well...

before Bob posted...I was coming back in to say to Mac (& others) that...the thing that worries me about loops (prerecorded audio samples) is that, obviously they have to be resampled or stretched or shrunk or have the tails manipulated, etc., to accomodate the tempo of the composition...which has to have an effect on the quality of the audio...or at least how natural the audio sounds. even if it's a simplistic situation whereby a note is recorded from a grand piano at three or four different durations; & the biab coding places a short fade on the end of the clip & then the clip is 'slip edited' to accomodate different lengths (slip editing retains the length of the fade while the length of the clip itself is reduced)...even that would result in an un-natural sound.

then Bob came back before me & said basically that, more or less.

& the thing I like about MIDI is the fact that I can choose from hundreds of instrument sounds. & lets face it...when you sit down & record audio from a digital piano...the keys are sending MIDI messages to an onboard synth sampler, anyway. so why not record the MIDI along w/ the analog; & gain the possibility of different instrument sounds.

[& I know the basis of my post was geared toward real piano...I'm just expanding a bit but]...

I should upgrade anyway...maybe there's something there I can use, like carolyne & bob said.

really need to get this song completed, tho...not certain which way to go...guess I'll upgrade & then make a decision from there.

thanks again, all...


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