Whilst there's some fabulous real tracks for piano, few of them cater for very slow ballads. I've tried to create ballads using real tracks with a tempo of 50 or less and they just don't sound good. I have to use midi. Somebody mentioned in a wish re Hawaiian real tracks ( myself included ). Atypical Hawaiian ballad is very slow & smoochy as are many celtic airs.
In the 3/4 waltz tempo for example the piano just doesn't cope with tempos below 40 even using 1/2 time. For my latest composition I've had to use a real keyboard player as the piano & guitar both struggle with the slow tempo. To be able to use biab I've had to play it twice & speed it up 2nd time round and increase the tempo to 50

+1 on that.
I'm having just that problem - see http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=235962#Post235962

cheers
ian

Cheers Ian, good to hear from you. We definately need slower tempos for real tracks !

In the meantime I took Macs advice and looked at some of the midi super tracks and midi styles.
By isolating the piano from them I got a workable result on a tune i'm running at 65 bpm - Highland Cathedral. You might know it.
Ian

Know it well Ian, in fact I was one of the first accordionists to pick up on it in this area. Many Scots have no idea it was written by two Germans tee hee

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