We did once have just midi and mid styles.

You had a bunch of styles. There are indications like stars that show up beside the styles that match, as in they are close to the tempo, straight 8ths or swing etc.

Then we got the ability to sub in a Realtrack so instead of having your real style all midi, you had part midi and maybe a guitar in a 4/4 120 tempo strum and you could go about 20 beats lower or faster but you needed a LOT of tracks because it had to cover those bpm's with multiple samples.

THEN, we got all RealTracks styles, and the ability to load up on them. So you could have a midi style (with many synths from hardware to software), or a hybrid style with maybe on RealTrack, then you got the ability to add all RealTracks.

So you have swing styles, straight styles, 4/4, 3/4 and everything from Baroque to Gypsy Jazz.

You can take any style, sub in some realtracks, or all realtracks, and just jam.

Recently, we got Elastique stretching, and you now need less in the way of .wav files or .wma files and this has been a great addition.

I just rattled this off, perhaps the others can jump in, I have lost my former linear method of thinking...Zut.

John Conley
Musica est vita