Taking it in another direction, the use of Midi is simply the latest in the misunderstanding that the dots are the music. It doesn't really matter what notation was used, what the musician has to do is inject some spirit into the thing, or you end up with just a lifeless series of beeps, clicks and whistles. Even comparing digital transcription of analogue recordings reveals that the clipping is going the wrong way, from analogue, and the purist likely feels the same about analogue, if all you want to do is hear exactly the same thing time after time after time as a self-justificatory form of onanism, fine, however music is an evolving tradition, which means that we really should hear it from live performance for it to be at its best, speaking of and to the needs of the day, and that in turn places Folk at the cutting edge of it, because folk performers have always been among the sharpest critics of the weight of the day - as Billy Bragg would inevitably point out, and challenge you to take up his mantle, even if not necessarily so acerbically - you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.