Hi everybody! First of all, a little bit of <background> Every time I go back to my hometown (as I'm studying in another city), I use to rehearse (and sometimes play) with a Big Band there. Open to everyone, but composed mostly of folks between 14 to 30 years old (and one of more than 80), it also plays non-jazz songs, as Maxwell Smart's one. </background> <my wish> I would like to arrange another one for them, starting from a midi file. In my m$ era, I used to do it with encore. Now, as a GNU/Linux user, I would like to do it with my beloved OS :-), printing the final score with lilypond. </my wish> <what I have tried> First of all, I tried with Rosegarden-4 0.9.6 (this one and all apps shipped with Debian Sarge in December). I learned how to start timidity so as to use it with Rosegarden (no MIDI cappable soundcard here, just the VIA 8235), imported the midi, and played it. When I tried to start the arrangement, I became a little confused with Rosegarden's Note Editor (well, I'm switching from another program, I think it's normal). But it also happens that I'm a memeber of the spanish Rosegarden's Manual translation team. And I read (and traslated :-) ) that RG was thinked more as a sequencer than a music notation editor. OK then, I asked in Lau-es for a notation editor and they told me about NoteEdit. Once apt-getted NE 2.5.3 from my DVDs set (no broadband at home), I found that it can't import midi files, just musicXMLs. Well, no problem, I thought, I re-opened RG, imported the midi an exported it to musicXML. Once again in NE, the final score doesn't look OK (for example, the 4/3 notes appear as rests and quarters). OK, perhaps I am missing something. </what I have tried> <"OK. What the... do you want?"> Comments, suggestions, etc. are more than welcome. If any of you does something like this (preparing scores for other musicians), the better. And if any of you happens to have switched from encore, well, then I'm a lucky guy :-) </"OK. What the... do you want?"> Cheers, Damian.- Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '86, Windows '95. Grafitti en Niceto Vega 5940, Buenos Aires. De una foto de Mario Gallo.
