Hi, I think this is off-topic here, but I'm trying anyway. I'm learning to play the Flemish bagpipes. I use noteedit to help me study my pieces. No problem here. In a while I have to play together with a clarinet and a sax. The piece I want to play had no lines for clarinet and sax, so with the help of my teacher I transposed some other instruments. Then I played the piece with noteedit. On some places it sounds wrong, so I told my teacher something was wrong. She says that the output of midi does not transpose sounds like clarinet or sax do. I was surprised to hear that so I investigated. I let noteedit play some notes and measured them with my tuner, e.g. when noteedit plays a G with a clarinet-sound I measure a G with my tuner, same with a sax-sound. Then I asked my daughter to play a G on her clarinet, and, to my surprise, I got an F on my tuner. Other notes "behave" the same. I had heard of this fenomenon but didn't understand it then. I tried the experiment with my tuner with rosegarden, with the same results, so I don't think it's the score-editor, but midi. I even tried different sound-fonts with the same results. So my question is, why would a computer sound like a G when I ask to "play a G with a clarinet" when in reality a clarinet will sound like an F when the player sees a G on the score and presses the keys for it. What I mean is, when I copy a score which includes clarinet and sax, and then I play it via midi, it will not sound like when that piece is played with real instruments. So what's the use of midi when it does not play the reality ? Or do you have to be a musicologist just to copy a score, let alone transpose one ? You would have to have two versions of your score : one to play with midi and one to play with real instruments. Any references to this problem will be highly appreciated. If you know a better place to ask this I would be happy to hear about it. I did search with google, but I didn't get answers, but I don't really know how to ask this in google. Regards, Koenraad Lelong. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+help@opensuse.org