Please consider a new Style editor like a piano roll editor. I think it has be proven across the industry as the most creative way to input Midi. I think if your user community could create and share Midi styles the number of users would grow considerably.
Rsp
I want to say I really like your original idea about a sample player of some kind.
They are good. But All I am asking is BIAB create a better tool for creating and editing styles. By that I mean the Midi parts. To have to record realtime for a measure for each instrument and part A/B without the visual editor or without the capability to import for all the great Midi editors available, seems a wast.
David, you can use the piano roll editor and in the melody create the different parts you need for a style and then save to a midi file. Then you can pull the different patterns for the style back in from the midi file.
Inside the stylemaker you can select a pattern and instead of recording it, under the pull-down Pattern menu select the "Import Pattern from Midi file" option.
Just saying.
On the other hand, I definitely agree with David that the piano roll is due for a major overhaul. The dropdown menus reset at the darnedest times, and the commands are somewhat clumsy, especially the basic Create Note action (shift-ctrl-LMB). It's simply a pain to work with, compared to pretty much every other MIDI editor out there.