I agree with some of this because we're drowning in a sea of riches. You want to see styles? Check out Norton Music's site. He's got styles, tons and tons of styles, enough styles to drown us all 15 times over.

As to naming them, I really don't know any better way to do it guys. When you have thousands of styles how many changes can you make in a short descriptive string of characters to describe the thing? I don't have the answer to that one.

It's logical to use the language of the genre. When we open our printer properties we always see the print cue and landscape and portrait. If you've never seen that before you can very well ask yourself what the heck is a print cue or portrait and why can't they speak plain English? Well, if you're talking printers you use the language of print shop operators and for the last 100 years they've used the term "landscape" so when software developers created a software emulation of a printing press what other term would you suggest they use other than "landscape"? That's the industry standard name for it and that's it. Same thing here with music production software. We use terms like faders, effects inserts, side chaining, condenser mic, DB, compressor/limiter, freq analysis etc, because those are the terms used in recording studios. If you don't understand those terms yet you've bought yourself some recording software then I guess it's time to go to school, isn't it? It makes no sense to ask the software developers to suddenly change all that industry standard terminology.

If we're looking for a guitar picking country style and see one called "Chet" and don't know who Chet Atkins was that's our problem isn't it? What else is PG going to call it if it emulates his style of picking? Perhaps we would prefer calling it "The greatest country picker who ever lived" style? I mean if you're looking at a country music style and can't figure out who George is likely to be then Google it. I'm a jazzer and I'm still pretty sure that's George Strait but it could be George Jones I guess and as a jazzer I'm also in awe of how great a player Chet Atkins was. I didn't have a clue who Brent Mason was either until Peter announced his new Real Tracks and half the members of this forum went nuts over them. I put my finger to my temple and went "duh, this guy must be Somebody" and checked him out. Those RT's are indeed killer and I learned something new. What a concept.

I think we all have figured out by now that unless PG has obtained permission from those artists to use their full names then they can't use their full names for legal reasons, right? Think about that for a minute and now how would you describe the styles?

Just keep working with the program, find your own way around it and put your suggestions in the wishlist.

Bob

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