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I will respectfully disagree with you on two issues.

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But the argument I keep hearing from the MIDI side of the fence is that it is PGMusic's responsibilty to keep creating the styles instead of creating music software, which is why they got in the business in the first place.......

The old MIDI standard is pretty much fully supported in the SYSTEM provided by PGMusic. But there is some proprietary development to MIDI... libraries that achieve phenomenal realism by extending the scope of existing MIDI attributes and samples. Once that technology is fully developed and becomes mainstream, I expect that PG will either license the technology or find a way to incorporate the best of the best into "the system"




Although creating more styles would be nice I want PGMusic to improve the MIDI system. They are not “pretty much fully supported” when MIDI resolution is locked at 120 PPQ and there is only one MIDI out port. My old Atari had 960 PPQ MIDI resolution and most all MIDI people use more than just general midi.

Other improvements I would like to see that would help both sides of the fence is the ability to place more than four chords per measure and the ability to place chords at 16th note intervals. Just think of the improvement in styles if this were to occur.

The above four suggestions are not new ideas nor are they propriety developments. They have been around for years however PGMusic has not incorporated them into BiaB; my guess is that it would take a complete rewrite to do so. The risk in not improving the MIDI side is other companies my come up with a better product.

Just my USD $0.02.



The ports and PPQ are both addressed in RB. Since number of ports is more of a live performance requirement, and BIAB is the auto-accompaniment program, it does surprise me that additional ports have never been added. But going back to the SYSTEM vs COMPONENT way of looking at it, 3rd party components like MIDI YOKE allow more ports. They may feel that as long as its possible, it doesn't matter whether they provide the component as long as they provided a HOOK for the component (I can't speak for PGMusic, obviously. I'm just offering my own thoughts here)

Seems to me that PPQ is more important in recording, so RB is the place for that .

But you're right about the risk of getting sidelined when somebody else comes up with a better product. I have to believe they put considerable thought into their strategy. Watching from the sidelines, they seem to be gaining customers, not losing them.

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