Thank you for the feedback.
 
Now, you got this utterly unschooled guy curious: I thought that, when you had a whole note - semibreve in Italian - and the time signature is, say, 5/4, that is still worth 4/4 and, if you use one, you have an extra quarter to fill in the measure. A 6/8 measure should fit three quarter notes (or any equivalent combination), and I am not sure that you can use a whole note in it at all... 
 
But this is not necessarily relevant to the discussion. For the moment, I am seeing a marked preference for the numeric values. Someone suggested "why not have both"... well, it may or not be a challenge because of how the translation tools work: the "wrong" terminology may end up in a context where it isn't desirable. I'll figure this out when the poll closes.
 
Keep that feedback coming, and thanks again!
 
Stefano Bellezza
Localization Manager

Stefano Bellezza [Cakewalk]
I thought that, when you had a whole note - semibreve in Italian - and the time signature is, say, 5/4, that is still worth 4/4 and, if you use one, you have an extra quarter to fill in the measure. A 6/8 measure should fit three quarter notes (or any equivalent combination), and I am not sure that you can use a whole note in it at all...

Hi Stefano,
You are correct. Whole value has nothing to do with filling the entire measure, although that may happen in the commonly used time signature of 4/4.
Here is a drawing I use in my music classes. I'm sure, it is clear for you.

Time signature determines how many beats within a measure (upper number, numerator) and the value of the beat (lower number, denominator)
So the time signature 5/4 means "there are 5 beats within a measure, and each beat has a value of 1/4". 6/8 means
"6 beats/measure, beat=1/8", and so forth.
In other words, note values are mere fractions, measures are arrays of fractions and time signature determines a size of the array and the time grid.
HTH.

I learned something new today as well
Thanks. Alisa

Stay with numbers it seems to translate across most languages and users. much better visually and space wise then this for a sixty-fourth note (American), or hemidemisemiquaver or semidemisemiquaver (British) 

Thank you all again. I am only sorry to see mostly (only?) feedback from native speakers of English (although, as Wookie's comment stands to demonstrate, this is a further case of the US and the UK being two Countries separated by a common language).
 
And the issue is mostly with languages other than English. So, you Portuguese-, French-, Italian-, etc.-speaking users, we look forward to your comments! :-)
 
Stefano Bellezza
Localization Manager

Ok, a comment from Sweden...
Numbers

Fractions are also used here in Germany.
 

The US way is better for me (whole, 1/2...) because I can't sight read and I never know what "Noire", "Blanche", etc. mean. But maybe there should be a double choice for the French versions because people who have learnt music would certainly prefer "Noire", "Blanche", etc.

Moreover I prefer the "C D E F G A B" international notation to the French "Do Ré Mi Fa Sol La Si Do".

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Moreover I prefer the "C D E F G A B" international notation to the French "Do Ré Mi Fa Sol La Si Do".

Could be a minefield.

For example, to describe Bach's Mass in B minor one could use:

• B minor (English)
• h-Moll (German)
• b (klein) (Dutch)
• ロ短調 (ro tanchō) (Japanese)
• 나 단조 (na danjo) (Korean)
• Si minore (Italian)
• Si mineur (French)
• Si menor (Spanish)
• Si menor (Portuguese)
• Си минор (Russian)
• Si minor (Romanian)
• Σι ελάσσονα (Greek)