Very well put Bob. GM and BiaB go hand in hand and I hope that never changes. However PGMusic could do a little more to make GM sound a little better by using non-quantized backing tracks, much like what they call SuperMidiTracks, which are really just non-quantized tracks.

But as you said to get a more realistic sounding emulation you will need a much better sound source than GM and a little MIDI control knowledge.

YMMV


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