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Not taking anything away from trackers but DAWs are a lot easier to grok for the average musician. Take your breakbeat example, most DAWs also have a drum mach
by laumars 5y ago
Not taking anything away from trackers but DAWs are a lot easier to grok for the average musician.
Take your breakbeat example, most DAWs also have a drum machine style layout which allows you to arrange samples in a more intuitive way than with a piano roll while still offering a visual layout that means something to the average musician.
In fact ironically both the piano roll and drum machine layouts are older than trackers. But their birth is from hardware instruments rather than software. Thus really emphasising how familiar they are to your average musician.
- zozbot234 5y agoThe piano roll is not really "intuitive to the average musician", though. Most musicians would rather use ordinary sheet music notation, which was also supported in some trackers (like OctaMED Pro).
- hnlmorg 5y agoWhile that's true for some, I think you're overestimating the number of musicians that can read sheet music or underestimating the number of genres out there made up of self-taught musicians. Quite frankly, if the piano roll was really that counter-intuitive as you make out, then it wouldn't be the norm in DAWs because the creative folk would naturally prefer to use Trackers or sheet music.