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Joe V,
...but inspiration with MIDI instruments is short for me, I find something is lost. For me its the way MIDI notes come in discreet little packages, it just does not feel real.
Until BIAB came up with Real Tracks - they are such a gas. Now with BIAB I have had the product for years and hardly ever go under the hood.

IMO That's how a music machine should be!



I am feeling the same about 'something is lost', and I believe it's due to 2 things 1.) the delay in response time, and 2.) the limitation of Midi Guitar synths to EASILY allow the guitar player to phrase and articulate similarly to the emulated instrument. From what I've seen, the only and best way around this is for the manufacturers to sample the cool articulations, but then, you have a SINGLE sampled articulation and you're not feeling like you're in control of the phrasing, which is what you want - thus it FEELS like you're playing back little portions of recordings and stringing them together, something a computer can do, for example - RealTracks. Although we love the accompaniment and that RealTracks provides, and it is the "next best thing" to having a real musician of that caliber to work with you, it is limited in the sense of the phrasing variations it allows. It's easy (not for me - for PG, that is) to rearrange amazing parts, but to simulate changes in the phrasing for variation and interest purposes - that's still to come (maybe in our lifetime ? maybe PG is working on that right now ? - I doubt it, it's too complicated, I think).