Hi Fred,

I should have known that your keyboard was involved in "Spring." It is a powerful argument for getting one and hooking it up to my computer...once I have figured how to do it without moving it to the basement and re-wiring everything or adding a room to keep it within hailing distance of the machine.

Regarding vibrato: Do you do that from your keyboard, too? It is pretty hard to envision playing and handling a mod wheel too, so thinking you might have done it in Composer with the graph over notes palette, I experimented a bit. I was surprised and delighted to find that I could get vibrato from a GM violin. I also tried a flute and clarinet and horn. Really nice. I guess I was surprised because I had experimented with this feature before and didn't find any of the controls that made a difference. I guess I just tried the wrong ones.

Middle of the night and police chasing rang a bell because of a literary, rather than musical, session in and through the town adjoining the college campus, 46 years ago. It was mostly declaiming Shakespeare as we, my roomate and I, dragged a long chain borrowed from a construction site through sleeping neighborhoods, pausing now and again to revisit a condensed Thunderbird. There was also some music, as I now recall--written by Oscar Brand, and never sung so badly by him or anyone else. (Even the thought of that Thunderbird, now, requires a Zantac.)

I suspect your wee hours jam session didn't deserve being chased by police. Quite the opposite of mine.

all best,
mgj