Ramy, Dave ment here overlapping notes in duration, so that at the end it looks as if there are multiple voices. It's not a good idea to tell Sibelius that the shortest note is a thirty-second. Listen to your midi file and try to figure out what the shortest note should be. Also, depending on the piece, it could be useful to quantize it by characteristic sections or even by particular sections of tracks. The result will be much more accurate and you will avoid to have to do a lot of editing in Sibelius afterwards. Regards Claudio -----Original Message----- From: sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ramy Moustafa Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 11:14 AM To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sib-access] Re: converting midi file to a profissional score Overlapping notes? Will the magnetic lay out will solve this? If not, so how will I know that I must fix this part? And, if I tell the Sibelius to use the 30 second as the minimum duration will it be ok? I think entering the score as midi is much faster, am I right? I'm writing now another score with more than 50 pages, and really it took me more than 4 days, So am thinking of finding a quicker way :D If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx