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And, thanks rkl122 for the midi file. I downloaded it, but still haven't figured out how to take it and make it into a style that I can reuse. It would be ideal if I could take the drums & bass from that midi file, and then lay in some of the slightly-fuzzy guitar from "=HBIL_SZ". I'm still working with it!

You're welcome. You should be able to shape it. Let me know if you get stuck and maybe I'll try a hand at following my own advice.

After you have the patterns from the midi in a new style, let me offer a tip I think I learned a while back: Instead of "make a hybrid style", consider the stylemaker itself to mix those parts with others. For example, open the new (bass/drums) style in the stylemaker - call that the target - then hit ALTF3 and play with that window, using +HBIL_SZ as the source style. My reasoning is this has more flexibility than "make hybrid style" in that you can put any instrument from the source file in any instrument position of the target file. Uh, oh, Check that! Yikes, I just tried it and now (build 282) they have a restriction that bass must go to bass and drums must go to drums. (Why'd you change that PG? ) Anyway, there's still flexibility to interchange the other 3 instruments. You could pop a second guitar into the strings that way. (I once harbored a crazy notion to construct libraries of bass patterns and piano patterns, etc. up to 10 in a style (5 a's & 5 b's), so I could audition them all from a single style, then pick one for zipping into a new hybrid. I'm OCD that way. That's where the attraction to the hybridization flexibility comes from. ...Like there's not enough to do with what BB already has right? Doh.)

None of that matters for your case, cause you'll have the drums & especially the bass lines in the target file to begin with. (They were the only two voices I heard prominently in the first half of that midi.) You'd pop that guitar into the target's guitar, and maybe find one or two other pattern sets from the +HBIL_SZ or other styles to pop in the piano and/or strings slots. Another tip: for a given instrument, by bringing the a substyle from one source and the b from another, you can get quite a variation. (Probably would sound like dork, but hey, love that flexibility ... )

Good luck. Hope it works out. -Ron

EDIT - I just realized that guitar you want is a RT. The way I said would bring the guitar MIDI patterns over. To add the RT guitar, you'd hit Misc in the stylemaker, then More, and set the RT in those combo boxes in the middle. (If you wanted to audition the guitar midi patterns, you'd set the guitar to no soloist.) And btw, to avoid letting the style change patches, you can turn them off in the style, or simply disable "style patch changes" in the Midi Options window.

Last edited by rkl122; 02/03/09 12:03 AM.