This is because, it's not so easy to make music with an editor, and hex caracters.
Squirrel doesn't require hex characters. MML requires you to type in
MUSICAL NOTES.
You can use any editor you want, and various MML programs to assist... also, it's not advised that you begin composing the song in notepad. compose it on a keyboard, a guitar, or some kind of audible music editor that will show you note data, and preferably has MIDI support. Once you have MIDI, the possibilities are endless. MIDI is recyclable. It's digital data.
i don't use squierrel for that reason, because the lib is good and very easy to implement .
I have used it in a test, and i was surprised how is it simple to include a chip tune ALREADY MADE, with it 
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So you don't use Squirrel because... it's easy to implement?... I don't get what you mean there.
The entire Insanity soundtrack was made as CD audio first, and then converted to chiptunes used in Squirrel in one sitting. You're just pushing note data from one format to MML instead.
Yes you repeat all the time how it's simple to make music, but .......
I think this is because, at start your library was made for personnal use and not for a public release.
I am not sure I follow you.
Squirrel is just like the way you make MML music for the MSX, and many, many people do it commercially, including non-programmers. It *is* simple. Disagreeing with that statement means you disagree with an entire computer scene who proves the simplicity of it every year with new game releases that use MML.
It's far less cumbersome than f*cking around with a tracker (which uses hex!) and then using the non-existant/not-finished MOD/XM whatever support library in your projects. This kind of stuff was published in magazines for fun. If you think it is hard, I encourage you to read the big instruction manual I took the time to type out that breaks down MML in detail and explains how it operates. It's practically a 1:1 translation of sheet music. So, you can compose music in any extremely easy manner and then convert it to MML painlessly. There are tons of MIDI to MML converters out there, because people have been doing this sort of thing for decades.
aside from that, I intend to make videos showing how to do all of this, because too many people are still approaching Squirrel expecting a Tracker-Style experience, and being scared off when that is not what they get.
To be honest, trackers are dumb. They're unintuitive and don't function like a musical instrument. I blame trackers for PCE having no chiptune homebrew for years.
These were made by people who aren't programmers.
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