This problem I'm having appears to be the way my machine is choosing to handle MIDI files in Cakewalk. I need to give you a bit of background so you can have a better understanding of what's going on. Periodically, my machine has a problem handling large Cakewalk files that have lots of MIDI tracks. I get distortion and audio dropouts, for example. But there are other occasions where this doesn't occur, even when working on the same exact file. Now, audio files in CW are a different matter -- it