I'm not a keyboard player, but I am a musician, and a keyboard player friend of mine is in the process of setting up Linux to do what you are talking about. If I understand this correctly, you are talking about a program that takes MIDI input from a keyboard, and can both record it, and can turn it into sheet music. If that's correct, I think your friend should check into Rosegarden - http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ And I quote - "Rosegarden is a professional *audio and MIDI sequencer*, *score editor*, and general-purpose *music composition and editing environment*. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments." It is designed to work with a program named Lilypond ( http://lilypond.org/web/), which is music notation software. The output from Rosegarden can be sent to Lilypond. These are both open source, and most of the major distros have a version of it in their repositories. (The Rosegarden site mentions Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu, PCLinux, and RedHat). Cheers, Charlie Obert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060422/fd0eee14/attachment.htm