For now if you're a single or duo act doing classic 70s' and 80's stuff then how do you create those song specific licks without midi? Current Real Tracks only go so far. I call them groove tracks. Once you get past the one or two bar hook that made a particular song a hit, then the RT's are great.

There are several possibilities down the line to take the RT's to the next level of being able to create specific licks like some version of Melodyne or something. We'll just have to see what happens but until then it's only midi that can do that if you're not playing it yourself.

True, the winds of change may be blowing through the computer world and you may be right, down the road midi may not be part of it. For performers there should still be all the keyboard workstations but consider that lots of folks still use a 10 year old OS for music so if Win 9 has no midi there's still Win 7 or Apple but if they give it up too we're still talking at least 10-15 years before it becomes a major problem. You know PG will not sitting still all that time and who knows what kind of fantastic audio manipulation will be available then?

Now that I'm fantasizing here consider the advances with optical recognition and speech recognition. What about music recognition? We have the ACW now. Lets say it's really primitive. Fast forward 10-15 years, what would the ACW look like then? I think we could import any song from a single guitar player to a full orchestra and the software would break it all out to individual instruments and notes. You could then have the Berlin Phil or Tower of Power play your own composition with all the different styles still available. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy playing a country waltz? Sure, why not? There would be some kind of AI to smooth the notes out and make it sound like real humans playing. Don't know about the legalities of that but from a computers point of view I don't think we're too far away from that right now. How about that as the engine inside a future Biab? I could have some fun marketing that.

Bob

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