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I haven't been able to duplicate any problem like that. Just generated a bunch of songs, with RealTracks on Strings (and Melody and Soloist). Please let me know if there's a way to duplicate it.
For example, if you boot the program (or choose File-New), add a RealTracks to the string channel, and press PLAY, does the issue happen?



I couldn't remember what song file I had been working on when this appeared, so I opened several random files that I had recently worked with and also could not see a problem. But I finally found and opened a file that had shown the problem (there may have been others) and sure enough, it is still there. The file has Real Tracks on 6 channels (bass, piano, drums, guitar, melody, and soloist) that generate and play normally, but something prevents the strings channel from generating the Real Track that the drop-down claims it has. The behavior is exactly as described in my original post. I know of nothing that is different in this file from all the others here that behave normally.

If you want I'll send the file as is -- just let me know what email address to use.

Thanks for your attention.