Cheating? If you can figure out how some of these new fangled arrangers work, that sure can't be cheating. Some of that stuff takes as much, if not more skill and/or talent than reading music and making the keys sounds like something recognizeable. I would only consider SMFs as cheating if you were standing there pretending to play to convince someone that you were playing.

I'm #98 - let's hit 100 !
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