Yesterday one of my 7 year olds showed me her music book. Strangely in French and Vietnamese. Had all the classics, When the Saints, Frere Jaques, Auld Lang Syne. Kids are still learning to read music. Drive past the keyboard shops here at 18:00 and you'll see a class being run with abut 10 keyboards being played at once.
 
Meng's a classically trained pianist according to Noel, so the importance won't be lost on him. Also BandLab was Namm's Educational Software of 2018, so software for music education isn't lost on him either.
 
I really hope they return to Overture's developer and revisit their previous arrangement.
 
 
 
 

Kamikaze
 
I really hope they return to Overture's developer and revisit their previous arrangement.

+1000

Yes, agree on the Sonic Scores/Overture partnership.

Bandlab's modus operandi so far has been to acquire companies.
 
Perhaps that will be the ultimate solution.  There is no inherent reason why the notation function must be embedded in the DAW.  But with the collection of functions that Bandlab is crafting, one would think that there should be a notation capability somewhere in that collection.

cparmerlee
 There is no inherent reason why the notation function must be embedded in the DAW. 

I respectfully disagree...the notation function was there long before audio functions.  I've been making the case for years that notation was there before the DAW and notation will still be around after the DAW is gone.  Staying current with Notation would insure the software would always be current and have a market...thus more profitable. Can I get an AMEN!

Jimbo 88
I respectfully disagree...the notation function was there long before audio functions.  I've been making the case for years that notation was there before the DAW and notation will still be around after the DAW is gone.  Staying current with Notation would insure the software would always be current and have a market...thus more profitable. Can I get an AMEN!

I think if an external Notation tool could read Cakewalk project files - the MIDI and notation relevant portions anyway - I'd be good with that. There are a lot of good notation packages available already, we just need a project import function in one of them (or proper export from our DAW to the current MusicXML).

Jimbo 88

cparmerlee
 There is no inherent reason why the notation function must be embedded in the DAW. 

I respectfully disagree...the notation function was there long before audio functions.  I've been making the case for years that notation was there before the DAW and notation will still be around after the DAW is gone.  Staying current with Notation would insure the software would always be current and have a market...thus more profitable. Can I get an AMEN!

It makes no difference where the function is in code.  What matters is how seamless it is to the user.  There is no reason a separate notation package cannot be highly seamless with the DAW.  After all, this is the kind of thing Rewire has done over the years.  Presonus is going that route and it seems to have some merit, although much higher integration is needed in that case.

Melodyne has proved that audio isn't an inherent feature of a DAW too. Just use ARA to to integrate it seamlessly.

cparmerlee

Jimbo 88

cparmerlee
 There is no inherent reason why the notation function must be embedded in the DAW. 

I respectfully disagree...the notation function was there long before audio functions.  I've been making the case for years that notation was there before the DAW and notation will still be around after the DAW is gone.  Staying current with Notation would insure the software would always be current and have a market...thus more profitable. Can I get an AMEN!

It makes no difference where the function is in code.  What matters is how seamless it is to the user.  There is no reason a separate notation package cannot be highly seamless with the DAW.  After all, this is the kind of thing Rewire has done over the years.  Presonus is going that route and it seems to have some merit, although much higher integration is needed in that case.

Sorry, but I do not at all agree to this! As long as you think of a simple notation paralleled to the MIDI note values there is no problem (only the MIDI has to be saved). As soon as the user makes changes to the notation by hand not reflected in the MIDI data (short duration values, bindings, heavy swing, ...), these changes have to be saved. Thus it is more complicated to synchronize saving when the function is not integrated!

ptheisen

Kamikaze
 
I really hope they return to Overture's developer and revisit their previous arrangement.

+1000

I would love to see that as well. It is the missing piece in Sonar for me.