Am I the Odd-One-Out? Or are you?

There are many different styles, methods, and tools people use to express their musical creativity, and I was curious how many people here share my seemingly obscure ones and to what level they do so. Here mine are in order of apparent obscurity:

Level 1: I mostly compose music for band/orchestra and, in those cases, shoot for realism with the audio rather than whatever sounds coolest.

Level 2: I compose directly in the notation software and then move to the DAW rather than starting in the DAW and only using the notation software for creating/refining sheet music.

Level 3: I export the audio for each instrument part from the notation software and put that in the DAW rather than exporting the MIDI and using VSTis.

Level 4: I use MuseScore 4 as my notation (and composition) software of choice.

How far did you get? Any partial similarities? Any skipped levels? I'd be surprised (though delighted) to see anyone here even relate to level 1, let alone any farther, but I was curious how much of the odd-one-out I really am here.

But even if none of those apply to you...

What obscure aspects of your workflow do you wonder if anyone relates to? Maybe by sharing you'll find out you're not as alone as you thought?

Anyway, I know there probably won't be much engagement here since FTM just ended for the month (unless I'm mistaken and the community stays alive during the interim), but in case someone does see this, let me know your thoughts!

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