Hi All, I'm experimenting with BIAB 2011.5 MegaPak

I definitely want to change real tracks within a song. I have found that it's possible in the chord sheet (as long as you don't try it on measure 1 (the main style will overwrite your change). It seems like the support for this is in it's infancy. The song gets confused quickly and unless you create a separate document, it's hard to remember what realtrack is playing at a given time. Nothing on the chord sheet tells you. The only way I have found to recover the information is to select the measure where you made the realtrack change and select [bar settings] [realtrack], and there it is.

One option might be to make your own real track styles. PG's web page says, ”Choose from pre-made Band-in-a-Box Styles, or combine RealTracks instruments to make your own band.”... Well this isn't going well.

There doesn't seem to be any support in style maker for real tracks. The manual says to hit the misc button in style maker to see what real styles are assigned in a real style. I don't see it. Does anyone else use stylemaker to make real bands?

The other possibility may be the hybrid style creator. But that seems buggy, I can hybridize bass and drums from other styles, but as soon as I bring in any other realstyle, the resulting band seems to revert to midi only. And this would be only marginally useful in the case where the source styles have conflicting use of instruments. Has anyone had luck with this?

Is anyone creating real styles, or does everyone use the same band all the way through the song? Am I missing something?