So thanks again, and maybe some time in the future you and your wife might be able to give it a go.

Adrian