im with you hellboy, i do the same with my midis, even to the point of making sure the "drummer" is only playing instruments and notes that can be played with 2 hands, and not an octopus, as some midis are...further, a percentage of my midis have just drums/bass and perhaps 1 guitar, i play the rest, sometimes just the drums and i play the bassline and keyboards, and a few are also full "production" numbers, they have to be (New York, New York comes to mind!!)...i also agree with zuki that a lot of midis sound like rubbish, but you DO need to tweak them, as donny and fran have suggested...sure it can be the same "sanfransisco" file, but when tweaked fot individual interpretation, it will be different....
dennis

[This message has been edited by miden (edited 06-17-2007).]