"electronic paper with staff lines that were midi sensitive"
MIDI paper!!!! That's genius! You get the idea William!
I would love to incorporate the technology and at the same time go back to brain --> pen --> paper composing model.
I enjoy the immediacy that software and technology offer (when I'm improvising and creating themes, progressions, melodies) but I still compose the traditional way and then program it. It takes me a weekend to compose a piece and a week to program it...well I could have composed 3 more pieces in that time. Of course I'm very impressed about the sound and quality of the finished work, whether my music is good or not I still know its going to sound great. But what a serious amount of work it is!
Even if we took one step in this direction:
- a way to input music via handwriting recognition software using a tablet + stylus.
or
- a perfect marriage between samples and a notation program
It would increase the quality of music all of us compose. For instance, right now if I have a great musical idea but I know its going to take to much work to realize it with samples I don't even bother with it and set it aside. I have many pages of music that I don't have time to program. I always have to simplify the music and curb my creativity. Then we all sit around and complain about how there is not enough good music...its a catch-22.
VSL, have you considered designing a notation/DAW program like "Notion" (where samples are automatically linked to the score) but with all the bells and whistles a composer needs today...3rd party plugin support, video scoring, audio plugins and mixing? That would be a good start, you can later add the handwriting recognition features later :-)
You are somewhat already there with VE3...just add everything else, its easy :-) If anyone can do it VSL can.
Thanks for listening,
DM