Hi, Thanks Mikhail for all these notes and to others on the list for their suggestions - I'll give them a try soon. I just have Finale finding the maestro font which i put in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF then i modified the wine conf file to look in that folder I tried to get the midi working by putting the FINMIDI .dll files from finale into /.wine/c/windows/system and now get the message in finale: MIDI is not active unless you have Microsoft's Multimedia extensions loaded. (The Multimedia extensions come with windows 3.1). i wonder is trying to load these extensions in wine the correct approach to getting the midi working?? any thoughts? also i just tried finale 2002 but tip of the day seems to stop the system responding thanks, rob