You are absolutely right on this one. I loaded the following style that contains RT590: I tried this on 2 computers, did the factory reset, standard sound card, in other words nothing exotic. Everything is running on the hard drive, no external USB drive used.

_DOCBGMS.STY. Slow Bluegr. Mand. Solo (100 RS)
All RealTracks. Quintet.
RD: NASHVILLEEVEN8^8-HIHATO,RIDE :
RT592: Bass, Acoustic Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, Dow Tomlin
RT590: Banjo, Bluegrass Doc Ev 100 (Rhythm - Simple), Scott Vestal
RT598: Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, PG Artist
RT820: Mandolin Soloist Bluegrass Ev 100, Andy Leftwich

My chords were a simple C-G-D-C straight 4/4 time in the key of G

When I clicked on play there is no banjo coming out of the speakers. When I clicked on SOLO, no sound came out of the speaker. I then changed the first 4 chords to C2-G2-D2-G2 and the banjo plays just fine. I then changed the chords to C2-G2-D2-C2-C-G-D-C. When BIAB played C2-G2-D2-G2 everything is fine but when it got to measures 5 through 8 (C-G-D-C) the banjo died again.

Then tried the following various chords where Y=I hear the banjo and N=I hear no banjo.

C2 - Y
G7 - N
D6 - Y
G13 - Y
Cmin - N
GMaj7 - Y
D9sus - Y
Gaug - Y
Csus - Y
Gdim - Y
Dm7 - Y
G5 - Y
C - N
G - N
D - N
G - N

I then loaded the following style which DOES NOT have 590 as part of the RealTrack and everything works just fine.

_BG_BNJR.STY. Bluegrass Pop (100 RS)
All RealTracks. Quintet.
RD: NASHVILLEEVEN8^2-SIDESTICK,HIHAT :
RT592: Bass, Acoustic Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, Dow Tomlin
RT598: Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, PG Artist
RT589: Banjo, Bluegrass Doc Ev 100 (Rhythm), Scott Vestal
RT599: Mandolin, Rhythm Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, PG Artist

I then tried other bluegrass RT's that DO NOT contain 590 and it works just fine.

Almost Done: I loaded another RT that DOES contain 590

_DOCBG_F.STY. Med Bluegrass w Fiddle (100 RS)
All RealTracks. Quintet.
RD: NASHVILLEEVEN8^8-HIHATO,RIDE :
RT592: Bass, Acoustic Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, Dow Tomlin
RT590: Banjo, Bluegrass Doc Ev 100 (Rhythm - Simple), Scott Vestal
RT598: Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, PG Artist
RT593: Fiddle, Rhythm Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, Andy Leftwich

And it also has no banjo when the same chords are played as listed above.

AND FINALLY I took a known good style which I always use and works perfectly on the banjo part on all chords:

_BG_BNJR.STY. Bluegrass Pop (100 RS)
All RealTracks. Quintet.
RD: NASHVILLEEVEN8^2-SIDESTICK,HIHAT :
RT592: Bass, Acoustic Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, Dow Tomlin
RT598: Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, PG Artist
RT589: Banjo, Bluegrass Doc Ev 100 (Rhythm), Scott Vestal
RT599: Mandolin, Rhythm Bluegrass Doc Ev 100, PG Artist

and then changed RT589 to RT590 and it fails again on the banjo on the same chords. When back to #589 for the banjo and everything works perfectly again.

After all this testing, it certainly looks like the culprit is #590

I would classify this as a definite bug that needs to be looked at. Good find.

Last edited by jcland; 01/16/11 07:47 AM.