Ok, so bottom line is... Notes are for shareholders of the company, but most likely there won't happen a lot in terms of price development. You won't be profiting from it? Or is there any reason why those shares should benefit the EARLY ADOPTER?
You won't be able to buy artist coins with notes.... Therefore you will need bitUSD, right?
And as soon as you hold those artist coins you will be more or less trading it as we know it from the alt market?
You don't need to buy Notes in order to buy Artiscoin correct. You could buy Artistcoin directly with bitUSD. So if you don't care about Notes wait until Peertrack is live then with your CreditCard or debit you buy bitUSD and then you can buy music, Artistcoins and whatever will be for sale on the website. The vast majority of user they will not even know that PeerTracks is working on top of Bitshare Music blochain,
Notes ares used to back up your bitUSD in the same way that bts back bitUSD now. So the more bitUSD are used on PeerTracks, the more valuable Notes will be. Also if you are a holder of Notes there are transaction fee that are going to the Notes holders, they are burned and they reduce the total supply you could see it as dividends but is a bit different.
So if PeerTrack will be successful Notes will surely increase in value in my opinion. If not you invest just in artiscoin and make money out of it. Donating for notes in Pre sale is is beveling that the system will be successful.
You could buy bitUSD with Notes therefore you could buy artistcoins