Okay, another "newbie" question here...

I'm getting pretty good at substituting various bass & piano tracks in some of the newer RealTracks styles. But I've run into something that I think should work, and I can't get it to... Suggestions?

Here's what I'm trying to do--I'm trying to take a jazz swing style like _J140_TB "Soft Piano Jazz Quartet", and trying to replace the trombone track on the "Strings" channel with MIDI-strings.

1) Right-Click on the "Strings" radio-button on the top bar; select "Assign RealTracks"
2) In the "Assign RealTracks" window, I select the box to: "Disable RealTracks for this track [force to MIDI]"
3) Back in the window on the BiaB screen on the next bar down, (where the controls are for Volume/Pan/Reverb/etc.), I select patch "#52 Synth Strings 2"
4) I go through the song and where I want the string to come in I set the bars to Sub-Style "B" (green); and use the F5 key to select "Back to Normal" on the "Strings" row under "Instrument Changes" and I select the "#52 Synth Strings 2" on the next column, "Patch changes at this bar"...

It seems that no matter what I do, I can't get the strings to work.

(I also tried the "Make a hybrid style", and tried "borrowing" the strings from the "=BRT_PBG.sty" style and saving it as another stylename... That doesn't seem to work at all. When I try to apply the new hybrid style, it either doesn't work at all (no sound), or it's the style I started with and there are no strings there either.)

Am I missing something in how to combine the styles for MIDI-strings?

Thanks for any help...

LJ

"You play pretty good--for a girl."