Hi Chris, This is excellent to hear! I have forwarded your mail to the Ubuntu Studio Users' list, and I invite you to participate in the discussion that'll undoubtedly emerge there.
I'm very pleased to see that Ubuntu Studio is gaining a larger audience, and this will be especially good in that it will increase general public exposure. I have been running Sibelius 4 through Wine for a while now, and whilst some drawing functions (like time signatures) do not work fully, the application is otherwise totally functional, or at least it is with version 0.9.57, with full MIDI I/O support. Moreover, I would like to point you to MuseScore[0], which aims to fill the niche that Sibelius fills in the proprietary world. Version 0.9.1d is available in gutsy-backports, though this demands you download a SoundFont separately (I recommend Fluid[1], the only Free GM/GS font I know of). mScore will be available by default in Ubuntu Studio Hardy, as will Fluid. It is still a bit buggy, but I have got some good usage out of it. Toby [0] http://mscore.sf.net [1] http://tsmithe.users.ubuntustudio.org/fluid.html Debian packages are available in Ubuntu Hardy and Debian unstable, and these should install cleanly on any Debian system, as all they do is install a couple of files to /usr/share/sounds/sf2. See [2]. [2] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fluid-soundfont/ -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing