>>> Without humanizing and other tweaks, pure MIDI BIAB tracks will produce limited quality songs. That is a shade for a high level product like Band In A Box !


Our parts are already recorded live by musicians. Taking them, and "tweaking velocities" unfortunately (in our experience) just makes them sound worse, not more musical. We tried this, and the results just sounded bad, so we didn't pursue adding this into BiaB.

You should use your ears in this, not a written description though. (please listen to links below)

To my ears, when both MIDI and RealTracks are available, for many instruments (stringed instruments, horns) the RealTracks sound best.

For MIDI, I like our new MIDI SuperTracks over the older MIDI styles, and there is a good reason for that:

The newer MIDI SuperTracks that we do are done an entirely new way, not based on patterns. These have typically 40X (yes, 40 times) the amount of material than a typical "older style" instrument has. This is why the MIDI SuperTracks sound more human (because endless repitition kills the human feel, and isn't cured by velocity tweaks.)



For example, listen to the piano part here http://nn.pgmusic.com/pgfiles/audio/realtracksdemos/2088band.m4a

or here http://demos.pgmusic.com/audio/allstyledemos/_HKYTJON.m4a

This is MIDI (from a MIDI SuperTracks). Now, this sounds great to me, great playing, nice piano sound (a Hi-Q instrument that we provide, so this is exactly how it will sound for you in BiaB 2013), and it doesn't need to be made more "human" by random (or groove based) velocity/timing tweaks.


BTW, there are lots more MIDI SUperTracks demos that you can listen to here http://www.pgmusic.com/addons.supertracks.php

Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.