Scott,

I agree totally on that one. The PA80 uses 384 ppq and still I can never make ( or even alter ) a style that "lives" and breathes like a real performance should. For live work, it isn't a real big issue to me at all because I try to keep the focus on my own playing and entertaining the folks I'm playing for. Still, better resolution would be nice to have. For composing though, 384 is unacceptable to me.

I've experimented by recording a piece ( of my live play .. realtime.. no styles ) at 480 ppq via midi ( using xg works ) and digital audio ( monophonic ) simultaneously. I then assigned the midi playback through my kb to one monitor and the recorded audio to the other. I got them to sync as close to perfect as possible. When I played them together, my ears could detect a discernible difference. Some of the nuances were lost in the midi file reproduction. I tried this again in Sonar at 960 ppq, and this time both the midi playback and the audio sounded exactly the same to me.

AJ