The problem with any style of music in an arranger is trying to replicate not only the authentic sounds but also the live interaction of the "band mates ". This is the real Achilles heel for arrangers or any auto accompaniment type instrument . The Blues is just one example of many .
But there are techniques that can be employed to provide the illusion of a live band playing with you . As technology advances it will get better .
The truth is chas that for me , my aspiration as a musician is bigger than my talent or the available time I have to develops the talent I have . I will never stop learning and practising but I don't have 8 hours a day to practice like cory or perhaps most of the blues players in your clip . So I have to accept some limitations not because I am lazy or don't know what excellence sounds like . I won't ever be a top piano/organ/guitar etc player but thankfully that limitation is not sufficient to block my creative processes with the help of an arranger.
Very wise words, and while we allready have some tools to spice up styles, like fills variations and such and pads with audio and arpeggias.... These are not quite enough to make it dynamic... For reasons you described, i prefer general styles, and not specific song styles, i allways try to create my own version of a song, and not replay it like the orriginal artist..
I am wayting for more AI features in styles. Which because its midi should not be that hard, they can have a parameter to comtroll the timing of a track, and another parameter to controll the note volume, the volume of individual notes.. The parameter would controll how many times this would happen at random and how much the deviation will be...
Even more interesting is round robbin, these instruments have several samples of each articulation and sometimes they just play a slightly differently played sound.. Would be great in the accompaniment
And then there is Karma tracks. Which could be made to react based on the players actions...
Anyway, those de delopers are way smarter then me and should figure out many more ideas which all together would recreate the feel of a live band around you.. Some controlled by the player, but most by the AI of the instrument...
Back to your statement, because despite all my interest in the technollogy, when i am behind my keys, i also realise i will never be a top player, and while i also try to become better as a player each day, i also find joy in playing with what an instrument has to offer me, .... But in general this is also what drives me towards new instruments with unexplored features... And then many months later i realise how much was still unexplored in the previous instrument...
But i am getting there... I play atleast 30 minutes piano each day, improving my skills... And in general play for 2 hours each day, which is a lot for someone having a full time job and a fammily to atend to....
Anyway... I write to much about me and not enough about the music..... Ians great response about the B3 now triggered me and i found a lot of documentation on how to recreate sounds and other instruments on a B3, and now i am wondering how that will work on my T5, tonight i will start spending some time with just the B3 simulation on the T5. Looking forward to it, using the instrument from a different pov will be so much fun...
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