Omar, If you don't use quantization or other automations you'll need to play that entire piece without the sustain pedal. All the sustain pedals does is send MIDI messages to hold and then release that note, which can be any duration. Each note needs to be played as legato as you possibly can, to the length you want to capture. Hold that 8th note for exactly half as long as a quarter note, etc. The better you do this, the less post-processing you'll need to do. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar Binno To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:37 AM 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