![]() I often (but not always) work in an incremental "rinse and repeat" fashion. Faster than using Notion on the desktop, Sibelius, Finale, Musescore, or anything else :-) I find it extremely easy to get the basic structure, melody and harmony down in Notion for the iPad very quickly. I started it last week, and I'm about 80 bars in already. That way the human element, the several app's unique compositional approaches and instruments can be - I'm currently working on a complete 3 movement violin concerto. With that in mind, Notion can be targeted for example by Xynthesizer or a Firo loop, and, when back in the foreground, be filled with notes, or, optionally, an armed 'control' track from a daw, prepared w/ midi in from another app and midi THRU and 'virtual out'. And they lack proper midi implementation. The thing with most of the composing apps is however, they aren't active in background mode. I can add several tracks, and overdub etc. Firo, YouCompose and MTH and others have options for that. Now, I'd like to 'record' the 'performance' in a daw, having activated a midi track. Notion lets me do that, Firo as well (in it's looper). What might be possible and desirable in the first place, is to play in notes with a keyboard, virtual or hardware. The apps available to me in this regard are Notion, Mapping Tonal Harmony, YouCompose, Firo (Fiddlewax Pro), Arpeggiators, other virtual controllers like Soundprism etc., and the Daws. On a second train of thought, what I'd like to achieve is a consistent composing flow with midi. If you take a straight midi track, notes, duration, etc., into a DAW, how do you make it sound less like a machine, and more like a piece of music? I'm waiting for Auria Pro to have a go at this, but thought I'd ask to see if there was brilliant insight available here. But this seems somewhat backwards.Īnyhow, I'm assuming some folks here have done this. I was told by a composer friend that it's more normal to take a piece of music recorded in a DAW, and export it into notation software. Also, I'm not sure how you associate a particular midi track with a particular instrument. When I play it in Notion, it's really just a way to hear what the piece could sound like, but it is of course lacking a lot in dynamics. But I'm not quite sure how you would take the output from it in midi format, and import that into something like Cubasis or the coming Auria Pro, and make it sound good. I write away from the instrument at times in Notion, which is a fun and interesting exercise, getting me away from habitual routes we all develop as players. ![]() My work so far has simply been to go from my iKeys keyboard, into thumbjam, into Auria, or from my Alesis Percpad through the same route.
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