Funny, my BIL, as an adult wishes he learned notation. He looks at me taking lead sheets and playing like it is no big deal. He can't grasp the Chord concept.
I think basic notation should be a requirement in schools like letters and numbers. But heck we fund sport programs not music programs ?
You have a great point on the notation side. I'm surprised Bandlab hasn't invested the resources to update this part of the program as I'm with you that it is needed for the educational market.
I started with Cakewalk Pro Audio something or other way back in the day. Point is I still feel like a newbie at times. Learning the basics isn't that hard if you take it slowly. Learning all the in's and outs of this monster of a DAW or any of the big DAWs is actually mind blowing IMHO. What we can do in a DAW is amazing compared to the old days. So take it slow and if a few months time I bet you will have the basics down
As my nurse wife has said countless times. People are testing too soon with the home tests. It is a short window of time though to get the Paxlovid for it to do its job. So my wife sees why folks panic and test right away. Heck my daughter is coming home from University end of next week and her sister still has a few weeks left in High School. So we might be using those home kits on the college kid to make sure she doesn't have Covid and pass to her sister. She has AP finals and she doesn't want to get sick.
I'm still wearing a mask at work and when I'm out shopping. Every little precaution helps!
It always seems a compromise when choosing a keyboard. I love the weight of my Casio PX5s but don't like the little display. But I have to tell you when I used it in church a few times it was so nice that it was under 25lbs. For my needs I would be checking out the Roland RD88 if I needed to in the future.
YMMV