@All,

My comments about PG's midi excelling above all else is individual note editing - that is where I think it's better than pretty much anything else.

What stinks is the lack of other editing/mixing functions like all midi CC control automation, that is node based - as Robh points out.

One day, I will probably buy back in to PG with the MegaPak. I left the fold when I got hooked on low-latency VSTi handling with freebie instruments that brought back the goosebumps from the old days. I then made some investments that I got used to and now it would be hard to go back to being without them, just like I would not like to do without cruise control on a car. Sure I can do it manually, but I'd rather something else take that off my mind/effort.

I don't need autogeneration of tracks right now. In fact, the 'smart instruments' in my Garageband on iPhone do a serviceable job of this. Oh, it's a 5$ app. I can't feed it a chord sequence, but I can pre-select which chords are going to be used in a track and simply trigger when the chords change. There's enough variety that I can get the song idea down.

So - making a long story shorter:

If you need to autogenerate backing tracks, there is nothing else on the market like BIAB/RB.

If you need modern flexibility and utility of recording software, most other products on the market - even low priced offerings - have more features. If you like those features (midi tempo communication between plugins and the host, automation flexibility, ReWire, modular signal routing within the host, etc.) then you likely use a 2nd program to do these things.

No harm, no foul.

It would be cool if these long term (some for 5+ years) wishlist items would get included in RB, then it gets much closer to calling BIAB/RB both the best autoaccompaniment software in the market AND a great DAW to boot. Those of us that do use this latter list of items regularly have been yammering on for 5+ years about some of them - we speculate whether they can even be done, since it seems like these would remove what we perceive as inequality as a "Digital Audio Workstation", but then again, this is not what the thread title uses - it uses "Sequencer", which for a long time meant MIDI only, and some of the items like the automation and VSTi/VST tempo use, are standard fare even in other midi-centric sequencing function of other DAW softwares.

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