That's not a reason - that's an assumption, and not an entirely correct one at that.superblonde wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 6:53 pmTo answer the other question "why use staff?" the reason is because every cue written by anyone here is tonal music.
Lol. You do know that you can scale compress the piano roll in most DAWs as well ?superblonde wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 6:53 pma new diagram was created to vertically compress all notes into a staff, using fewer lines and a key SIGNATURE.
I'm sure it made sense hundreds of years ago when they came up with it. In a time before recorded music when everything had to be written down or it was lost, it's basically a form shorthand for music. It still makes sense if your goal is to have your piece performed by other people that have learned that system.
Besides, It's not a question of which system is superior, it's a question of which method is most suited for the job in hand.superblonde wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 6:53 pmSo... if you are using a DAW piano roll, it is using 1,000+ years-old outdated technology. The even more surprising thing is.. nearly all the self-trained DAW musicians do not know this (that the staff is a compressed and more technologically advanced form of notation for tonal music) and actually believe the DAW piano roll is superior.
A DAW is not encumbered by the same problems that your 600yr old notation system was designed to solve, ( i.e. how to convey the info to other musicians in a more compact and meaningful way ) and the piano roll generally caters far more to the needs of those making self contained production music on a computer screen where it can convey everything including controller data and velocity as well as being able to overlay multiple tracks of midi data making it simple to check if everything harmonizes ( or not ...if that's what you want ) .
Hell, a great many of the software instruments used in production music don't even lend themselves to being notated. If another classically trained musician is going to play on your cue, or you're writing a piano concerto then I can see the benefit but otherwise why not cut out the middle man and just play it in......
In this game where speed and production values are probably more important then the actual notes you play and most of the musical styles needed in production music don't lend themselves to writing it out first then it just sounds like a huge time suck if you're only going to wind up at the same destination by the end. Or maybe you won't even get to the destination because the way that the reference artists are writing it is not your way.
Maybe take up ML's offer of a spot on Taxi TV and debate it.