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As Matt said, BIAB Pro only comes with a limited number of RealTracks. Which version of BIAB 2011 do you have?
I think the answer in the end is to re-install BIAB on top of your 2011 installation to preserve everything you already had, plus anything new you got with 2015.
I would make a copy of my current BIAB 2011 folder first either to your computer hard drive or to an external USB drive. That way, you can always get back to it if you need to.
I assume you received BIAB Pro on DVD disks. You can then run the installation routine to install BIAB on top of BIAB 2011. That will preserve all styles, RealTracks, RealDrums, etc you previously had, and then install any of the new stuff.
Once you are satisfied with what you have, you can get rid or your errant installation.
I noticed that the BIAB 2015 ProPak does come with two B3 Organ RealTracks; so you should be able to use those.
Also, I don't have the installation DVD for BIAB ProPak; however, make sure you select everything to install and pay attention to where you said to install.
Also, when you run the installation program, it will ask you for the parent folder of the RealTracks and RealDrums locations (for example, C:\BB); however, after you finish installation, from within the program, you have to tell BIAB that your RealTracks are located in C:\BB\RealTracks and RealDrums are located in C:\BB\Drums. That can be a point of confusion for some people, especially if you choose a different location for your Real instruments.
For example, on my computer, I install my Real instruments to "D:\AppsData\Sounds\PGMusic\Real"; however, when I set up BIAB, I have to tell it to set the RealTracks folder to "D:\AppsData\Sounds\PGMusic\Real\RealTracks" and the RealDrums folder to "D:\APpsData\Sounds\PGMusic\Real\Drums".
As Matt said, BIAB Pro, only comes with a handful of RealTracks and styles. It's basically the package to get you into using BIAB, but if you want to do serious music making, you should seriously consider upgrading to one of the other packages. Otherwise, you're going to find frustration when you try to use a style for which you might have one or two instruments, but not all the instruments defined in the style and have to go looking for limited substitutes.
You may already know this, but to give you a sense:
BIAB Pro comes with about 200 RealTracks (RealTracks and RealDrums combined); however, the MegaPak comes with about 460 RealTracks and the UltraPlusPak and EverythingPak comes with about 1800 RealTracks.
BIAB Pro comes with about 600 MIDI styles; however the MegaPak, UltraPlusPak, and EverythingPak all come with over 2000 MIDI styles.
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