I’m tempted to buy a big iPad Pro to use with Dorico. But I want to draw music, instead of tapping it in. It’s simply a different attitude, and one making one feel the music is actually flowing. Drawing it, instead of entering.
I know that Dorico can’t recognize music handwriting, but there are other ways of drawing music. Piano-roll is one that I don’t dislike, and actually use the most when sketching.
How is it, drawing music in the piano-roll? It would be great if a video could show how it works when actually composing.
I’m in the odd position of finding that my scribbled notation, on paper, is a mix of traditional and graphic notation. I mostly use lines for long notes, and grouped notes for short/fast notes. The groups are more proportional that traditional, since I feel the high number of beams in avant-garde notation incredibly counterintuitive (an airy music passage looking extremely weighty…).
So, I’m not sure that I want to use traditional notation for drawing music. The final representation is what it is: a code inherited, that works very well in communicating multiple dimensions with a single sign. But drawing is a different thing. When thinking to a long note, my brain is never tempted to tell my hand to draw a circle, but a line. If it is a fast passage, it tells it to write several short traits or dots, not a complex system of black circles and crossed beams.
I suspect, therefore, that drawing on graph paper (the piano-roll), while having a traditional score forming before my eyes, would be a more natural experience for me, in the age of the tablets.