Can BB (v2011 316b) be set so that it will automatically select different (and perhaps more appropriate) Real Styles/Real Tracks depending on whether or not slower or faster tempos being given to the original tempo in any given song? Or does BB keep the current RS/RT and stretch its original tempo to fit or cover any newly requested tempo change.

If I’m not being clear in the first paragraph, please allow me to write a few more words to elaborate.

My experience with some of the recent BB versions that featured Real Styles and Real Tracks, was that, if I inserted a tempo change that was drastically different from the originally saved tempo, the program would automatically search for Real Styles and/or Real Tracks that were more in-line with the newly requested tempo change, load, then play that different style or track.

My experience with the most current BB versions is that, with the current superior capabilities of tempo stretching, any song’s currently saved RS/RT will be kept and stretched to fit any newly issued tempo. The automatic selection of a more appropriate RS/RT that more closely relates to a new tempo feature seems to have been discarded. Am I wrong? I hope I am!

Is there a setting in Preferences or somewhere that will allow me to have the program automatically load then play a totally different Real Style based on the new tempo I set for a given song?

For instance:

I load a jazz bebop-type swing tune that has been saved at 140 bpm with sticks-drums and walking bass.

However, this is too fast for some of my current students, so for them, I temporarily change the tempo to 60 bpm.

In earlier versions, BB would automatically get a ballad style with brushes drums and a different bass for the ballad rendition.

But now, the same original 140 bpm sticks-drums style is kept, “stretched” and made to fit this new 60 bpm using the original sticks-drums and walking bass instrument assignments. It sound great with the superior tempo stretching capabilities but I still would like to have the option to make the program automatically get a “ballad” style if I drop the tempo from 140 down to 60 and vice versa.

Is that feature still in the present version?

I apologize for the logorrhea but this feature(!) or former feature(?) is kind of important to me.

Any kind words on the matter will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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