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Let's start with the assumption that the people who frequent this forum comprise a reasonably random sample of PGMusic's customer base.



Questionable, Pat. I would suggest that the younger members of the PGMusic customer base (yes there must be some) have comparatively less time to devote to their home music hobby than the - how can I put this - more mature members. They're busy working, socialising, looking after younger kids...that kind of thing. Clearly this group has even less time to devote to surfing the forum so I think you'll find the sample will be slightly skewed.

Marc (50, see my profile for other responses)



I am surprised by your answer because this has not been my observation at all... (but admittedly, we all view from different vantage points.) My son is a 30 something musician. I know a lot of his friends. THey all disdain BIAB and MIDI in general, opting instead for all the looping software. There seem to be two different trends among his friends: One group has really embraced the automation of music via garage band, acid and FL Studio etc, while the other groupchooses to abstain from automated music altogether and return to real musicians multi-tracking their own chops. Also, the young people I know spend a LOT more time online and in forums than their older counterparts. It is part of their lives, and they budget time for it.

It has been my experience on multiple BIAB forums that the current demographic for this software is over 50 years old, with the occasional younger user filling in the edges of the bell-shaped curve.. We played in bands during the 60s and 70s, embraced MIDI when it came out, and are still using MIDI in one way or another. For that reason, BIAB appeals to our group.

One of the principles of statistical analysis is that you can generally draw a fairly small random sample from ANY population, and the results will be indicative of the whole to a factor of about 99.xx%. This has been demonstrated over and over again in tests of all kinds.

I predict that the addition of real band (and real instruments in general) will eventually change the demographic to draw more young people who typically don't like midi and who typically prefer loop-based music programs. The purpose of this thread is to test that theory somewhat by seeing how existing customers at different ages use the software. My premise is that older customers strongly prefer BIAB/MIDI and younger customers like the Real tracks.

Or it may be that musicians who have a history of using MIDI will strongly prefer the BIABs MIDI styles, while music hobbyists and performing musicians who never got into MIDI will tend to prefer the real tracks. It might be interesting to add a few words about what each person prefers and why

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