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And it says "RealTracks are audio, so that they aren't editable on a note-by-note basis. But you can use MIDI for this, by deleting the RealTracks section, and replacing it with the exact pattern or riff that you want (entered by you as MIDI notes on a MIDI Track)"

And that's my point. Different tools for different jobs. If I take a recorded guitar part from RTs and decide I want to change a few notes, I could use MIDI, but the tone wouldn't be the same. To match the tone I'd need an identical guitar, FX pedals, amp, mic, and recording studio equipment.



You can edit audio nearly as easily as it were MIDI in most modern DAWs. Reaper, for example, uses the same algorith as BIAB (Elastique) for audio stretching and pitch shifting, the process of changing musical phrases is very easy and offers great results. Melodyne is here since years, its newer versions allow polyphonic audio editing and DAW integration, demostrating that this area has a great future.

http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=ara#top

(BTW, I'm not trying to refuse your points about MIDI, just adding new points of view )