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With nearly 2000 styles, and the hundres of norton styles it is there for whatever one wants.



I am truly bewildered by the 'antis' who seem to be deaf to what we MIDI users are doing and what we are asking for. The whole point of the OP and of my additional comments is that the above JUST ISN'T SO. Quit trying to tell us that it is.

Our needs in terms of MIDI styles have progressed beyond what PG presently offers. We are simply asking that PG continue to develop what has, up to now, been done easily and well by them.

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But we frequently hear folks say I want a style like "xxxxxxx" and almost every time someone comes up with a style either here or at Notes site that covers it . . .



"Almost." In most cases, probably so. Not in mine.

The reason I bought BIAB in the first place was to take the place of having to step program drum parts, which was the available technology at the time. (Anybody want a lightly-used KORG DDM-110?) I continued to use it because it does the same with other parts as well.

My requirements have morphed beyond the basics precisely because of what BIAB does so well--help to create original music. I have progressed from creating or covering standard pop music into composing original electronic music that would otherwise require a heavy investment in hardware sequencers and programming time.

You and others are telling me to create our own Styles. Fine. We have the ability to do so. Just realize that you are asking/requiring us to spend time on nuts and bolts instead of creating music, which is why we got BIAB in the first place.

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. . . and if there is not one can be made using the hybred method.



Not if the component parts aren't available. Read our collective lips: THEY AREN'T.*

Someone up in Vancouver has done a fantastic job of creating the existing MIDI styles. We simply ask that they not abandon us po' MIDIots entirely and continue to invest some effort in their excellent MIDI Styles.

R.


*I would like to see a more extensive range of Styles based on so-called "classic" electronic music: Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream and its component members, Kraftwerk, Kitaro, Mike Oldfield, Peter Gabriel's ambient work, and others too obscure to mention here. (I have requested this elsewhere in the Wish Lists.) PG have touched on these, and done well; we are asking for more.

"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."