I really appreciate the feedback on the DXi’s. I’ve learned a lot from your suggestions.

No doubt that I’m going to have to change DXi’s in order to get “a good GM synth that loads up and just plays with Biab is when you go through a bunch of different songs with different instrumentation”, since “bluegrass” is only one of the styles I play.

One thing I have also concluded is that even when I do upgrade the DXi, whether by software or hardware, is that I’ll still be facing the problem of not having styles programmed in 8th notes for acoustic, (aka bluegrass), music.

I hesitate to use the term “bluegrass” because people who don’t play acoustic music with “traditional” instruments get a mindset that you are talking about “Flatt & Scruggs” style music when you say bluegrass, when nothing could be further from the truth.

The acoustic styles of music that I, (and most of my friends over the years), play would fall into numerous categories ranging from fiddle tunes, traditional, Irish, New Acoustic, newgrass, jazzgrass, Dawg, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, acoustic country, old time country, alternative country, etc.

Most people who don’t play these styles and then hear it, would throw it all into one lump and call it “bluegrass” because of the acoustic instruments.

There really aren’t any styles in BIAB to address most of these categories because they are all programmed in 16th notes instead of 8th’s. Even the ones that are labeled as 8th’s are actually 16th's, unless I’ve missed one somewhere.

Bob

Bob
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