My DAW of choice lately has been MuseScore. Anyone else making music using oldschool notation?

Been using MuseScore as I've been working mainly on piano stuff lately (I know notation software isn't exactly a DAW, but whatever). Now I wish I could find my old cracked version of Sibelius, but the 2.0 software isn't bad for a free progrum. Anybody been writing any music the old fashioned way? If so, what do you like better or hate about it compared the DAW process?

I actually wanted to try out scoring in classical notation and playing the result back using VSTs and external synthesizers, figuring that it would get me back into learning to read notation and think about arrangements etc. That was many years ago and I was using a Linux then. I remember getting as far as installing the software (maybe it even was MuseScore) and then finding out that it didn't actually support sending out midi (or it was some other technical issue on Linux) and then I went on to a traditional DAW and used Ardour.

I think writing in MuseScore is an interesting workflow, although I do not really see the appeal anymore because writing in traditional notation seems actually a lot more restrictive in terms of timing. For example if I record a real-time MIDI clip, it will store what I played with microsecond accuracy and up to 127 different dynamic levels, whereas in traditional notation there's like 6-7 different dynamics (from ppp to fff) and the "quantization" is up to 1/32 of the beat. So in this example, the MIDI clip retains more of the character and timing of my playing, but the traditional notation does not allow for that without having to find workarounds. I think this is also the reason why they sometimes talk about pianists "interpreting" a piece - basically if you play something written in traditional notation, you will need to somehow bring it to life and make it more "human" by using your own playing skills to nuance things, because there simply is not enough information to render audio from the notation and have it sound like the real thing. So I kind of tend to fall on the side of DAW, because there I can be sure that what I see is what I get - with traditional notation, a lot of stuff is left for the performer to figure out.

That said, maybe I read too much into your idea being to compose only on the MuseScore and not to play/record the parts by yourself.

Oh I definitely only use MuseScore for for transcribing the piece from the keys to the "page". I then either decide whether I want ti to be just keys or to make it into an arrangement with different sound sources. Every tune I've written with a DAW has been "improvised" in the sense that I build the song as I record it. I want to try to get into writing full pieces on piano and then working from there, so I've been finishing pieces on MuseScore and then recording everything with a DAW. 

I totally get hat you mean with the timing. I haven't done it yet, but I know that in MuseScore2.0 you can transfer midi files from Ableton (or what-have-you) directly into it, so it keeps all the timing, etc. Also 2.0 introduced the use of entering notes from a midi source, so that would make sense that you couldn't do it back in the day. 

One thing I'm really liking about writing like this is that I get more of a sense of accomplishment after a days work. With DAWs, I never really know how much I've done with a song because, like I said, I rarely know where the song is going (which has served me well, but I've gotten kind of tired of working that way). With traditional notation, you can see on the page exactly how many bars you have written. I guess you can do that in a DAW too though. Anyways, it reminds me of writing prose in a way. 

I've played around with Rosegarden a few times, because I was looking at something more flexible w.r.t. tempo changes, time signatures etc. It's pretty nice, it has some simple recording functions as well so you can use it like a DAW, especially on linux if you patch in other softsynths with Jack.

Nice! I'll chek that out