Hi Len, Loads some drums as we are going to do a simple drum sequence example. 1: press shift F4 this will put you on Step size tuplet, Now don't press enter on the check box as we are leaving it unchecked on this example. 2: whilst still on step tuplet press S for 16th as we are going to use sixteenths in this example, 3: hit the note on your keyboard the corresponds with your bass drum, that will put a bass hit on the first beat, 4: to move to the second beat press key A three times as we have it set to sixteenths, 5: now hit the note on your keyboard that corresponds with your snare drum, you have now put a snare on beat 2, 6: to move to the third beat press key A three times as we have it set to sixteenths, 7: again hit the note on your keyboard the corresponds with your bass drum, that will put a bass hit on the third beat, 8: to move to the fourth beat press key A three times as we have it set to sixteenths, 9: once again hit the note on your keyboard the corresponds with your snare, that will put a snare on beat 4, 10: To take you back to the beginning of the bar so you can listen, just go to the number row and press 1 twice then finally hit space bar and the sequence should play. I'm using Sonar 7 hopefully nothing has changed in the Step Record on the latest versions. When sequencing other instruments using step record, I go to the event view to put in the note lengths, this is not necessary with the drums sequencing. Steve W From: Len Viljoen To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 7:20 AM Subject: [ddots-l] step sequencer hi all. i still can't get the step sequencer to work. when i press the caketalking shortcut keys they don't work. enter doesn't work on the checkboxes and the letters for the different types of notes doesn't work either. i tried pass key through but nothing works. can someone please assist me? kind regards len viljoen __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5741 (20101229) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5741 (20101229) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com