No matter your particular genre of music interest, it really pays to purchase the largest BB PAK that you can afford, so that you have as many Styles and Realtracks as possible available for your use.

It is often the case that I will cross genre listings inside Band in a Box in order to create a backing for a certain song. Just because a certain Realtrack, RealDrum or even MIDI based style is listed as "Country" in the Stylepicker does not necessarily mean that it won't work well in a Blues, SmoothJazz or other genre. This also can get the creative juices flowing, having the ability to enter the chords, etc. for your song and then suditioning many different Styles and instruments playing it back as pros would.

And then there's the educational situation as well. Being able to access all the different styles and genres can teach the old dog some new tricks. Just because a particular lick may be part of a Jazz or Country or Pop song does not mean that lick cannot translate to, say, a Blues idiom - and add a new trick to your personal arsenal.

So, if you can affor it, get the fullblown package.

Advantages are that you will pay far less for that in the long run as versus buying additional styles and/or Realtracks/Realdrums packages piecemeal. Quite a savings. Additional advantage is that when newer versions are released, which happens at least once a year, sometimes twice, the price of upgrading is very affordable, especially if you act in a timely fashion because new releases are always accompanied by a sale upgrade price for at least the first month of issue.


--Mac

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