Yes you would. The idea is that the note length is determined by the distance in time between note on and note off. So, if you use sustain to achieve the note durations, the MIDI note event values will be wrong. K. -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Omar Binno Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 11:37 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] sibelious and notation Okay, so I was reading the sonar tutorials on staff notation, and it's telling me that I need to play notes without sustain if I want to have accurate note durations for printing. My question is; if I were to print the music out through sibelious, would I still have that problem? I don't really feel like re-recording an entire song from scratch. Thanks. Omar Binno www.omarbinno.com