This comes up all the time Dave. Experienced pro level players like us know exactly what a certain part should sound like. The problem is Biab is a generic backing tracks generator that works off of styles. It's the style that controls these things. How many styles would it take to satisfy all of us? Somebody else who's equally experienced as us wants that bass line to be a bit different to be a counterpoint to whatever melody they're using or whatever. Multiply that by oh, I don't know, several million players and then what do we wind up with?

The styles are user configurable. You can change an existing style, create a hybrid style using several existing styles or of course, write your own style from scratch. This is for midi styles only. Now for the Real Tracks.

The RT's are a whole different animal. Neil Swainson sat down in a recording studio and laid down tons of bass tracks. You were not in the room with him, he has no idea what you may want out of any particular bass track he recorded. He's doing a generic bass track according the whatever style PG hired him to play. I'm not sure but I think he played a bunch of standard chord changes using different keys and tempos with the idea that a lot of it would fit with what the users would want for that style. If it's a jazz swing at a tempo of 140, what type of swing would you ask him to record if it was you? The thing about RT's is the program cannot chop them down to the single note level. I believe one bar is as far as it goes so whatever was played in one bar is what you have to work with. You can get single note basses out of an RT by using slash chords a lot of the time but not all of the time. If one particular note was not recorded then there's nothing for the program to put in that exact spot. There's software synths/samplers that do that already. Single note samples triggered by midi. The key word there is midi. RT's are prerecorded audio files just like you listening to a CD. What you hear is what you get. PG tries to create RT's that will appeal to the greatest number of people they can but of course they're not going to please everybody but they've been fine tuning the RT's for several years now and they're getting better at it. Just remember one word: Generic. You're going to get a very high quality audio recording of a bass playing a generic swing style or bossa or whatever it is but not exact song specific stuff. At least not yet, stay tuned.

Bob

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