Rick, one thing to bear in mind when looking for software is that some of the midi stuff, like the version of Cakewalk professional that I use is more geared to producing music to be played through midi equipment than the finer points of musical notation although I think they have improved in later versions (I'm using version 3 and I believe that version 9 is either out or will be shortly).

I have not used thier Scorewriter but I would imagine that one is more geared to producing the notation. I would reccomend Cakewalk to anybody - I am a long term computer user (started with CP/M systems as well as Vic20s) and a pretty good "surviver" with them but having said that, I have found their products to be very intuitave. I reccomended Cakewalk to a friend a few days ago. She went for Home Studio 8. I believe it only took her about 15 minutes to get her first song written...

Jon