Unfortunately, things are rarely as straightforward as they may appear! “Fabulous!” we all thought back in 1989 when we witnessed our improvised keyboard noodles being instantly converted into notation, “No more spending hours with pen and expensive manuscript paper writing out parts for ‘the talent’ to perform”. Cubase has been able to convert MIDI recordings into such notation, as well as allow the user to enter music in notated form that can then be played as MIDI notes, ever since the very first version.
Printed music, notation, scoring, ‘the dots’ – call it what you will, this method of representing music in a visual form has existed for hundreds of years, and remains the principal written language of music.
