I find it very interesting that here are a couple of people who prefer everything to be midi.

To answer that you have to look at PGM's primary market. That market is for average folks who may or may not be good players, to create good backing tracks to play along with either for fun or to practice. That's it. That market went absolutely crazy for first the Real Drums, then the Real Tracks. It was the biggest thing to hit the Biab user base since the program was first created.

Backing tracks are exactly that, no more no less. Biab is not designed for higher level pros to write their next movie soundtrack with or to create good covers of hit songs.

What composers do with it is use it to get the overall feel, structure and chords correct. It really doesn't matter if it's audio or midi and it doesn't matter if you're using the best VSTi's or not. You're simply putting the thing together. At this point you don't focus on the best sound, any half decent GM synth is good enough. Then the project gets moved to a DAW and that's where you get to go crazy with multi thousand dollar sound libraries and spending days deciding just which piano, guitar, bass etc out of several dozen of each to choose from and using the the best controllers to get that perfect nuance plus some live recording or whatever else.

Biab can't work with all that stuff and was never designed for and cannot operate at the level you guys are talking about. A few years ago when this subject came up (again) I suggested that there could be two versions of Biab. One would be the standard version we have now and the other one the Awesome Cool Dude version that will sit proudly in a million dollar studio and do all this stuff. Alas, I never heard back on that...

One last comment about people asking why can't they get a midi file from an RT. The answer to that is to simply have a listen to your favorite commercial recording of your favorite artist and ask that EXACT SAME question. How do I get a midi file of that performance? Not just a midi file of that song, those are available all over the web. No, you want a midi file of WHAT YOU'RE HEARING ON THAT RECORDING.

People keep making this mistake all the time when they don't realize an RT and a studio recording of your favorite artist is the EXACT SAME THING. They're both audio files, simple as that. So the question should is this:

How do you make a midi file out of an audio file?

Bob

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