![]() Notation has long been integrated into recording programs simply as another tool to manipulate the midi. There are very very basic tools from Sibelius built into Photoscore, but if you want to do the real stuff you have to move the file over to Sibelius. I think the Protools/Sibelius combo will be the first to see real progress in the combo arena, yet I have no doubt that it will only be integrated as a 'stepping stone' to using Sibelius for the full-blown notation.this is kind of what Sibelius did with Photoscore. None of them are particularly good, or even in the same ballbark as Finale and Sibelius.but that's not really very possible, as DAW and notation have been developed independently. have the score view and some editing as well, but are they any good? I know applications like Cubase, Sonar etc. My views on this are probably anachronistic, but I'm just curious if included score editing these days is actually a worthy feature for those who like this kind of thing? It's one of the reasons at the time that I looked for an affordable specialised score editor like Melody Assistant because I just didn't like how Cakewalk (I think it was) handled things. have the score view and some editing as well, but are they any good? It's been quite a while since I looked at the functionality in any of the big guys, but way back when I looked at it, I thought the functionality wasn't that great. and I'm not using much midi these days-I like to commit to audio right off, otherwise I get mired in possibilities.ĭo any of the hosts that include score notation/editing actually do a good job of it?Īpplications like Melody Assistant and Harmony Assistant started primarily as score editors that have developed over time to include more and more features - very affordable too.īut I'm imagining REAPER development is probably not going to put the focus required to achieve more sophisticated score editing, so are we just hoping to be able to get a staff/score view of our midi parts? Personally, I read and write music, but don't really look to my DAW for notation anymore. There is still the issue of overlap of notes (although that currently exists to a lesser extent) which could be made easier if the notebars were thinner, as in the first example. I don't know how readable either would be. Or you could color code the sharps and flats: I suppose you could have logic to keep the accidentals from piling up, or you could make them much smaller. It could work, but the last chord shows just how bad the display could get: ![]() I picked a nasty case-there is a key signature, but none of the notes are in the key. This shows a piano roll on a staff, with actual accidentals. The big problem I can see is the accidentals. So I started wondering about putting piano roll on an actual staff. Even when I play something that's straight up not in the tempo of the song, it's still often easier to find and edit a note from the score view. That said, I have always done note editing in the score editor, even though it usually looks like a mess. But what is THAT functionality doing in my DAW? This is not so true if I'm writing for multiple instruments and have to print parts, with transpositions, etc. Even so, I've found after dozens of scores, I'm still _way_ faster writing music by hand. Every serious bit of scoring I've done, I've given up on the midi data early on, and dragged everything from the part box. I've used Emagic Logic since Notator V.2, and from my experience, trying to get it to interpret MIDI performances as notation data is a RPTA, and sometimes quite impossible. Got a quarter note triplet, the last of which is tied to an eighth (think about the logic for ties!) followed by two sixteenths-correctly interpreting and displaying that is crazy! Ties, dotted notes, triplets, grace notes, between-staff beaming, it's all an incredible amount of work, and so often not in tandem with the midi. The logic for interpreting rhythms is complex, even for the user, in my experience. The logic for beaming is complex-you have to decide what to do when notes are different enough in pitch that the beam won't work. The logic for putting stems up or down is complex. ![]() Regular notation makes chords more readable by putting some notes to the left, and some to the right of the stem. Are we editing or writing parts? If we want to write parts, it's a huge undertaking.
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