You can get better sounds, of course, but until we have a good way of stylizing those sounds (through pitch bends, dynamics, different articulations, etc), then you're still pretty much stuck with "note on - note off", and it won't sound real.

I think it would be cool to be able to define a MIDI style sheet for each instrument in your song (or for something like RealBand, for maybe even parts of the song). We need an easy way to indicate that we want some level of (for example) vibrato, tremelo, glissando, pitch bends, half valve or muted strings, note crescendo, decrescendo, legato, staccato, sforzandos, slurs, well you get the idea. That's what will make the instruments sound better. You can do a lot of that with Continuous Controllers, but it's a lot of work. It would be great to have an easier way to specify the style you'd like the instrument played. Sort of like having the BIAB embellisher on steroids.

If you did that, you would probably find that even the lower end synths sound a whole lot better than they do today with just "note on - note off".

John

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