As I understand it, the concept piano roll consists of a horizontal representation of a score, the classical paper-thing. Imo the vertical representation of a tracker-pattern is much more fitted to the monitor-environment. In that way one can read on one line/row which events are taking place at the same moment.
I understand and I agree. Yet at the same time I schooled myself on learning music through the voice of piano. Over the years, I've also picked up other instruments, recently flute, which is in strark contrast to the technics of a piano. Of course, the knowledge of music never changes.
I guess what I'm saying is I obviously feel more free with my music, visualizing it via a traditional piano layout.
It's not even a matter of me not being able to translate my musical knowledge and experience into the computer or vise versa. Like a piano, a tracker is still yet another vise to tap into your own musical river.
Yet, I have noticed my more complex music is flowing from input based off a standard piano format. Point and case, in this format you can visualize all of the musical compontents that makeup various parts in a song, for instance, bass, chord and melody in a very effective and concise way. It's literally all laid out clearly.
Whereas a flute for example, you have to blow a different way to reach various octaves to produce higher or lower notes. If you were to just look at a basic wooden flute, one might only see 6 holes, which could hinder some folks I suspect.
Don't mistake my request for an exchange of the devises on traditional notation, which is horiztonally left to right. I never could make much practical use of that format.
I really do like the vertical way that a tracker inserts it's data. Certain keys represent certain notes, you have visual spaces to represent quarter, half, whole notes, etc. and you only have to draft that in one column, instead of multiple clefs. This is the way it should have been from the start. Whoever invented the tracker layout of inserting data should seriously get a tremendous award, it truly changes and simplifies things in the world of composing music.
Overall, it's not really a huge request, something that could be added down the line. In the meantime, I'll manage just fine.