There are only two kinds of music (1) good music (2) music played for somebody else

lol...i know what you mean but isnt all music played for somebody else when you think about it?

anyway as far as midi is concerned i wouldn't characterise it as 'Un-Real' even if thats just a casual half-joking short-hand to distinguish it from 'Real tracks' . Not all that is 'Real' is necessarily good. And not all that is midi is 'Un-Real'. In fact with a bit of effort it could be made almost as 'real' as the real loops are. Real tracks have a head start not because they are played live by a real drummer or instrumentalist , becasue midi live drums do that too. The real difference is in the standard of midi capture and the playback.. low resolution fails to record nuances and makes bends and expression less convincing. ...then there's patterns of only two bars length allowable in the stylemaker(why)? Also the lack of multiple dedicated pattern chains....
In contrast you have 8 or 16 bars of uninterrupted drum playing and more realistic fills in real tracks. Its bound to be better! The fact is that any major concerted attempt to get midi up to that standard will take alot of work but also one suspects some of the appeal away from the real tracks (provided you have a very good sample set of course).

As for the customised chords bob mentions well i'm afraid to say that your main competitor is still way ahead of the game in that department. In fact BIAB plus Jammer Pro make a very formidable team in that regard, if you import BIAB's pattern database into Jammer that is. Personally i'd rather i didnt have to do that. One day I look forward to BIAB having its own custom chord generator, but i won't hold my breath beacuse there have been too many disappointments down the years for that. And besides I've worked out how to do this in BIAB ..the long way..the hard way. but hey it works!

Regards

Alan