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Bob "Notes" Norton  Norton Music
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100% MIDI Super-Styles recorded by live, pro, studio musicians for a live groove
& Fake Disks for MIDI and/or RealTracks
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You might even get away with just one comparison page on your site.
On that page, pick one song and demo it as many ways as you want (sound card, basic soft synth, superior soft synth, then one or more of your hardware synths.
Write a blurb about how the quality comes from the sound source, as these samples demonstrate.
Then anywhere else on your site where you think a comparison might be needed, just add a link to that page.
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Bob "Notes" Norton Norton Music
https://www.nortonmusic.com
100% MIDI Super-Styles recorded by live, pro, studio musicians for a live groove
& Fake Disks for MIDI and/or RealTracks
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Hi,
Just joined the forum...
>> Would that be cheating?
Cheating is in the eye of the beholder... I wouldn't think so but, someone who was expecting to create a Top 40 masterpiece without any input to the process, may think otherwise.
You could have a "What's possible" page and a link to it from the demo pages that shows what the "xxxxxxx" style sounds like if using a inexpensive sound card, what it would sound like with an expensive sound card, what it would sound like with a inexpensive sound module, and what it would sound like with a expensive sound module, and then an "all out"... follow theses steps and create a truly professional recording.
I've exported MIDI out of BIAB, pulled it into a sequencer program, changed the instruments that were defaulted (bass, guitar, piano, strings, and drums) into other GM voices, added some tweaking, then sent the MIDI to a expensive sound module, and was very, very, very pleased with my results.
You'd be selling yourself short, not to show what COULD be done by an amateur, and what could be done by an accomplished person.
Randy
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Thanks for your input Randy.
Exporting MIDI into a sequencer like Power Tracks or even in Real Band and then editing, including changing instruments is one of the strong points of MIDI.
I've taken hip-hop styles (new jack swing) that were written for rap music and made some very nice smooth jazz songs out of them. Change the drums to a light kit, change the synths to rhodes, muted guitar, etc., and it's amazing what you can do.
Too many people dis MIDI because they are using the MS or Apple soft synth that came with their computers. These are good for gaming and not much else. Oh, I've used them for practice when I didn't care to turn on my synth rack. Even then, the semi-lame VSC that used to come with BiaB is much better than the MS "Wavetable" synth.
On my Win7 computers, I never even installed any soft synths, but go straight to my external synths. I have enough USB ports to keep the MIDI rack permanently hooked up.
Right now I'm going with the idea of having two demos for each new style (and eventually the older ones). One PC and one Pro. The PC will use either the MS Soft-Synth or another Soft-Synth that comes bundled with BiaB. I still do a lot of style writing on an XP computer, so many of the PC demos will be on the VSC.
Right now it's the end of gigging season and income tax time so there will be a slight delay.
Thanks all for the suggestions, and don't be shy, keep them coming. I can't have too much input from the users of the program.
Bob
Bob "Notes" Norton Norton Music
https://www.nortonmusic.com
100% MIDI Super-Styles recorded by live, pro, studio musicians for a live groove
& Fake Disks for MIDI and/or RealTracks
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