I always thought of 'midi' as sort of a language, a set of instructions, like "turn on this strobe light" or any other instruction you wish to convey to any electronic device that can understand and respond to the instruction. So if I send a midi message to a controller to 'turn off the light' or just flip the switch manually, will the quality of the light be different? I mean, c'mon, you guys make it sound as if midi is some kind of sound entity unto itself.

Soooooo, is an (uneditable) audio loop triggered by a midi instruction (as a midi note would be on a conventional synth) audio or midi? Just asking. And isn't the flexibility of being able to configure individual notes more desirable in an arranger setting, than being slave to a phrase that's already been played and recorded and can't be altered? I can see the advantage of the playing to a drum track that was pre-recorded for A SPECIFIC SONG, but beyond that, the compromises necessary for 'real audio' seem to outweigh the 'feel' advantage of RECORDED live drums.

This is just an opinion based on not having heard the Audya approach to drums and I could certainly be persuaded that my assumptions are in error. I've got a feeling that there are still things about this whole 'approach' that I don't know. That's nothing new .

chas