Dear Mark

Thankyou for taking so much trouble. It's absolutely fascinating.

Yes, it is a Biab-generated 'solo', and I think your diagnosis is a remarkable vindication of Biab's musicality - what you are demonstrating empirically is the mechanics of a 'laid-back' feel. I've just paused in writing this to listen again to the midi file without any score or visual parallel, and I think it sounds very musical, in its type. Wouldn't you agree ?

As to the *.not file / transcription, well, refer to my earlier descriptions of the different ways I might use the file. I find the process you lay out perfectly acceptable if it's what the situation requires. I think in practical terms, I'd probably clone the stave, and have one for sound and one for score, muting or hiding according to my purposes.

It's also interesting that the process shifts all notes equally - so the 'distances between them' are unchanged, and yet the transcription changes. This seems to imply a note's relation to the (metronome) beat is more influential in the transcription than its relation to the preceding and following note(s). Is that right ? If so,(a) is the 'snap to grid' setting relevant, and (b) might a 'tweak' to make the 'distances' relatively more important be a future possibility ?

Intriguing stuff. Thanks again for your trouble.

Ian G.