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I have been poking around in the super midi track demo folder.
I see many demos with three or four real tracks and one blue midi piano track.
What is the conceptual use of this arrangement? What special use can you put these tracks too?
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Billy
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One of the great things about the MIDI Supertracks is being able to use a vst instrument to get the same performance that a RealTrack provided. Particularly (for me) the pianos. In a recent song, I used 3 different sources for a piano track: An EZKeys track and 2 different BIAB MIDI Supertracks. Since they are all MIDI, I could apply the same piano module (the EZKeys Grand in this case) to the combined performance. If I had tried to use the EZKeys wav (export) and the 2 BIAB RealTracks they would likely all sound different. If there is a MIDI Supertrack available for a piano RealTrack, I always go with the MST because I can control what the piano sounds like. I have a number of good vst pianos and they all allow parameter tweaking. And I find that many of the piano RTs have effects on them that do not work in my mixes. It also allows you to edit the performance - which is not always possible with the RT. If you want, you can hear the 3 track example I referred to here: https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=618149&page=1
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I sometimes use jazz piano super tracks. The playing may be exuberant but as you say, editing is easy. I believe there is less repetition heard in a super track performance than in a RealTrack comping track.
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OK, what both Matt and Floyd said makes total sense to me. This is about mostly control and perhaps a better original performance and integration.
So I assume this is still all midi 1.0 standard. Nothing having to do with the new 2.0 standard that came out in January.
Sometimes things get named a certain way and if you don't know..."Midi Super Tracks"? What is "Super" about it? So now I know.
I also have several piano VST's.
I am not one to be super happy to set around regenerating tracks, especially not knowing if what I am looking for even exist. MIDI is still the least problematic way to adjust things.
I had a piano part that played an A chord when I had written an A7 chord. After about nine regens it plated the flat seven. Those are the sort of things that are confusing.
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Billy
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MST > Logic Pro Grand Steinway is our go to piano.
Great feature.
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I been thinking about buying Spectrasonics Keyscape Virtual Keyboard Collection. There bass vst is really good.
Anyone own it?
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Sometimes things get named a certain way and if you don't know..."Midi Super Tracks"? What is "Super" about it? So now I know.
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Billy
What is super about MIDI Super Tracks, a very dumb name IMHO, is that they are not quantized. All BiaB MIDI tracks are quantized to 120 BPM. Non-quantized MIDI tracks have more feel via subtle timing variations that you can not get with 120 BPM quantizing. MIDI Super Tracks are MIDI's version of RTs, just a lot more modifiable.
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Band-in-a-Box midi typically is pattern based so if you're creating a three chord song the same pattern plays over each chord. MIDI SuperTracks are based on a midi recording of a musician performance.
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It appears to me that the midi super tracks could have been constructed at the real tracks sessions.
I have no idea what PG Music has actually done in their recording sessions. There are high quality hybrid pianos which produce both analog sound and midi information. There also exist high quality pianos that produce high quality digital sound and midi information. I own a digital piano that when I play it into my DAW the analog output goes into the A to D converter and and on to a track. The midi information is transmitted at the same time to another track.
It is also quite common for live acoustic drummers to have midi triggers on their drum kits and to produce both analog sound and electronic sound concurrently. I have gotten so used to hearing electronically produced drum sounds I actually prefer it in most cases. I personally don't like some of the real track drums in BIAB because they are on one track. That makes it extremely time consuming and sometime impossible to have the the level of control I would like.
Due to latency and other technical issues midi guitars have never been very popular. There are woodwind midi devices that also have many technical issues due in large part to the midi 1.0 specification. I have read that the new midi 2.0 specification may go a long way to resolving some of these issues.
The pattern based midi would and does produce a very generic comping arrangement while a performance based midi file would automatically be less generic. Anything can be done with midi to include creating a complete piano track one note at a time. It is fine to fix a few notes or chords you don't like. It is like punching in a few misplayed guitar parts. At some point all that is pointless. It becomes garbage in garbage out, more trouble to fix than to play again.
I find the blue "midi super tracks" to be much better than other midi tracks in BIAB.
My question was to try to understand if I am missing anything.
Cheers,
Billy
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I find the blue "midi super tracks" to be much better than other midi tracks in BIAB.
My question was to try to understand if I am missing anything.
Cheers,
Billy
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Billy, Jim gave you important information in the last sentence of his last post.
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Besides the obvious advantage of being performed instead of programmed, MIDI SuperTracks have another important advantage. You are not bound by the instrument that the track was performed on. These tracks are only data and can be applied to the infinite number of patches available with todays modern synths and romplers.
The biggest drawback to RealTracks is that you are confined to the instrumentation that PG chooses to use. This is almost always traditional instrumentation. This may be fine for most forum members who tend to skew older. However, from time to time much has been made of the product not appealing to younger music makers and the look of the interface has been blamed. I believe it is not the interface, but the featured music that does not appeal to potential younger users.
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By the way, this isn't an Off-Topic question at all. It's very much regular BIAB, with some good information and discussion here.
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Thanks Matt,
I think I understand all this pretty well now. I am going to render a midi super track and also a standard midi track to look at the midi information each contains. I think in Sonar there was a view that gave a list of the midi commands for a track.
The one thing I am not clear on is how the standard midi tracks were generated in the past.
Also I saw and I understand what Jim said. Jim has bees super helpful in getting me to under what can be done in BIAB that I want to do.
Where do I post these type of questions in the future?
Thanks,
Billy
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Oh, I just thought there is valuable discussion about BIAB that might be missed by its being in this forum. The regular BIAB for Windows or BIAB for Mac product forums would be good.
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OK, thanks Matt...BB for windows next time.
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“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”
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