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wouldn't it be lovely if we could input notes and play them back with the realtracks?



What you just described is a common MIDI sequencer playing back MIDI samples.

We've had that for years.

And it has limitations, which is why RealTracks make the huge difference that they make. It isn't about playing back single notes with the same samples every time, but about playing back well-chosen phrases or groups of notes over a given chord that makes the RealTracks sound "Real".


--Mac



Not really, otherwise I would have mentioned a sampler. (Which should be (audio/wave) sampler by the way, since MIDI is not sound but digital 0's and 1's so there is nothing there to sample). No, that is not what I mean. Or maybe I do in a comparisson of the basics, but not the basic sampler, although a good quality sampler might be not a bad idea to add in the instrument plugin section besides the dxi midi plugin we get. And a sampler could also play phrases and the limitations are of course only made by the fact of 16 channels to send the midi data, not the amount of variations. So if it has to be called a sampler, then I would say it should be a variable intelligent musical midi to wave sampler.

In other words what I really ment, and that is the whole point here, a kind of reverse enginering to develope some way to use the realtracks by putting in midi notes. This you could extend to more possibilities of course, like playing a part of a riff based on that note untill the next input follows or whatever, or exactly doing what you explain here, acting as a simple wave sampler (single notes/chords, strumming guitar, pizzicato strings a.s.o.). So instead translating the realtracks to notes (as we now have it) translate the notes into realtracks. That way you got more control and choices then the way we use now. A track then of course should not only contain those phrases, but also single chords and stuff like that. In fact a combination of the realtracksystem and a (track)sampleplayer. Would have to be a very smart device so I doubt if it is technically (allready) possible, but hey I thought it was at least a nice dream!

I'll be back...