rharv: You've completely missed what I'm saying. I think that the Real Tracks are amazing but they have some short falls - and as I said most, of what Bob Norton states is correct.... although he might be *over-stating* some issues...

Here is the bottom line: If I want to have a specific written part played by the "Real Tracks guitarist" - I can't. I'd have to go find a Kontact, or SampleTank or similar VST instrument - that sounds "similar" to the Real Track guitarist - and then record the part in MIDI. That seems pretty silly when we could have an instrument already made using samples made from the same instruments that made the Real Tracks. With some careful production, the VST instrument would have matched the Real Tracks instrument sound quite well. Of course the MIDI parts have to be played properly as well.

So to be clear - I *do* know Real Tracks are about - those longer phrases are needed for the current generation of the BIAB engine - that's fine. That doesn't mean that having also individual samples to build a VST instrument (to create melodies, written parts - etc.) makes sense...

It makes perfect sense...

Cheers!

PS: My comment about getting individual samples for all those instruments was just stating that the time to have done that, was when all those musicians were in the studio recording all those Real Tracks phrases... *that* would have been the time to record all the multi-samples for each instrument. If the guy in charge of that project, did not - then too bad... its too late.