While I agree, the real tracks sound better, they are only about 1% as editable than the MIDI tracks are.

I find that with a good MIDI synth, I can get sounds 90% good as the Real Tracks, and I can edit them to the point where the actually work better. So if the RT isn't exactly what I want, I go back to MIDI.

I use a Ketron SD2 General MIDI synth to start with. Ketron has newer synths now, but I also have a dozen others, and they don't seem that much better in voice quality.

So it depends on how deep you want to go into the music.

A few simple edits:

If I make the song in MIDI, save it, and open it in a DAW, I can do simple edits like:

Change sounds
* That guitar sound might be better as a clavinet, or distorted guitar, or piano, or whatever
* That cymbal might be better as a cowbell
* That acoustic bass might sound better as an electric or synth bass

Move drum rolls around with a copy and paste

Get the shots and holds to sound like you want them to sound

And so on. There are literally thousands of things you can do with MIDI that you cannot do with pre-recorded audio tracks.

Fortunately, BiaB has both, so I can use Real Tracks when they are better and MIDI tracks when editing is a benefit.

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