How good is the Notation Editor of Fender Studio Pro 8 ?

[Muziksculp]

Hi,

I'm curious to know how good is the Notation Editor available in Fender Studio Pro 8 ?

Since I have no plans to use Notion, any one using the FSPro 8 Notation Editor for Orchestral composition ?

Thanks,
Muziksculp

 

[Lukas]

Hey Muziksculp,

I'm curious to know how good is the Notation Editor available in Fender Studio Pro 8 ?

this is a bit difficult to answer without knowing what "good" means to you, since it really depends on what you’re looking for and what matters most in your workflow. There are some limitations, especially when it comes to non-quantized music.

Since you already have FSP 8, have you tried the notation editor yet? What are your impressions so far?

 

[Muziksculp]

Hey Muziksculp,


this is a bit difficult to answer without knowing what "good" means to you, since it really depends on what you’re looking for and what matters most in your workflow. There are some limitations, especially when it comes to non-quantized music.

Since you already have FSP 8, have you tried the notation editor yet? What are your impressions so far?

Hi Lukas,

No, I haven't installed FSPro 8 yet, that's why I was asking about this detail. (re-designing my studio).

With regards to Un-Quantized midi notes, I think most notation editors have a hard time interpreting it. So, I'm expecting the same to be true with FSP 8 's Notation Editor.

I'm also curious if future updates will enhance the Notation Editor, with useful features.

I tend to use a Score Editor when I need to view analyze a tracks phrasing looking at musical note values. or other details that are visually easier to interpret compared to looking at the notes in the key-editor, But don't use it regularly. So, it's nice to have it integrated into FSP 8 .

I'm also aware that Notion 6 is no longer in development, but that doesn't matter to me, since I never used it, plus I would rather have notation editor integrated in the DAW.

Thanks,
Muziksculp

 

[dominicperry]

I've used the Score View in Studio One for many years - I use it to interpret midi from inprovisations, and make a quantised score from it, so I can remid myself of what I did.

With FSP, you can now extract note data from audio files, meaning it's not even compulsory to record the midi data. But I don't need anything precise, just enough to show the chords, bass line, remind me of the melody and general feel.
I did a comparison a while back of S1, Pro Tools, Logic, Reaper and Muse Score interpreting a quantised midi file, and my personal opinion was that S1 and Logic did the best job, but Logic pasted hundreds of Pedal markings over every bar for some unknown reason. Pro Tools was worse but ok, Muse Score was ok if I quantised the Midi in S1 or Logic and just used it to draw the score, and Reaper was a total, unusable disaster.

If I was producing a proper score for consumption by a classical musician, then I'd use Dorico or something similar. But for my own purposes, S1/FSP does a pretty good job. I don't edit the notes before I print them out, so I'm relying on quantisation and good interpretation of the midi data to get me a usuable score.

Dominic