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I know the real tracks are pre-recorded tracks. Is there a way in the future to take those sounds and apply them to notes that you write or is that an impossibility? They sound so much better than turning midi into real instruments like you do with Garritan and other products. Why is it that when you use something like Garritan the sounds are so flat and have no feeling to them. Is there a way to fix that so it's sounds more natural? Thanks



This has been the Holy Grail question for about 25 years now. "I love the control I can get with midi but why can't it sound better?" It's because it's a stupid computer robot playing it, that's why. I'm sure at some big universities using millions of dollars worth of stuff they have some AI programs running that can sound very close to human players but none of that is ready for your desktop for a couple of hundred bucks. Never say never though, it's probably coming.

The main thing about your question is taking a Real Track down to the level of one note. That is exactly what you do with a good synth or sampler. Keyboards like my Kurzweil or softsynths like Halion or Sampletank already use the best players in the world playing the best instruments in the best studios and record them note for note for exactly that purpose. To do that with a Real Track is simply reinventing the wheel. Those synth/samplers are not cheap. Around $500-1000 for the big name softsynths with the extra sound libraries or several grand for a top keyboard. One good sound library of just acoustic basses is $300 from Steinberg or EastWest. A string section another $300 and so on. Garritan is pretty good for the money but certainly not the best. I was reading about a horn library that only cost $2,700. Yes, twenty-seven hundred bucks just for horns. They have their own proprietary control scheme and you have to go to school to learn it. The sound is there you just have to pay for it. And learn how to control it. If it's just you then you need to understand the nuances of every instrument in your virtual band to do it right.

I know, I know you just want to be able to load a song into Biab, hit play and it sounds like Tower of Power at the Hollywood Bowl. Alas, outside of that multimillion dollar university lab we're not even close to that happening yet.

Bob

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