Agree with you Notes, but my original meaning of the topic was that RTs make it larely unnecessary for new users of BIAB to have anything to do with midi and that they were missing out on a hugely useful musical tool.

If I can make a prediction (always risky!) i think one of 2024's suite of 'improvements' will be making playable RT's capable of taking a keyboard input and recording parts from scratch or at least adding hooks and riffs in the right places to a generated RT.

We all know that that will in fact be mainly a midi process but BIAB will become the 'front end' of midi much the same as windows became the 'front end'of DOS.

and i note that so far noone has come forward despite Lloyd S's many requests saying 'i used to use midi but now I use playable RT's to do what i used to do in midi'.

maybe making playable RT's actually 'playable' will bring an extra functionality to BIAB without new users realising that they are really using what midi has been capable of for years.

Last edited by Bob Calver; 07/29/23 11:45 AM.