Musescore and Daw, a suggested approach
While Musescore is not intended to be a sequencer, the increasing sophistication of DAWs, Notation programs and Sampler libraries mean the need to intergrate these properly is only going to increase.
Various implementations exist with other Notation programs but they lack flexibility in the libraries that are compatible. Libraries and Daws of a sophistication and flexibility only a few years ago the preserve of very expensive software are now cheap or free.
What I believe is needed is a univeral API that would easily enable any notation program and any DAW to be connected, midi channels set up, in both directions so one can drive the other. This can't be too difficult and it could be a commercial offering. Everyone with these programs would buy it. It would be a no brainer.
If DAWS and Notation programs lack the software connectors to do this now then the API would set a standard which they could choose to adopt or license.
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I believe Jack is/used to be that universal interface
In reply to I believe Jack is/used to be… by jeetee
Hi yes Jack and Rewire offer things but its not a easy solution as we'd all know it and be using it. Reaper can see 16 channels of midi output from Musescore as another contributor here has detailed but theres no two way connection. Its a matter of Musescore playing out the score in midi and Reaper recording it as midi. Unless I am mistaken, Reaper doesn't know where in the piece it and Musescore are so they are not really linked. Changing anything to the midi in Reaper does not update the Musescore midi. There are descriptions on the web of using Notion and Rewire into Reaper and Sibelius and Finale using Rewire into a DAW and these are posts from around 10 years ago.
I know notation s/w and sequencer s/w do different things but the game is changing. Sequencer software is getting very cheap and accessible so many who have Musescore are getting Reaper. The integration of expression dynamics in Musescore is an acknowledgement that more realistic playback is desired in a notation program. And as far as the 'rigid' playback of notation versus the more human DAW playback of non quantised midi, that could easily be accomodated with a 'humanising' layer that shifts and nuances the midi within the DAW. As is done with the expression maps in the piano roll.
And yes you can say, well if you want that buy a more expensive notation s/w but that isn't the point of my suggestion.
It seems to me that the music world (amateur and professional) is crying out for a plug and play solution, a proper easy to use app that will pass all the relevant info to and fro between Notation and DAW, any of them. Such an interface could be commercial, available to buy and available to License to DAW and Notation programdevelopers. And this is the opportunity for Musescore. Someone will do it, sooner or later. Wouldn't it be nice if it was Musescore!