If you perform in real time then your notes won't be perfectly quantized (which is good, it's more musical) so when you open the MIDI from your DAW in finale the notation will be a mess and you'll have lots of work to do cleaning it up to look nice. If you start in a DAW you have two choices, you can enter one note at a time, like you would in Finale, or you can perform your piece in real time. If you write music in a score writer like Finale, every note will be perfectly quantized to the beat, you can export it as MIDI and import it into a DAW and it will be pretty much the same as what you had in finale, you will then need to do lots of work to add expression to the MIDI to create a good mockup. Once the whole thing is played in I export MusicXML from Reaper and import it into Musescore where I can do the engraving work to get a nice looking score. After recording a part I open up Reaper's notation editor and check that the notation is the same as I have on the paper, if it isn't then I either need to re-record (because I'm a sloppy keyboard player) or I do a little bit of tidying up by hand.

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