Totally agree on the ease of use thing. I used to do some MIDI composition with an old version of Cakewalk Home Studio years ago. It was light on notational features (that's not really what it was intended for) but I've never come upon another app that I found to be as straightforward to sit down with and just bang out some musical ideas. This web app could easily become a perfect solution for that sort of informal usage. But the UI needs to be stupid easy, and currently it's not. It seems like you should be able to import a MIDI to get started, too.
I think score sharing done right (i.e. better than this) would be pretty awesome, too. Open it up to non-members and add search, tagging, ratings, commenting, etc., and you'd have the YouTube of musical compositions and arrangements. There's a BIG community of musicians out there for whom that could prove very valuable.
I think score sharing done right (i.e. better than this) would be pretty awesome, too. Open it up to non-members and add search, tagging, ratings, commenting, etc., and you'd have the YouTube of musical compositions and arrangements. There's a BIG community of musicians out there for whom that could prove very valuable.