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hey remember when T*m Sw**ney from Ep*c G*mes made that incredibly obnoxious tweet about music notation?
well, new Tantacrul just dropped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4
(i mean okay it dropped yesterday but. i'm so happy)
that tweet was and is so upsetting because it's so arrogantly ignorant and the reasons why are obvious even to a beginner. apparently i, an extremely bad and inexperienced musician, put more effort into learning music than mr t*msw**ney ep*cg*mes did before proposing new notation
(i shouldn't be posting about it but sometimes a tweet just does you psychic damage and i think t*msw**ney ep*cg*mes accidentally succeeded in that.)
it's not even complex theoretical things that are difficult to grasp. it's literally… have you ever opened a complex MIDI file in some kind of editor and tried to adjust the timings of notes with short durations without turning on grid snap and zooming in? it's hell
I did like standard music notation as a child, but found it to be too simple to be useful in real life: a mere two parts, no control changes, no effect sends, no drum instrument editing, no variation banks, no voice editing, imprecise velocity information, etc. The Yamaha XG sta—