Well, I AM an expert at midi - that is at the very specific midi thing I do create midis - it's called midi for idiots.. I SCAN music in and edit the millions of mistakes the scanning software makes by moving individual notes to where they are supposed to be according to sheet music. The trick is to purchase books that are out of copyright (I have lots of songbooks circa 1900) so that you aren't violating such things - at least as much as possible!

I've tried sequencing but I've never been happy with my personal forays into sequencing accompaniments (although they tend to sound more traditional because I can't add all that fancy stuff like Cecil Sharp does). Guess it would help if I were a musician!!

Now where was I? I hate to admit that I've never checked any of the midis or abcs I've converted... I just figured if it worked they were o.k... I only started messing the abcs because I've been thinking about posting abcs of tunes (at least the ones I've done) at my site in addition to the midis. I thought I'd experiment and see how well they turn out and see how much server space they take before investing a lot of time.

I find midi much easier but musicians seem to prefer abc to midi. The thought of converting all the midis is somewhat overwhelming - but if I found a good tool that worked well I might not mind. (Though I'm beginning to think I've lost that.) Is there a good tool to convert midi to abc?

But I'm also beginning to think that there are enough abc sites perhaps I should just refer people to them!