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The market for playing a track of MIDI data (in exact interpretation) is flooded; it's called synths and samplers. If you want exact MIDI data replication that is how it is done.



. . . The market is not flooded with good samplers and softsynths, as far as I can tell. Most are difficult-to-find-use-stock-and-maintain (not to mention pay for). It just seems to me that RT is close to beating most of them up---just by adding the option of removing the generation algorithm from the routine and directly interpreting data that's already there. Hey, hate me for liking PG's version more and suggesting a feature that streamlines and improves MIDI playback. I have more than a few thousand dollars tied up in samplers and samples here and I'm just impressed with the approach the PG is taking---and I see some other, albeit mundane, possibilities that could be handled and improved by using RealTracks.

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Realtracks are a whole 'nother animal. Part of the beauty is you get to see how various studio musicians (with the algorythm) would interpret the various styles and progressions. Some people worry the realtracks will sound stale. To me, music created by a single person with their own (exact) ideas for every part can become stale very quickly. One of my first thoughts when experiencing realtracks for the first time was "Wow! Now I can have the input from different musicians on an idea, instantly and with lots of variations!"



I couldn't agree more---I think we love the same woman here . . .

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Some people look at the lack of control as a weakness, I see it as an opportunity to explore. Otherwise they would just be another synth/sampler concept. As they are they go to the next level.



Chaos doesn't frighten me---I teach in an urban high school. It would be neat, though, to score your own track and have RT play it as scored, say, with an RT instrument that you don't have available or don't play. I don't think for a minute that RT is just another synth/sampler concept---I think it may be the best.


I will say that I always appreciate the quick and knowledgeable responses that I get in the PG forums. I love this software and wouldn't mind if it was all that I had to use.

Thanks again,
Paj
8^)