ampfixer
How do you input that material Jerry? Is it a combination of playing and staff view?
It's really nice, however you do it.
Composing and sequencing have merged into a more or less single activity. I input most of my music using a mouse and popping notes onto the staff view. I can do it this way because I am an experienced pianist and classically-trained composer/theorist, so I know what I want to hear and how to get the sound I want. Sometimes I'll play parts in on the keyboard, usually percussion parts, but all the orchestral parts and synth parts are entered via the mouse in staff view. The expression, phrasing and articulation happen in the event list by using an abundance of program changes and MIDI controllers to change attack and release times, patch changes, and of course velocity, note-length and location of notes relative to the beat. It's a long and slow process but I've been doing it this way for decades so it has become somewhat spontaneous.
Thank you for listening, much appreciated!
Jerry
www.jerrygerber.com