I agree with Paul that this would be a really nice feature. Back in the pre-realtracks days I thought (briefly) that this was exactly what PG had delivered when they added a feature called 'Soloist Play Around Melody' (or something similar). I assumed that this meant the soloist would not stamp all over the melody line and would also hopefully play something that was in sympathy with the melody notes. As it turned out this feature was actually something else altogether (I can't remember what now!).

I realise that, even in the Midi world, the feature that I was hoping for would have been really complicated to deliver, and now that we have moved up to Realtracks I suspect that it would be almost impossible. (The 'real musician' would need to record an almost infinite number of phrases to work around all possible melody phrasings).

I try to address the issue by generating multiple 'takes' of the solo wav files and then comping them together in my DAW. (Sometimes tweaking the results with Melodyne). This is a really painstaking process and is still not always succesful but quite often achieves pretty good results and occassionally achieves brilliant lead licks.

The other approach which works pretty well is only using the soloist for intro & middle 8 sections and not during the verses and choruses. This tends to work better for up tempo songs where there is not so much 'dead space' between the sung lyrics.

On the other hand PGMusic never cease to amaze and delight me with their new features so maybe they have got something up their sleeve to deliver exactly what we want!

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