Lets stay on Piano for a minute. Lots of those other instruments open up a can of worms. smile

I want to distinguish between capturing/recording or generating the midi AND the software instrument which plays the midi. I don't use GM sound synths to play midi. I have many midi-instruments in my DAW, including Pioanoteq ($149) and many others. I am sure these have the capability of creating midi which can contain all the whistles and bells - if I know how to play them.

But I have to get my midi tracks generally from other pre-made sources. Like BIAB. So I am trying to understand the quality of the BIAB midi data (and forgive if I am beating a dead horse - I really am trying to comprehend here)

In my study of the BIAB MST-midi and RT-midi within Reaper I can see that there is a considerable about of metadata including CC's and velocity data in both. Here is a picture which shows what is provided in a BIAB midi file to my DAW for use in high end sound synths. This confirms to me that I am getting good piano midi from BIAB. I assume not all the BIAB midi is this detailed but the few I have now looked at, look just like this picture. Perhaps I am over analyzing - I tend to do that (a carry over from the day job) smile . I am going to look closer at some of my other sources of midi data to see how they compare to BIAB in terms of metadata.

Or maybe the bottom line is just, how does it sound? To me, a lot of the BIAB midi sounds I use are very good.

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