Originally Posted by Rustyspoon#
jpettit,
Nice breakdown.
However I would prefer a simpler family hierarchy tree that ends in "Type"
(CAT-----INSTR----TYPE: List)
(Strings > Guitar > Acoustic: List )

and then use/apply separate filters that are not a part of the tree: feel, tempo(range), etc., but so that they "remember" (respect) prior selection. I believe it's called "nested" sorting.
Thanks, it's just thinking out loud right now as another primary way to slice the database, so people see BIAB has thousands of session players. That hierarchy was created by a chat GTP using PGM's actual first level instrument names.

PGM attempted to start to auto load the filters in 2024, but they only went about halfway, and their instrument hierarchy just use the old GM MIDI Hierarchy instead of the coding the true hierarchy lists something like what I have shown. At any rate It currently does not associate the instrument or genre of the current style. They should at least finish that code this year and put a lot more work into a true instrument hierarchy for 2025.

As well as, for people who know what a rhythm sounds like, a way to "play it in" to help find the correct phrasing and feel similar to what Toontracks has been doing for a few years.

Chat GTP suggest these terms for the hierarchy levels, but some may be too technical:

Category: This is the broadest level of classification.
Family: This is a more specific level of classification within a category.
Type: This term can be used to further classify within a family.
Subtype: This term is used for an even more specific level of classification within a type.
Class: This term is often used in scientific classifications, especially in biology, and is more specific than subtype.
Order: This is another term used in scientific classifications and is more specific than class.
Group: This is the most specific term and can be used at various levels of a hierarchy.

Then you need to further filter by Feel, BPM, Note duration and genre styles.

It's important to note that PGM has done a fairly decent job of consistently using a background hierarchy just in the naming of their Real tracks. This work just needs to be pulled out into active hierarchical lists.

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