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"There is no market drive by pgmusic to try and get a younger user group."

I respectfully disagree with that one.
Many youngun's can benefit greatly from RB and even BiaB.



And as you might expect, I respectfully disagree with Bob here.

There's been several posts that 'youngsters' don't want to learn MIDI- things to that effect.

I'm not saying that younger people wouldn't benefit from PG products, but I don't think they are using them. Some 'youngsters' are doing things with MIDI that most here have never dreamed of.

What they are not doing is using General Midi in many respects. In fact, many of them are using MIDI and synthesis in a way that pre-dates General Midi, in that they are into Tracker sequencers, arepeggiation as a musical device, actually programming synthesizers (albeit mostly soft-synths), etc. For an example of what I am referring to, I'll point you to just one guy I've recently discovered over on the FAWM challenge site. If you click this link, you can hear the work that he has done this month: http://fawm.org/fawmers/erothyme/

I tire of hearing that the younger folks 'just want it easy', etc. While this may be true for some, it is not the rule.

The persons in this forum probably are not an accurate sampling of PG customers, but it is highly likely that PG customers are skewed to an older generation because of the focus of PG products on General MIdi backing, and now the real-band backing.

This isn't to say that there is not a market for these types of products; certainly there is. But the PG focus is not definitely not targeting the mainstream of younger computer-based musicians.

For a contrast; join in at www.kvraudio.com forums and run the same question up the flag pole there. You will see skewness the opposite direction in the demographic; as well as hearing a wholly and fundamentally different focus to the music. Active members on that forum number in the thousands each month.

I used to try to make some noise in this forum about how antiquated the packaging and marketing of PG products seems to be - but I tired of the effort. Young folks today expect professional design in all products they use - from an aesthetic standpoint. One does not see this with PG products packaging/marketing.

Anyway, I think pwhack's assessment is right on the money. Again, not saying younger folks couldn't benefit, but there exists very little evidence PG is trying to reach them.

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