Absolutely correct, Bob.

Any discussion about the quality of midi sounds must start with the intended usage. Both you and I are primarily live performers. I usually work in bands so everything is live but I will do some duo work in a casino and once about 4 years ago I subbed maybe 6 gigs for a sick friend who was a solo act. He gave me his midi files on a disc plus I set up a bunch of tunes in Biab and played them live using the Conductor feature. All I used was the very weak Roland VSC DXi for sound. The point here is the difference between playing out live and sitting in your bedroom with headphones and picking apart every little thing in the sound quality is huge. Live going through a 500W PA and a pair of JBL Eons in a noisy live venue, the VSC sounded great. And I mean surprisingly great. I let one song play and went out front to check and it really sounded good, none of that ticky tack midi sound at all. This was just using the minijack output from my laptop. At home the VSC is barely useable.

That's the difference between playing in a noisy live setting and listening in a quiet home studio where you can critically hear every little thing.

Bob

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