ok i know you're looking for linux software.
but.

let me assure you.
ableton live is the single most intuitive, quickest route to music enjoyment software has to offer.

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I hadn't heard of it...

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You're educating me now. I've never heard of Rosegarden. Finale imports MIDI files, though they may not separate into the treble and bass clef like you want, and it may take some post-import configuring to get the sheet music looking the way you want (we found that the treble and bass clefs overlapped on the layout, so we had to click and drag them apart for a nice visual).

I'll have to check out this Rosegarden software when I'm over sometime.

~ J.W. Baker

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I get the feeling from my initial reading that the MusicXML import/export format will carry the notation information more faithfully than MIDI--it's worth a try. You could export something from Finale to MusicXML and see how well they play together.

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