I am a newbie to pics and electronics, though I have no problems with assembly programming. I get much more confused by what's going on outside the pic. I would like to interface four 4x4 keypads to one chip that will also do midi output, which i guess means multiplexing of some sort, is this likely to be a terribly difficult project? Can anyone tell me what other parts I will need to get more than one keypad into the pic, or point me at any good resources for this? Is there anyone on here who might have made a keypad-to-midi controller? Also, will it be possible in such a situation to write the firmware so that it can accept multiple simultaneous keypresses across the pads, or is that reall hard? Thanks iain -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body