A number of folks have said they like to input melodies via biab using the notation window. I have tried it a couple of times but never successfully. My last try was Birth of the Blues. Lots of dotted 8ths followed by 16ths. I could get quarter notes but that was it. I went back to Sibelius. I don't use the mouse in Sibelius except to change the note values. I enter the melody, save it as a midi file, and import it into biab. If you have a single note melody, the chord wizard doesn't work. I think it would work better with a piano part with both treble and bass.

I have found midi songs already done on the net and even edited them some. If I'm playing with the choir, etc. in church though, I enter from the hymnal. Although I have found some nice arrangements, there's lots of poor quality ones to wade through. This can take a lot of time. If you know chord progression, you will be able to move through everything pretty fast even with Sibelius. I agree that life is a lot easier if you can enter via a keyboard. Wish I could.

Stan

Cornet Curmudgeon