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>>33893083
If you go far into it then sure, but if you want to use a DAW then being able to read basic sheet music is gonna be a pretty useful skill.

Plus it's not like a real instrument where you have to have the meanings memorized and need to be able to play as you read. I can't do that at all, but having references to check 'what note is this' or 'what does this symbol mean' is handy. I would advocate doing it this way instead of trying to grind out memorization about all this stuff, that would be too much work for too little fun and would delay actual music making for a long time.

If you have this image, the one in my last post, and that link for what basic notes mean, then you should be able to use the majority of touhou sheetmusic on that musescore site for whatever DAW you're using.

>>33895255
It's just a faster way of transcribing notes, who cares? The result is what people hear.

The reason I'm leaning into plugging the notes one by one is because I tried to import a MIDI but the DAW didn't have all the same instrument samples, so it substituted them with its own library, and it became more confusing to tell what was supposed to be what than if I'd just plugged the notes in for each instrument myself. Plus the MIDI seemed to have more instruments than the official song, so it was already kind of a remix and I couldn't tell in the DAW what was new and what was just subtle in the original.

If that's a non-issue for your songs/DAW though, then go for it.

Plugging in the notes yourself is gonna give you a better understanding of the song, but how much that matters depends on how far you want to go.