Again, thanks Matt. That's a great comparison. I understand how the real tracks work. I found myself focusing on the midi melody track sound while comparing.

What PG-Music might consider is upgrading this page to make the samples a database that can easily be kept up to date with the latest competing midi synth options available. The question becomes "What might go in each database record and how might this information be presented to the BIAB user?". Here are ideas.

Synth Products database which has an associated list.
.....Name
.....Company
.....Software or hardware synth
.....Comments maybe. How it works, etc.
.....Link to the company product web page
.....a link to help on installing it

Samples Database within each song.
.....pointer to the Synth Products database record to get the Synth name and company
.....The sample.
.....A link to pull up the above product information for the specific product.


The products list could be before or after the song samples (something the database designer and PG Music management would work out). Either way as a new synth comes out and is entered in the PG Music database it gets applied automatically to both the products list and the song samples.

This clearly would be a great aspect to the course. I think it would be the graduation stage of the course. Picture it. One hears the improvements, chooses one, goes directly to knowing how to install it and use it and earlier in the course they learned all the prerequisite knowledge needed to understand what they were doing at a deeper level. When one starts the course one is made aware of the final graduation benefit of this page. More food for PG Music's thoughts.

Last edited by bowlesj; 06/21/20 02:34 PM.
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