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Quite a few acts mix real stringed instruments, guitars, bass, also sometimes real horns, with keyboards today and more often than in the past, those keyboards are... MIDI keyboards.


Just sayin'...


--Mac



I fully agree, but 90% of the time a person is PLAYING those keyboards, and the midi is triggering the sounds that the musician is inputting in real time.

And when it is being used to generate a backing track is a FULL band setting there are enough live musicians to cover it. By default the live musicians make the midi "breath" some, due to the human element that is playing over top of the midi. It is not the same in a solo or duo setting IMHO.

My comment was about using midi backing tracks to perform over, just letting them play while folks strum or sing over the top of them. In that situation midi is not something that will make me want to sit thru 4 hours of a show.

Your demo of Peg for the SD2 is one of the RARE exceptions to the stiff sounding Midi that folks are use to, but truth be told I have never heard a solo-duo OMB that had that level of quality all night...and even with the great sounds of the SD2, it still sound's "synthetic"....but WAY more bearable than most out there.

At the end of the day it boils down to how you want to spend your money, listening to an artist/duo + midi, listening to an artist/duo + Real Tracks, or listening to an artist/duo + studio musicians from their release playing in the background....we will take the last 2 any day. Of course there is also the choice of listening to an artist/duo raw with NO backing tracks at all, which is totally acceptable!

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