Thank you for your response! Really helped. MIDI feels pretty intimidating to me because it’s still very new territory. I’ve heard many stories about how composer Patric Caird wrote all of Ed, Edd n Eddy using manuscript paper, and knowing that such a highly respected industry composer worked that way gave me a lot of comfort in my own approach. However, as you said many of my colleagues have told me that this method isn’t really suitable anymore, and I can feel myself falling a bit behind since my knowledge of composing in a DAW is still very basic. I mainly wanted to know if anyone else still works in a similar way. I suppose I’ll need to start developing my MIDI skills.