There is no doubt about this in my mind Scott. I've done plenty of studio work for myself and other musicians, and while I may not qualify as an expert in the purest sense because I don't do it full time, I've worked alongside pros that do and agree as well.

Here is another thing to look for, and the reason I don't use XG works any more, even though it has 480 ppq. In my last post I said, "Hiccups happen when too many events are all trying to happen at the same time. Midi can't do that. It does a good job of faking it when you have good resolution and a fast machine, but midi logic dictates that each event has to occur in a sequential order. "

I should have said that SOME midi programs do a good job of quickly processing the event changes ( which happen of course in sequential order.. not at the same instant ) . XG works freaks out if you try to have too many cc / event / note changes occuring at the same instant. You can hear it... but you can also see it visually by watching the time line that travels along the piano roll or measures window "stumble" at the spot where the changes occur. I was hoping that it was because I had a slow machine before ( 800 mhz and 256 mb ram ) that maybe the program needed a better environment, but I also know from experience that most midi programs that don't have a lot of other things going on ( audio playback.. midi effects, vst etc,... ) won't usually tax a computer very much at all. As I had suspected, it didn't improve at all when I switched to a 2.4 gig, 512 mb ram machine. Unfortuantely, Jammer Pro ( both 4 and 5 ) stumble like this too at times, although not nearly as much.

This never happens in Sonar or N Track studio, and I can run midi and DX effects galore ( VST in Ntrack as well ) , along with audio playback and no timing problems. I haven't used the SQ1 software that came with the Motif ES very much yet, but like XG works.. it hosts my software plug in voice editors for the ES, so if it works well I'll be pretty happy.

AJ


[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 10-25-2003).]