I would like to address the questions by jdchess, the original poster. You have received some terrific explanations of what is going on. It is my opinion that your conclusions are correct, that the same RealTrack will sound very much the same if played in another genre. What can fool you is that, when you combine different tracks, the one track can be perceived very differently depending on what else is played with it. Just solo the track and you'll get the real picture.

Another way to answer this question is to talk from the perspective of styles. Styles are only collections of RealTracks and/or MIDI tracks that make sense to the person who created the style. But you can substitute individual tracks from that pre-made style, and even save the result as your own name. Or you can go the other way: build your own unique style from a collection of tracks you assemble. And when you do that, the BIAB chosen style does not matter!

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