Originally Posted By: Lloyd S
"Can you do an equally good job using Playable RealTracks as you can with MIDI and high quality samples"?

One of the things a number of MIDI instruments will do is map other sounds onto notes that are illogical(?) to use for the instrument.

I'm thinking here of a particular bass I use, where out-of-range notes do things like add percussive effects, add finger squeaks, slaps and coerce the hand position. And also of the SWAM instruments where the sounds are produced by modelling, not samples. These and others allow one to do things that are likely just not available in RTs, or possibly even deliberately avoided in RTs. Doing this stuff in MIDI, though, can be quite hard work and take quite some time. RTs are closer to instant.

I think one can do an equally good job with RTs and MIDI, but the meaning of "good" can be very different and for different reasons.

Putting that another way, RTs and MIDI are each only 'best' for particular circumstances.

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