Hi All,
I don't want to be rude or disrepsectful or detract from the superb work that Notes Norton have done with band in the box midi styles and fake books and improvements. But I do think Notes Norton are reliant on midi for sales of the packages they offer for sale and as I would too, tend to be a little biast towards wanting more developement and promoting of midi, so I do see the point.

I suspect that PG can't do everything at once and spent a lot of developement time on new features for the latest upgrades to keep the company running. I'm sure it will all fall in to place in time and MIDI & Realtracks will be PERFECT.

I recently bought some NN Fake Book biab songs disks and although very good I found afterwards I really needed the Style disks to go with them to do them justice which I can't afford at the moment so was a little dissapointed as it will turn out to much more expensive than I first thought.

I certainly think any improvements to MIDI will be greatly received by all that use it including myself. I love the quality of the Realtracks and drums but I also love the versatility of midi and providing you have a good sound bank/keyboard or whatever the midi can be just as good.

I tend to mix and match and use both often depending on the type of project I am working on. There is room for BOTH realtracks and MIDI. I don't think you can favour one over the other, it's down to what people find the best tool for the job they are working on. I would think though that many new to biab these days would possibally not be into midi or know much about it with the changing times and equipment so are being introduced and using only realtracks.

It's brilliant that we now have the choice thanks to PG and the team's insights and hard work that biab has come so far since those old Dos days.
Can't get enough.
Regards. Jeff