I still maintain that you are going to have something much like using a MIDI synth, but will probably sound worse. Remember, sampled sounds for MIDI are "real" instruments being played as well, and all over the forum folks seem pretty averse to using MIDI. But on a note by note basis, using individual "RealNotes" is probably going to sound pretty stiff and even choppy.

Now, it's possible to create a nice sounding melody from a palette of notes, but that's a lot of manual work that I don't think BIAB is going to do. I just don't see pushing a button and getting a satisfying melody based on selecting individual notes.

When a musician plays a phrase, it's always in the context of where he is going next, and plays accordingly. You won't get that by using individual notes not played in that context. It truly will sound like a MIDI synth, and I think probably worse, since MIDI sampled sounds are generally done to work as well as possible in different scenarios.

If PGMusic figures this out, that would be really cool and would blow everything MIDI away. I just don't see it happening without significantly changing the underlying engine for processing notes, as well as the method of entering notes and the nuances you would be looking for.

They would probably have to turn the note entry screen into a full fledged notation program, with support for all the nuances of playing. If you are just entering notes (and associated velocity), that's all you are going to get. The note entry screen would have to allow you specify how each note is to be played if you are looking for something better than MIDI. To get a satisfying melody that beats out sampled MIDI sounds, you would have to, on a note-by-note basis, be able to determine pitch, pitch bend, vibrato, loudness, style, how the note is hit, how it is released, does it slur up or down to the next note, does the tone of the next note match the previous note, etc.

But I could be wrong...

John

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