JerryLan


"to say an artist has to think a certain way is a bit hubristic."

I already appologized.  I meant that "I" think that way. 

By the way if you look up "Staff view" on the search screen you will find a post I made two years ago about the same thing when X1 came out and the input menu was first changed to take away the pictures of notes.  A lot of people agree with me that the staff view is not very good. 

The Staff View is horrible and unusable for me.  Cakewalk has orphaned it.  Sonar will never have usable notation for proper composing.  Sad but true.  At some point I will have to learn another DAW but since that is a time consuming task I just rewire Sibelius.  Horrible, clunky workflow but it's functional.  I'm waiting to see how DP8 for Windows pans out.

JerryLan


Swamptooth, I am exceedingly sorry if your view of world music was insulted.  It won't happen again.  Does anyone know of an add-on to make entering notes on the staff view more intuitive to those of us impaired by western music notation?  It is not optimal to  have to use Finale to score things and import everything over.

Were you thinking of something like this:






This was available from an add-on called Sonar Plus.  BTW - the author of this was hired by Cakewalk, so one would think that it would have made its way into X2 by now. 


I'd like to see a few more buttons for actions which are hidden in menus.

*crickets chirping*

As a classical guy this is what I USED TO DO:

Compose in Finale, transfer MIDI to Sonar

This is what I DO NOW:

Open two paralel viewports, one with notation on top, the other wit piano roll on the bottom. Both are set to the same tracks. That way, whatever I write in piano roll shows up as notation above.

The advantage here is that you can follow harmony and counterpoint while working relatively fast in piano roll.

The disadvantage is if you have more than a simple melodic line as Sonar writes some wacky notation to represent it. Also, if you play your lines , it has a hard time interpreting correctly into notation what you've just played, unless you quantize (even then the end of the notes is always problematic).

There you go - Now pick your POISON :)

 I found writing in Finale first a waste of time. I'd rather be old school and use paper and pencil to sketch. That way I just input the notes once.