Originally Posted By: Tangmo
Jazzmammal, your analysis is correct if you're talking about emulating a professional performance. I'm talking about capabilities already existing in midi editing being made more user friendly regardless of the samples/sounds. The quality and number of the sample(s) does not change the message that a midi file sends. Or maybe it does? I don't really know, but I think I'm right.

My own midi-editing was almost exclusively adding/subtracting notes, adjusting the length of a note, and re-positioning "events" to play different notes. The editor itself was capable of ending double-stops for monophonic instruments with a click. Instrument specific parameters? Beyond that, I could have (if able and willing) adjusted other parameters such as vibrato, fades, etc. I don't know if I could have made a trumpet growl, but with a combo of parameters, I could certainly get whatever sample I was using to deliver a more realistic "performance". Beyond that, BIAB did much of that work for me in writing the tracks. Humanized, embellished, and "intelligent".

To my understanding, this is the point where the quality and depth of the samples kicks in--not the midi data itself. It was just too blinking hard to do much more than I did--and that was hard enough to get started. My "wish" is simply for a better interface between user and midi-editing. You may be right that it is not forthcoming, but if it did, midi could be easier.

I'd be willing to pay as much as $199.99 for something that could deliver.


Tangmo, what you are asking for is already available in most DAWs. Cakewalk is free and will do all that you want. I use Presonus Studio One Pro and that also does a lot with MIDI, again as does most other high end DAWs. Also it is very easy to drag and drop an entire BiaB song into any DAW.

Lets keep Biab as it is and not turn it into a DAW. Let also have more MIDI super tracks, (what a dumb name for non-sequenced MIDI tracks!)

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