Hi Peter,

I will send you those files where I experienced all the crashes. However, this morning when I did some more work on them, the _DIXTEDY RealStyle seems to have stabilised on my system and I was able to do everything I tried to do before BUT without the crashes. In fact, I could not make it crash at all.

Today I was able to do two things very effectively and ended up with delightful approaches to creating Dixieland that were not possible before 2012.

1. For a fast Dixieland style that does not sound quite so 'cartoon-ish', I used the Gypsy Jazz Fast Rhythm w/Drums, killed off one of the guitars and added the _DIXTEDY piano. Previously, I was not able to do that without it constantly crashing but today it was a breeze.

2. Additionally, for a fast Dixieland style, using the _DIXTEDY RealStyle rhythm section and with a midi clarinet solo playing around the melody and the midi trombone from DixieDukes playing fills in Strings, I was able to create a very reasonable sounding contrapuntal Dixieland front line. Although I used to do that with all midi styles, it has only been made possible with RealTracks with 2012. Excellent!

Now all I need for further improvement is a clarinet and trombone in RealStyles that do the same thing but I have not tried the background soloists yet and maybe they do.

Grah Jive Talk
"Don't worry baby, they'll swing their arses off."