I'm an "I Only Use MIDI" guy Mac, but I don't expect everyone else to be.

I happen to really enjoy exporting MIDI files from BiaB and editing them. Adding song specific parts, adding my own arrangement ideas, moving drum rolls around, changing some of the drum instruments, changing notes in the harmony/comp parts to get the inversions I want, changing instruments, adding gradual tempo and/or volume changes, extending holds, adding or subtracting instruments from the shots, and countless other things that I can do with MIDI but not with the RTs. This allows me to put my own personal stamp on the BiaB output, and I like that.

Of course, if I had a recording studio, similar instruments to the RTs, and if I had the talent to play those instruments in the style of the people who recorded the RTs, I could edit the RTs the way I do the MIDI tracks. But it would be much more time consuming AND although I can play many instruments, I can't get the same tone as every other player out there nor can I cop their individual technique.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing the RTs or the combination of MIDI and RT, fortunately BiaB is flexible enough to accommodate all three kinds of users.

MIDI has been around for a long time, and it is still a very valid professional and amateur tool. This is a compliment to the people who devised the very flexible system back in the dark ages of synth manufacturing.

Many pop records are 100% synth based, drums and all, and in this day and age that means MIDI. Even if it is the MIDI connection between the synth drum and the sound module, or the keys on the keyboard and the internal synth module.

So MIDI is far from dead.

I just hope that PG Music never abandons MIDI for those of us who really enjoy tweaking the files and putting our own individual stamp on the music that we play.

I would wish for PG to support diminished triads, a build-it-yourself chord dialog box so that unusual chords could be built, support for multiple synths, higher resolution (240 ppq or higher), real crescendos/diminuendos, real ritardandos/accelerandos, and all continuous controllers. Perhaps Peter and his fine staff have some of those for me in the future.

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