I've been writing music for 32 years (You can visit my music pages online at D2T Music). I play - or have played - the piano, organ, trumpet, accordion, mandolin, banjo, dulcimer, and the recorder but my instrument of choice is the computer. I wrote - and use - Touchè software to add a "human" touch to my music.

Touché music software doesn't do anything that a good sequencer and hundreds of hours of labor can't accomplish. You could edit the event listing line by tedious line and get similar results, but if you want to try a slightly different interpretation of the music you have to do it all over again. Get one number wrong and you'll hear some awful howls from your speakers before you can hit the panic button.

Touché takes care of all that for you while giving you creative control with the sliders. You decide how much timing variation, velocity (volume, usually) variation, to use. You can even decide how heavily the down beats get accented from none at all to OOM pah pah.

Touché will even help musicians who just use MIDI to record their work. If you "quantize", even a little bit, to fix up some of those fumbling finger futzes you've lost that human touch in your music. Touché will put the "touch" back in your MIDI file and even gives you the capability to re-interpret a piece without re-recording it.

Whether you use Touché as a performance enhancer or as a final midi composition processor, you don't know how good your MIDI files really sound until they've been "Touchéd".

D²T