It looks far better than it is to work with. :(
Having just spent the last hour plus, working on my Tangerine Dream ambient tune idea ... inserting / editing notes in its notes area is a major P.I.T.A!
One of the most difficult things is placing the notes in the view, with proper quantization. (Doing it without, is quite difficult to place with any strong timing accuracies, hence, bringing you back to quantizing to help yourself out. :( )
But - dotted note lengths? Wholey schidt! Talk about even FURTHER pain in the a! Anything outside of 4/4 quantization is extremely difficult to do. Ive had to do the note placements by eye and ear. I got them in to their satisfactory positions but ... is it really worth the time required? (I dont remember ever having troubles like this working with the few versions of Fruity Loops that I did in the late 90s and / or early 2000s.)
Next - changing things over time. Recording wise, you have _ONE_ set of effects, for the entire collection of tracks in the sequence. Not, per track, like the other sequencers that Ive seen so far. That helps to take away from the mood of the piece if youre using an effect to help accentuate a sound. (I was using Filter Cutoff and Resonance on one of the presets to give it some animation through the 1st 24 bars. As soon as I added a bassline, IT had the same effect applied to it. Nope. Cant do that. Thereby, lost the Cutoff/Resonance changes. :( )
Next - trying to zoom in and out of the track youre working on as well as moving the track along to look at it further into the tune? A horrible method for doing both of those! I havent seen that many sequencers yet, but their method IS by far, the worst way of doing it that Ive yet seen on the i-Pad 3. :(
Next - volume changes have to be done note by note. They cant be recorded over time.
Overall - composing by manual placing notes (as opposed to recording things by playing live) in the current version, takes way, way too much time away from the creative flow.
It shore looks great but ...
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