A work in progress, from my alter-ego, Mz. Aliena Voz using MuseScore and Matt Tytel's wavetable synth, Vital.
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https://forum.vital.audio/t/experiments-in-vital-with-musescore-as-a-daw-sort-of/15053
Experiments in Vital with Musescore as a DAW (sort of)

Coming from a generation who experimented, arranged, and wrote music by ear and on paper, I have played around with various staff and guitar tablature software before investing in MuseScore (FOSS) and Guitar Pro 8 (proprietary software), as my two go-to software tools. MuseScore 4 seriously elevated their game with extensive VST support and control. MIDI instrument I/O was good, and now I’ve been experimenting with Anthem v5 (proprietary software) which can accurately transcript guitar and keyb...

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@muiren this is some cool stuff.

I'm not shure devs like @tantacrul imagined someone to take #musescore and widen it into a #DAW, but that's the beauty of #OpenSource:

  • Noone prevents you from modding it so far...

@kkarhan @tantacrul

Thank you.

I have Reaper and Ableton Live licenses, but find arranging, experimenting, and composing in MuseScore is more naturally musical.

That may be a perception born of my age and autism. I'm 67 and started playing music as therapy in the mid-1960s, starting with acoustic and expanding into experiment electric in the early 70s.

@muiren @tantacrul I mean, Choose the Tool that you feel comfy with does espechally apply with creative software.

I think that #MuseScore is moving in the right direction and for those interested in composing and notation, it's certainly a good & free option to start if they don't have prior experience with Sibelius, Dorico or even SCORE.

Thus it makes sense to work towards expanding MuseScore similar to how Sibelius + ProTools & Dorico + Cubase do integrate well.

  • After all, the whole integration aspect is why people get really entrenched into some vendor ecosystems like Adobe, Steinberg, Apple and Blackmagicdesign...

For me it looks quite logical to go from a Notation Software to a DAW that can take the created score or even parts and turn it into a song, offering more options than just playback of the score with like NotePerformer...

I wounder how other musicians like #JycRow do their workflow.

Cuz being able to make a track in 3 hours time limit does require one to have basically routine experience in their toolchain...

Jyc Row - The Sphinx

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@kkarhan @tantacrul
When I've spoken to other MuseScore users and devs about using it this way, they've been less than charitable in their opinions.

I'm trying to figure out how to more seamlessly move between MuseScore and Ableton/Reaper.

It maybe that I'm missing something, but I unlike Scaler, another ideation/composition software tool, I can't treat MuseScore as a VST inside these larger DAW frameworks.

Perhaps it can be addressed programmatically in Reaper via a script, but that level of coding kung fu is beyond me, and I'd need to hire someone to collaborate in testing the concept feasibility.

@kkarhan So Jyc Crow is a solo artist writing sound score accompaniment for visual media?

I don't work alone by choice. It's because music as a folk culture has devolved into hyper-individualistic competitive capitalism, its only purpose to be impersonally consumed in a cultivated for-profit, para-social relationship.

If I'd been born 20 years later, it's doubtful I would ever have learned to play.

When I was introduced to music, most aspects were deeply social, every song shared had a story of who they learned it from, and how they personally changed or added something to it.

That shared experience was at first my only way to connect with people. That culture has been deliberately destroyed, and now all I meet are neoliberal frenemies, competitors, predators who claim it's human nature.