So, are we making music? Or are we searching for music?
How long do you spend listening to hundreds of search results each time you make music?
After listening to them, do you still have the mood to make music?
Faced with thousands or hundreds of search results, I believe that few people in the world would click to listen.
<< So, are we making music? Or are we searching for music? >>Neither. I answered the question for this post "Make RealTrack more versatile?"
My response is about auditioning a RealTrack instrument in all the various ways it was recorded for PG Music. I made an example where once the RealTracks have been loaded into BIAB, this process 'auditions' 18 Quinn Bachard 12 string acoustic guitar RealTracks over a chord progression. Once the RealTracks are loaded, playing the SGU file allows the user to hear all 18 of these instruments in one minute to aid in the selection of one or more of these instruments to use in what in most cases is a BIAB music project that has already been chosen by the user.
<< How long do you spend listening to hundreds of search results each time you make music? >>I'm able to use BIAB search tools in a way that always reduces the search results to less than 100. Most searches are less than two minutes. There's 11,929 Styles and 4,099 RealTrack instruments in my version of BIAB. I never start a search with either of those numbers.
<<After listening to them, do you still have the mood to make music? >>Always
<< Faced with thousands or hundreds of search results, I believe that few people in the world would click to listen >>The 'audition' SGU file is 18 instruments playing over a one minute period.
BIAB has many options and tools, categories and ways to search that can produce reasonable and manageable search results.