Hi everyone smile This thread has been really helpful as I was thinking of posting something along these lines.

My position is slightly different - I basically want to be able to have nice sounding samples to use as melodies for my BIAB tracks. I don't plan on using these as fully polished pieces of music, but I would like to have good sounding demos to go along with the sheet music that I sell.

At the moment, BIAB does a good job (on the whole) of providing a nice rhythm section, but it's a little ruined with rubbish general MIDI playing the melody.

I fully appreciate what everyone has said about playing with the MIDI commands to fine-tune a line to make it sound real. Unfortunately I just don't have time for that (other than some basic dynamics/articulations which are part of the sheet music anyway); I'd just like to have some instruments that sound better than the default sounds.

What would people recommend in this situation? I'm willing to splash out if it's worth it.

Thanks!