Just a question about notation...

I prefer notation for sequencing midi instruments. I like to write out the bassline for use as a guide when composing the drum parts. Even though I play bass quite well, it's easier for me to compose drum parts when I can see the bassline notated on screen.
 
I also give session players charts, tabs, or sheet music so they can get their parts down faster. 
 
 
I will often keep midi horns, strings, and other hard to find instruments even after replacing midi guitar, keys, vocal melody with real players. 
 
The PRV is extremely difficult for me to use in most cases. 
 
Rhythmically, I understand notation much better than blobs. In PRV, it's very difficult for me to tell if I am looking at 4 eighth notes or 4 sixteenth notes because they can be the same size depending on the zoom level. In notation view, the actual note widths are all the same, they're just different symbols. Forget about tuplets. I really need the little "3" under the triplets, or worse the dreaded little "5." 
 
In notation view, notes are beamed and rests are displayed. No such luck in PRV.  
 
The grand staff fits on my screen nicely which keeps me from having to scroll up and down or zoom in/out to get to the notes I want. 
 
If I am writing a part in the key of E minor, notation view will automatically enter an F# if I click on a line or space that represents F. PRV - Not so much. 
 
I can enter a piece of music into staff view about 5 times faster than I can in PRV. 
 
I will use PRV for drum parts, but only with durations turned off. I am seriously considering using the step-sequencer for writing most drum parts.
 
 

PRV is OK if you're working on one track of midi. But if you are trying to work several tracks at the same time you can't beat having the staff view because the you can fit a lot more info into a smaller space, see a clear delineation between instruments and if you're trained to read notation it's easier. To me chords that are made from the notes are more easily discernible. If something has an unwanted dissonance I think you can spot it faster in the staff view.
What I like the PRV for is changing note durations. It's much easier to do that in PRV, with the one drawback at least for me that the fine control of note length is a little hard to judge sometimes.

Bottom line for me is that they both have their usefulness.  

Excellent point, lampshade. I can make sense out of entire scores (except for the damn transpositions). But here's the thing: We need to get beyond the "my way is better than your way" mentality. there are many tools musicians can use. There is nothing inferior about someone who writes music and is notationally illiterate. Paul McCartney, last I knew, still can't read music. I sure as hell ain't going to suggest he start learning. Some people have trouble with notation in the same way that some people have dyslexia, it just doesn't fit their cognitive style. but they may have a superb ear and be stellar musicians and mixers. They don't need to read music. but some of us like to have that tool in our kit. But respect needs to work both ways here. So can the folks who don't use notation also show some respect for the folks who do?