I recently started assisting in some country music productions where I used BIAB to help flesh out an arrangment for a demo. In the course, the singer stated he wished he could have a pedal steel guitar on his headphone mix for a song.

I surprised him by using the Real Tracks pedal steel from the Real Tracks country style that ships with regular BIAB. It actually worked pretty well for a background sound for a headphone mix ... but was obviously not really adequate for serious production.

After I found several other Real Track instruments I thought would be useful ... the usual suspects of pedal steel, sax, fiddle and dobro that don't translate well or easily from midi ... I thought I would research the Audiophile pak.

I contacted PG Music sales and asked them if the information about the specific original keys used in recording each Real Track was available. They responded ... over a series of e-mails ... that, no, this was not available, but that each instrument would plays the "full range of chords" and that the number of original key recordings done for each instrument varied.

I was a little disappointed because I would like to be able to minimize any pitchshifting, if not avoid it entirely ... but I did agree that pitch shifting of +/- 2 semitones could be acceptable.

So I then asked if they could tell me how many original key recordings were done for each of the specific instruments above that I was insterested in. They responded that this information was unavailable.

That was very disappointing as now I had no way to know whether a single Real Track was in fact going to be shifted a full +/- six semitones or more.


Any one have any insight o this?

Prado

Edited for typos.

Last edited by Prado; 02/04/11 03:11 PM.