Originally Posted By: BIABman
Originally Posted By: Gordon Scott

The RealTracks have the full playing style of the musician; the "playable" part is played from a MIDI segment, so any "live" expression can't easily be included. For that short part you get the slightly more robotic sound of a MIDI player, rather than the RealTrack.



OK so if I understand you correctly, when you add Playable Real Tracks
you are adding the standard RealTracks plus a midi component (which is the 'playable part')?

The two are blended together?

I was hoping that the part that was played (midi) was then somehow
turned into an audio track and merged with the RealTrack,
so the net result would be all audio.

Perhaps this will happen in the next version or sometime in the future?


You do get continuous audio. The method by which it's generated is what changes.

BIAB switches essentially seamlessly from RealTrack sound to a section of audio generated using MIDI to control audio extracted from the same RealTrack source file, then switches back to RealTrack. What you get out of the end of that is continuous audio.

It's the sforzando synthesiser that interprets the MIDI data into the audio, pretty much like any MIDI would interpreted.



I'm starting to recognise here that the words I use are sometimes confusing for people, partly because of language differences (British/American) and partly because I ascribe a specific meaning to a word that is perhaps unclear, i.e., in this case, I think "segment". In a 40-bar song, we might have 18 bars of RealTrack, two bars of "playable RealTrack" (MIDI) and 20 further bars of RealTrack. There would then be three segments of respectively 18, 2 and 20 bars duration. The first and last would be normal RealTrack play and the two-bar segment between them would comprise audio generated by sforzando.

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