[Lostpines]

Thanks for the prompt response.

What is Notation really selling, and what are customers looking for?
There are many MIDI editing tools out there, and because music is irregular and complex, they all do a poor job of transcription, then rely on the user spending hours of manual editing. As soon as you tell me to spend time in an editor, Composer becomes no different than twenty other competing products. The whole mystique of Composer is to magically convert MIDI to sheet music with some configuration tweaks, but otherwise no manual intervention. There's a 2 GHz computer sitting on my desk waiting to do this so I don't have to. Snapping to performed attack does not require editing, and improves the user experience.

I've been thinking about the beat synchronization problem for the last few days as I've observed what this software does. I already have a number of techniques Composer is not doing that will likely result in significant improvement in beat alignment during transcription. My background is in physics, electrical engineering, computer design, and of course, music theory. Would it be possible to brainstorm with a couple of the software developers?

Perhaps it would be better to take this discussion off line. You have my email address.