They are probably seeing the writing on the wall.... people who use computers to compose music (which is probably 90% of musicians under 40) don't tend to use sheet music except as an output format, and even that is declining along with the need for real musicians playing instruments.
Pianoroll notation and all the things that tend to come with that just lend themselves to computers.
In many ways this is like CAD transitioning away from fractional notation to decimal. Fractions suck when using anything measured or derived, as they give you a tradeoff between accuracy and readability, that isn't the case with decimals. (i.e. is 19/64 bigger or smaller than 9/32? Meanwhile it's quite obvious that .296 is bigger than .281) With fractions, and traditional music notation, quantization is an important and annoying part of the process.
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They are probably seeing the writing on the wall.... people who use computers to compose music (which is probably 90% of musicians under 40) don't tend to use sheet music except as an output format, and even that is declining along with the need for real musicians playing instruments.
Pianoroll notation and all the things that tend to come with that just lend themselves to computers.
In many ways this is like CAD transitioning away from fractional notation to decimal. Fractions suck when using anything measured or derived, as they give you a tradeoff between accuracy and readability, that isn't the case with decimals. (i.e. is 19/64 bigger or smaller than 9/32? Meanwhile it's quite obvious that .296 is bigger than .281) With fractions, and traditional music notation, quantization is an important and annoying part of the process.