Yes, I also posted this in the DirectX forum, but it applies well here, and most of the DirectX forum goers don''t seem to delve much into DirectMusic authoring. Now I don''t have the Downloadable Sounds Level 2 document, as I haven''t decided whether to shell out the money for it, but I was fairly sure I had this right. If not, let me know. Let''s say I have a wave sample of a pipelike instrument with an embellishment at the beginning and a pitch falloff at the end. I want the sample to play such that it first plays the embellishment, leads into the sustained note, loops over the note until the note is released, and then ends with the falloff. The problem is, I can''t get DirectMusic to play the falloff. I import the WAV into a DLS collection in Producer, set the loop points, check "Loop" and "Loop and Release", and make an Instrument using the sample. I tried setting the Release Articulation to an obscenely high duration. But when the note is released, it just stops playing; it never reaches the part after the loop region. The DLS level 2 specification looks very versatile, so I''d assume that it would support something like this. Sample treatment like this is common in many synthesizers and sound modules. Any ideas?

Thanks Kenbar, I''ll look into both options, though for the latter I suspect that my Hercules card doesn''t support soundfonts. Thanks again!