[Scott Dorsey]

genericaudioperson wrote:

I find it easier to perceive and write music using score notation,
rather than dealing with pattern sequencers and piano-roll editors. I
would like to score most of the music in notation (to be played back
by internal VST's), and then go behind the scenes to do some volume
editing or effects adding when needed.

I've been looking at the various software for PC's, and it seems that
Sonar might be the best bet. While nearly all DAW's have some sort of
notation capability, it seems like Sonar would be solid. But the
screenshot on the Cubase website also looked good (they put a large
score up which caught my attention).

It doesn't sound to me like you want a DAW at all. You probably are
looking more for something like Sibelius.
--scott
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