ok lets see if i can explain why i'm doing so much midi...but also let me say this...i do know what BIAB is capable of and can do as far as creating a song and making it sound outstanding...

but here is my problem's...one i'm still in a 5pc band situation that takes a lot of my time...and learning BIAB also takes a lot of time for me...because i'm not very quick when it comes to messing with things on a computer...so its going to take me a while....but i'm also grateful for the headway i've made so far with the help of this forum...and the stuff i was able to grab from the owners manuel and figure out..

a lot of the music i'm messsing with is Midi's made by people here in louisiana
its a certain style called..swamp pop..so BIAB doesn't have any styles i've found yet whether it be real tracks or midi tracks...so i'm spending lots of time on those..

even though Midi's don't sound as good as Realtracks...its not to bad if you delete the guitar tracks and trash stuff...and play live guitar and maybe live keyboard or steel guitar along with the midi's...going through my yamaha keyboard using its sound's from it
you can play small venues here...and as long as there are real musicians up on stage playing with the backing tracks the crowd and club owners are happy....and we give them a good price on say a 2 man show....with this depression everyone is trying to do the midi thing and have a one man or 2 man show..

in the future i do want to have my own songs i've built from scratch and be proud of..
and say play in a mp3 format live and play along, and believe me i've tried to build them...is just i'm not able to find the styles to match up with my chord structures for some reason right now maybe i don't have the right styles ,but hell thats why i bought the everything pak to have a lot...i know how to match the bar lines from chords and send it to BIAB...but every style i try...sounds like crap..or its just not close enough to what the orginal song sounds like...but i'm just a simple cajun man who will keep chipping at it and eventually all this BIAB stuff will sink in to my hard head..


so with saying all that, the time i spend trying to search a style and come up with one
and make the song work....i could have done 40 midi's and have them sounding good enough
to add to my play list and make some money in a club someplace..

but my plan is this..after i get a nice fat library of worked midi tunes and some gigs on the books...i will spend more time on building my own using real tracks...and also i'm limited on equipment i have to work on this stuff....i just have BIAB on computer...a yamaha keyboard...and my guitar rig. to make my dreams come true at this point..

i'm just a simple simmy educated cajun fella making his way through all the musical madness...lol....i hope this helps the veterans understand a little more where i am on the musical food chain....not very high at all

cajun