+1 to jford's thought on providing separate tracks for each instrument in an ensemble — as opposed to having just a single track that pulls up GM ensemble voicing, which is the case in many PG Music MIDI styles.

Besides brass sections, string sections and drum kits, too, could benefit from having their own styles wherein the individual instruments are divided among the available slots in Band-in-a-Box. Brass section, string section, and drum kit styles could stand alone, to create tracks that then can be sent to RealBand and added to a user's separately-generated band tracks of a compatible style. Or, perhaps, new "multi-pass" style sets could be made by PG Music to ensure compatibility between ensembles and the rest of the band while also allowing for really full, lush, and articulate mixes.

If I wanted a 12-piece band with a horn section, for example, on the first pass of generating instrument tracks to accompany my melody and chord structure, I might load a hypothetical HornDawgs1A style — the first part of a 2-part style set — and thereby generate the bass, keyboard, drums, guitar, strings, melody, and soloist tracks. For my way of working (Your mileage may vary.), I would then output each of those instrument tracks as its own separate audio (.wav) file for subsequent mixing in RealBand. Before any mixing, however, I would next load hypothetical style HornDawgs1B — the second part of a 2-part style set — to generate the horn section for my song. Where typical BiaB single-pass styles would usually have to limit the horns to a single brass ensemble track in order to also accommodate all the other aforementioned (minus one or two) instruments, this second pass could generate separately, say, trumpet 1, trumpet 2, trombone, sax, and flute. After I output the individual audio tracks for each horn, then I can begin mixing all 12 tracks in RealBand. Hotcha!

I'll leave it to you, Dear Reader, to imagine how multi-pass style sets including separated string ensembles or drum kits could be similarly applied.

No changes need to be made to either Band-In-A-Box or RealBand to accommodate this method of significantly increasing the number of instruments available in a style. It's just a matter of some new style sets being written by PG Music and/or after-market vendors, for something more than single-pass output.

Hey, I'm just sayin'....

Be well, be happy.

Sincerely (No, I really, really, REALLY mean it this time!), Bro. Dave Lister
"There once was a hermit named Dave...."
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(NOTE: Portions of this entry are excerpted from an earlier post by me: Multi-Pass Style Sets, #293383 - 11/13/10 03:15 PM. So there!)