Thank you Rachel

I did check to see that the 'Allow RealTracks substitution...' checkbox is selected in the RT Preferences and yes, it is selected. And yes, I understand what you say about certain styles not being able to go lower than 110 for instance.

The feature about which I’m writing would recognize this hypothetical 110 as a low floor limit and then it would tell BB to go a get another similar style in that tempo range and in the case of the jazz styles, there are definitely some candidates from which the the program could make a selection. I’m finding that BB no longer goes and gets a different style in the new tempo range that’s similar. It simply stretches and renders the current style so that it fits into the newly requested tempo range.

I’ll give another example using a jazz tune that uses jazz Real Tracks which were rendered at varying tempo ranges that extend from 60 to at least 160. I did this test just before writing this second message.

I loaded a swing jazz tune called “C Jam Blues” and I saved it at a tempo of 160 with a the style titled, “_JSTF_B.STY (Jazz Bop 160 RS). This style uses sticks-drums by default with a nice walking bass in the B sections.

I then set the tempo to 60. The feature that I’ve used in some of the more recent BB versions that used RSs and RTs, which seems to be MIA now, would tell BB to go and get another jazz style in the range of 60 which was usually a “Ballad” style with brushes at that tempo.

With this new tempo stretching feature, I’m finding that BB will no longer go and get a different “ballad” style with brushes. It will only stretch the current style I listed above with the default stick-drums of this style so that the sticks are playing super slowly… Again, it does a beautiful job at with stretching the tempos, so I hope no one reads my post a complaint about tempo stretching. My question is about the automatic style change feature that I used to use a lot in my classes that was present and functioning in some earlier BB versions..

Even though the 'Allow RealTracks substitution...' checkbox is selected in the RT Preferences, BB won’t go and get a substitute style even though there are jazz ballad styles in the 60 bpm range in my bailiwick of jazz styles.

I’m just trying to determine if that older feature of automatically loading and playing a different style in the newly requested tempo range has been totally cast aside or is it still available as a preference choice or check-box tick somewhere else in the program.

Thanks again, I’ll keep searching

A

None of us knows what all of us knows.