Thanks for sharing your secrets, Josie, PgFantastic, and Matt. I, too, like to "throw some paint on the palette" and mix and match to see what I come up with. It can be as simple as choosing a different RT instrument or as subtle as panning two similarly-ranged instruments to separate them. Fortunately, you can always go back to your BIAB song where the mix sounded so sweet to see how you made it happen--unlike my "paint palette" metaphor.

Regarding Matt's comments:

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You asked about patches that work well together. Do you know that BIAB has RealStyles, and these load pre-defined RealTracks that PG Music thinks go well together.



Absolutely. Use those all the time. I'm trying to become more creative: e.g. enhancing styles that sound too repetitive for a whole song, using more fine-tuned control to have an RT instrument "solo" around a melody, etc.

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You can also create your own RealStyle once you find a combination you like.



This is a cool feature that I have not taken advantage of yet, but it is still the same problem of being fixed to a set of instruments for the whole song (looking into sub-styles).
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Are there others of you out there itching to chime in?

Jeff