WOW......pretty sweet James Thanks very much, I'll have to give it a try Wednesday afternoon (since i have a huge paper due Wed morning and every time I open up Sonar, you can count out 2 hours while I learn and mess around) so I'll get back to you and let you know then.
I think the main problem is that I was getting sound from playing the piano roll like a piano I guess with the mouse cursor and expecting to be able to record what I played. Obviously not a great flowing way to play music by clicking the mouse but just wanted to figure out how it worked. Now I'll try your way...........btw, I love the pics : )
Torpid-x ...........yeah thanks..........I have had the MIDI track "ummuted" for lack of better words the whole time. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Thanks for the help everyone, you;ll hear from me again if there's any problems. ; ) BJ