Earl, that was very well stated and you must have been reading my mind when you wrote it, as I also like midi over RTs. That’s not to say I’m against RT’s. I have used a few of them in the past and will probably use some in the future but I find midi much more useful for me. RT’s are a specially tool for me and not a bread-and-butter tool.

I use some old hardware synths and I have many soft-synths and one sampler, Kontakt. I like soft-synths/samplers as they can be a good emulation of the hardware synths at a fraction of the cost.

I’m also concerned about RT’s being the main thrust in PG Music’s development, but I see that as a very good business decision. They have developed a product that many people really while not taking anything away from us midi users. Selling RT’s could become the main thrust in PG Music. Take a tenor sax for example. Think about how many ways it can be played and how many tones it can produce. Now multiply those factors by the number of sample sets needed to cover all of the tempos. You would have many of tenor sax RT sets, each sold separately, to cover everything.

I would like more midi styles also. I have asked Santa for some of Note Norton’s styles. But I modify just about every style in Sonar so getting the perfect style isn’t necessary for me.

Thanx for starting this topic.

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