PG Music Home Forums PG Music Product Forums Band-in-a-Box for Windows Choosing the best realtracks a bit of a chore?

Eddie I think you are really trying to hard to make this confusing. First off you are getting Styles and Real Tracks mixed up.

Realtracks are the componants of making instrument tracks. and there is not 1400 of them.

As far as them having names, these are identifiers, and just part of the whole file, they are also know by things like, guitar accoustic strumming 120, meaning just what it says a accousitc guitar strumming patern at 120 BPM. They also add the name to them so we know the player, and this identifies them with associated styles. A brent track plays nice with a brent style, and it soes not really matter who the brent is, cause after all the brent style is listed under country, and or Rack depending on the tracks associated with them. Filter them by the method that works for you.

As far as styles, yes there are some 1400 or more, and they are named some random stuff. Like tracy, tanya, and garth, and most of the names are of someone who did music in a similar style, like Tracy Byrd, or Tanya Tucker, or Garth. Most are very well know names, not the keyboard plaer from some band that was marginally popular, and maybe one of two of the players went on to have solo careers. These names just give the users a starting point as to what style of music they represent, they also can be filtered by genre, and BPM, and other things. This requires a bit of digging to get a full grasp, but it is not as hard as you make it out to be.

If I want to start a project i start with styles from the basic genre i want. If it is country waltz, i will filter country styles with 3/4 time, or waltz, and it will give me a nice list of just that. I then pick from that group. It also tells me in the corner some of the songs this might lend itself to. Giving me a little more information.

If I want all real Tracks i start there.

It is really not that difficult, once you run through them a few times i kind of find that i could use a few more.

There is always the hybred and style maker functions. All one has to do is take peices of styles they like and put them together. Maybe a piano from country folk, and a strumming from pop rock, and the like, name them what you like.

It is like having a standing tool chest full of great tools. If you do not get familiar with them, you will always be hunting for the right tool.

It seems there is always someone fussin' about how difficult the style picker is, and how confusing the names are. Wow imagine that we did not have these tools! It would be far more difficult to do things. So much is already done for us, and there are so many great tools in the drawers, just look around awhile until they become more familiar.

One thing i try to remember is that this system was built for multiple users, not just me, so i need to learn to adapt to it, and use it for my purpose. Either i do that or spend all my time worrying about how it does not perfectly fit my personal needs.

Like Mom said "Ya want me to chew it for you?!"