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Will I be able to use their midi and realband stuff to my advantage?

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I don't want to sound like a 10 piece band...just add a little bass,drums (instead of the drum machine), and a few strings and/or horns one some tunes.

You can leave empty or mute any tracks that you don't want to use.

One caveat: When you say "strings", you're talking about MIDI strings. BiaB has some great fiddle RealTracks and a nice cello RealTrack, but for string pads and the like, MIDI is your only option right now.

Similarly, there are some great solo trumpet and saxophone RealTracks, but if you're looking at doing horns as a section, you're looking at MIDI.

BiaB has a great MIDI auto-harmonizer, so if you've got a melody (or countermelody) that you want to give to a section, you can just put in the top voice and choose one of the built-in voicings (such as 4 Part Close, Drop, Drop 2, etc.) to quickly create parts for sections.

But RealTrack "string sections" and "horn sections" don't exist... yet.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?