Hi, Ron -

My 30-day comment was not directed toward your current version, but that if you purchased the newer version (BIAB 2015), you could get your money back in 30-days if you were not satisfied.

I'm not sure what you mean by "MIDI parts run in the background".

As I'm sure you know, BIAB gives you a limited number of accompaniment tracks that you can use, traditionally called bass, drums, piano, guitar, and strings. Along with those, you also have a melody and solo track on which you can record your own melodies/solos/etc (or use RealTracks, as well). BIAB also has a separate audio track you can use.

Traditionally, the accompaniment tracks were populated with instruments and riffs based on style file definitions. And styles could have variations, so that every time you generated the song, it would sound a little different. This was accomplished via PGMusic's proprietary song generation engine.

With RealTracks (and RealDrums), you can overlay a RealTrack on top of one of the accompaniment tracks, however, the generation of the sound you get is done differently than MIDI and it has no relation at all to the underlying MIDI track (from the style). You can overlay all the tracks with RealTracks/RealDrums (on the drums track), but what you hear will sound nothing like the underlying MIDI style that you started with. If the original style is swing, and you insert a straight RealTrack on the piano track, it's going to play straight.

The cool thing is that you can mix and match MIDI and RealTracks, but you can't play both on the same accompaniment track at the same time. It's one or the other.

Yes, you can remove a RealTrack from a RealStyle and you you may (or may not) get a MIDI rendition of something when you do that. But it's just the generation of that part from the underlying style that the RealStyle (or hybrid style) was based on. There is no correlation between the two.

I'm not really sure what you are looking for with BIAB, but please ask more specific questions and I (and I'm sure others) will be happy to try to answer them. Just keep in mind that most of the folks posting are running BIAB 2015 (maybe some 2014), and haven't used 2011 in quite awhile, and the capabilities of the older versions start to blur over time.

Additionally, there have been a lot of updates to the RealTracks since then. Remember, 2011 was the first version that introduced the Elastique Pro time/pitch stretching feature, so a lot has been improved since that first implementation to make RealTracks sound better.

Just let us know what you are trying to accomplish and we'll see if we can help.

John

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