I am looking to do some arranging as well as possible re-arranging via
a MIDI-friendly music scoring tool.  I have looked at pure MIDI tools
without the score and rather prefer seeing the notes.  I have messed
with a few already and concluded that simpler is vastly better.

Most of these packages aren't designed with a 20- or 40-note scale in
mind (why should they be?)  There are large numbers of MIDI files out
there that could serve as the core of a re-arrangement.

Thus far I have found that MIDI-to-score converters have loads of
eccentricities.  Much of what would need to be done is simply eliminating
buckets of notes and transposing, but this is tedious with the software
I have tried.

I would be curious as to the view of those who are already in the
trenches doing arrangements.  What is your favored approach?

A. B. Bonds

 [ I use the "piano roll" view of Master Tracks (Cakewalk provides
 [ a similar viewing window) because controlling note duration with
 [ the manuscript window method is too restricted.  -- Robbie