What MIDI styles do best:

Auto-accompaniment. The background of most pop songs consist of mostly repetitious parts by the instruments, with some variables for situations like a V7 to I chord sequence at the end of a phrase, a ii V7 I progression, and so many others. This is what the StyleMaker in BiaB does very well.

Backing instruments usually suppress their individuality to work together as a group. MIDI instruments do this naturally, in fact you have to inject personal expression into them via the continuous controllers and other means to get them to speak as individuals.

What MIDI instruments do with more difficulty:

Solo parts. It's not that they cannot play solo parts, it just takes a better synth and a player who understands how to coax expression out of that synth.

For anything other than melodic percussion instruments like pianos, it takes a skillful player plus a good synth that responds not only to the continuous controllers but does it in a way that mimics the way the instrument responds.

I like to play the melody and improv solos myself. That is what is most joyful and creative for me to do. Why let another musician who pre-recorded his/her part have all the fun?

If I didn't want to play the melody myself, the ideal would be to use MIDI styles for the background and if there was an appropriate melody RealTrack, use it for the melody.

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