While the Realtracks cannot be made to play a defined Melody, use of MIDI on the Melody and/or Soloist tracks can easily make that happen.

Use of a good quality MIDI synth, plus taking advantage of the fact that addition of Realtracks and Realdrums in the autoaccompaniment style greatly masks the use of the "MIDI" sound can work quite well.

Of course, choice of Instrument Patch may be as important as use of that good quality MIDI synth as well, it seems that certain instrument patches lend themselves to sounding more realistic than other attempts, for reasons of Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release found in the sample set. For example, emulating a real guitar or horn may be a bit more problematic using MIDI Patches, in some cases. MIDI sounds such as Pianos, Vibes, Organs, Marimba, Clavinet, etc. -- those sounds where there is the same attack on every note anyway, are often more convincing to my ears whereas a Horn or Guitar track may not be able to emulate the slurring, hammer-on and pulloff sounds of the guitar or horn.

When Realtracks and Realdrums were first introduced, many of us immediately noticed that situation mentioned, the addition of one or two MIDI tracks, when played back with Realtrack/Realdrums accompaniment really does serve to "mask" that "MIDI" sound.


--Mac

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