Hi Sara,

I have been wondering if your original question maybe against the background of some other scoring and music programs that provide a direct output from the scoring program to a wave file.

I regularly use some of these programs (eg Band in a Box), but in actual fact some write out a midi file and then uses a 3rd party midi to wave program that is integrated with the program to do the conversion from that intermediate midi file to wave.

It all appears to be happening in one easy step, but there is a lot going on behind the scenes.

One of the advantages of separating the steps (as in Composer) and allowing the user to generate the wave file from the midi file, is that the user can select a program that has sound samples that they like. There are many specialised sound samples around, eg pipe organ, orchestral etc, and depending on your need your can utilise these.

Judging by the Composer forum discussion on sound fonts, it appears that there is a lot of interest in people being able to select their preferred midi to wave conversion methods.

cheers ... Clyde