[cthor]

Yeah. I think a lot of people are ignoring that the output target, MIDI, is pretty limited. A skilled producer could pretty easily take these exact notes and make a track that sounds great. Sound design makes a huge difference.

[tartoran]

And the constant velocity doesn’t help either. Almost any MIDI score could be made sounding twice as good with a little variation in velocity and slight timing errors. Speaking of which, some friends who had a video production company were picking an audio track from a commercial DVD package and there were song choice in around few dozen different styles to pick from: country, progressive rock, etc. At some point I realized that the same score that was played within different style and textures and different cadence made it sound like different songs altogehter.