Rob I know you aren't trying to give me a bad time, and I appreciate the interaction. What makes people people is the ability to exchange ideas. You have been at the core of some great conversation on here and this another of those times!

My bigger gripe is with the number of styles. When I hit the solo section and use Real Tracks it isn't as bad, but picking a style should not take 2 hours. My concern is that the descriptions do not really explain what I should expect when they contain people's names or a sound effects. So many words are geographic in nature.... and the "example songs" pretty much just take up screen space. I have yet to experience ONE style where the example song was even close to the style.

I started on BIAB just earlier this year so I have no way to know what you had and didn't have 3 years ago. My experience level is likely a huge part of why I post some of the things I post. If I want to sit down and do a country waltz, give me a small drum kit, "oompa" bass, and strummed guitar. Just give me that, let me enter the chord progression into the spreadsheet, and THEN let me tweak and add "George", and "Brad", and "Brent". At the start, I just need Eddie. When I have a song in my large and increasingly vacant head, I need to get that idea down NOW or it will be gone by the time I sort through 1400 styles, 1399 of which are wrong. I'll get around to piano and strings and pedal steel later when I have the foundation built.

Now, given what I described there, is there a way to DO that and due to my lack of experience I just don't know it?

The pulldown method I described earlier seems like a logic approach to sorting styles. Don't remove anything, just put in an alternative way to find what's there.

That whole "first name" thing I find increasingly annoying, at the same level as my desire to punch anybody in the face who says "Garth" to me. (That would be Mr. Brooks to you, you pompous jerk. You don't know him.) Take some guy who grew up in rural Oongaboonga and show him a style containing the name "Brent" and expect him to know who Brent Mason is..... c'mon now. Everybody doesn't know the name of every studio musician in Nashville. Ask 100 people to name more than 2 of "The Wrecking Crew" and see who can get past some combination of Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, Barney Kessel, Carol Kaye, Tommy Tedesco and James Burton. I could probably go 10 names deep and I am a musician. Your average newbie buying BIAB likely never HEARD of The Wrecking Crew much less know that Leon Russell played keyboards in it.

Simple may not be better to the experienced, but it should be available to the NOT experienced.