This is yet another reason to use Real Band. I've been doing that kind of thing in RB since about the first week of the original beta test four years ago. Most of the new features in RB came from Biab but this one went the other way, from RB to Biab.

Here's the concept. You want some strings. Those strings can come from any style in your library that has strings, it doesn't matter what your original style is. Now, lets say there's 50 midi styles that have strings. Which one is best for your song? Who knows, you have to just try them. In RB all you do is first pick the style, right click on an empty track, select midi instrument>strings in the little window and generate. Remember RB is a sequencer, it doesn't regenerate anything else, just that track. But, you don't like that track. Rather than delete it and hope you remember it later as you would do in Biab, RB gives you 48 tracks to play with so leaving the first attempt alone, go to the next empty track and do a different one and so on until you find what you want. You don't have to generate a whole track either. You can highlight say 8 bars, generate one style, highlight the next 8, generate another one etc. You might fit 10 different string styles on the same track. Oth, you might want to hear what one string style sounds like through the whole song so then just use different tracks per my first suggestion. That's what I usually do. Want 20 examples to play with use 20 tracks. I'm saying 20 as an extreme because it's certainly doable, in reality all you'll use is maybe 4 or 5. Now all you do is play the song and move around listening to all those different string parts using the mute/solo button. You might like 3 of them for different parts of your song. In RB it's very simple to cut and paste those parts onto one track, delete the leftovers and you're done.

One of the new things in Biab is you can do basically the same thing but it's a bit clunkier than it is in RB. In Biab you have to first highlight the bar, hit F5 to get to the bar edit screen, then pick the chorus number, then select the style, then pick the instrument then close the window, go to the chord grid, find your next bar, hit F5 and do it again. Same result but RB is faster and easier because you're looking at the track right in front of you and no choruses, just the whole song. Different people work different ways, for me at least it's much easier to visualize the whole thing in RB than it is in Biab.

Bob

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