I actually came up with this thought yesterday, but I just decided I'd throw it out there to see what people think of such a concept, and to see if there's anyone with the necessary skills to help with it, too, possibly... A set of musical instruments, perhaps starting with a piano for simplicity's sake, that are fully posable with affectors removed and hard limits set that comes packaged with a program to... get this... convert MIDI tracks to pose files. I could do this in Perl, but you'd either need perl to use it or 'd have to put it up through a web interface (and that would get to be a lot of bandwidth). I was thinking if there'sa windows programmer out there or even a Java programmer who'd be up for such a task, I'd be delighted to work with you in building such a project. There are midi-to-sheet-music converters, midi-to-fruityloops concverters, midi-to-MOD converters, and so on, why not a combination prop and MIDI-to-pose converter that actually makes the piano or whatever play? As to other instruments, msot of them would be possible. A guitar would be problematic because there are so many multiple places to play the same note (and it would all have to be done off of morph dials, where a keyboard could be posable keys). The multiple-places-to-play-a-note thing, however, causes problems with easy automatic conversion because when you play a real guitar you kind of play the note in the place most convenient from your prior and to your next note or chord. Chords would be easy though. Theoretically any system like this could even be made to create pose files for a standard or millenium figure to play, too. At least anything with fingers (and in the case of horns, with a blow morph)