The big problem, as I see it, that still plagues "traditional" sample libraries that you load in a DAW is a lack of homogeneity between different articulations.
It's just way easier to compose with than dealing with massive templates of samples. IMO, at least where orchestral mockups are concerned, Noteperformer is the way forward. His Star Wars mockups with it are also fantastic. Jeebus! I've never heard such a good fake orchestra in all my life. Also that composition! Zane is one talented individual! Keep your bulllshit away from these discussions. I saw this comment and was curious if it existed so I started a new thread (see how the topic was different so I started a new thread?). Nowhere ANYWHERE did the OP ask about a daw based around sheet music. I fail to see the relevance of this to the original thread. It is too complicated to explain here, of all places. "Please use google if you want to use a DAW based on sheet music instead of a piano roll. Do you know what wasn't helpful? You, at all. Asking a question on a forum brings a human element that interprets the question and answers in ways that google just simply doesn't.
Somebody asking for a DAW based on notation probably knows how to read sheet music.ĭo you know what is helpful? mentioning Overture 5, which most of us had never heard of, and which seems to fit the bill closer than anything else.
A DAW based on notation would save me a lot of time by cutting out the middleman of having to use a notation software and a DAW. I am most comfortable working with music notation.
I'm a professional musician (studio musician) with a degree in music composition. Stuff on Reaper's notation feature (which is not a DAW based on sheet music), and other similarly related things that aren't actually helpful to what I am looking for. I can google "daw based on sheet music" to see if there's anything out there. If somebody is asking a question on a forum, saying "hurr durr just google it noob" doesn't actually do anything. If you read my first post, and the discussion that followed, you could see that we were actually seriously discussing this concept, which was much different from the other thread, the point of which you also missed. I have no idea what your problem is or what the hell is wrong with you but I was actually seriously pursuing this idea. and I can see that actually working, but not many companies willing to offer it.īut now that you said it, it does sound like the kind of thing that would inspire an open source project somewhere. So you're kind of looking for a keyboard that can type in a few whole words instead of individual letters. But what makes this possible DAW difficult to come accross is that theoretically and according to how MIDI works the piano roll is the "base form" of all digital music. No, sure, I perfectly understand it - it'd be extremely useful for musicians, and like you said, you kind of have to figure out how to play a proper wind instrument on a piano, which is clunky. But if I could use my primary instrument for entering midi, good lord would my productivity skyrocket. This is fine, that's how they're designed. DAWs are built around midi instruments, which are based on piano.
It's kind of like somebody who is proficient at a professional level on a wind instrument using a piano that they are much less than mediocre at. All notation software works through midi, just with an interface that is much more friendly to people who have used notation their whole lives. Like.piano roll makes my blood boil because it's really clunky. The point isn't to not use midi, the point is that there are quite a few people who aren't really that thrilled with using piano roll, and for the most part do all their writing in notation. I'm over 99% sure that it doesn't really exist, because it would be heavily impractical and aimed at a somewhat niche market, as a good portion of people who would benefit don't really need it. I guess I'm really just curious if anybody has made a DAW primarily operated through notation. Everything I arrange is in Sibelius, purely through notation, then I export that midi to REAPER and go from there, usually with recorded instruments. I do virtually no arranging work in a DAW. I know of Logic, REAPER, and several others have a notation viewer/editor, but my understanding was that those were secondary and really for sending things to performers/collaborators. Really more like, a DAW where entering midi data for synths/etc is managed primarily through a notation interface rather than centering around piano roll. Is there a daw that centers around notated music? I don't mean notation software (Finale, Sibelius, etc). Spurred by a misunderstanding on another thread, I am kind of curious if this exists.