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Hi Rui, I don't know whether it was a bug or a poor set up on my part, but I was only able to run fluidsynth as a DSSI plugin with no problems. When I followed the various instructions of Carl Irwin, it never worked. From the Carla external to the 'inserts' workaround, I couldn't get the routing to work. This was due to my soundcard set up and I wasn't savvie enough to sort it.

This is why my new workflow solves all my problems. The great thing about qtractor is the ease with which one can edit both midi and sound . . . in other words . . . everything. Its so easy to just record and export to Musescore, let that handle the orchestra, then bring it back in to complete in qtractor.

I can't speak for Carl Irwin, but suspect he is over the moon about qtractor's ability to import midi faithfully after he enquired about it recently, because it frees him from using Ardour. I like everything simple - I'm 52 and don't have time for complex workflows. The ability to open midi files in musescore 4 enables me to do all my playing and recording in qtractor . . . . which I now massively prefer to the Cubase (s) I was using for 30 years.

I recently saw a complaint on one of these forums about the "poor state of Linux Audio". I disagree. I can do things now that I could never do in windows . . . . all made possible by people like yourself and others. I discovered this new workflow in the middle of the night - am happy beyond words.

Thanks Rui . . .