Hey Mike, I'm just using M$'s security essentials. It seems to be doing it's job and it's not intrusive, I've found.

Yeah, about the 5% vs 100% thing, that's what I was hoping it was all the problem was, but I found out otherwise. Remember up above, where Noel commented about using RealTracks at tempo settings other than what they were set up for? Well, I was able to confirm this. I selected a few different styles that had real tracks, more or less at random, and then changed the tempo. The result was rather dramatic. If I varied the tempo by as little as 10 bpm it caused a major disruptive effect. Sometimes, if I'd let the tracks run, they'd quieten down, but sometimes they wouldn't and there would just be this continual distortion in the playback. So this is apparently a very real issue. And you know what? That's very unfortunate, the way I feel. I mean, why should I be restricted to these arbitrary tempo values? The musicians who recorded this info wouldn't have felt bound by any such strict tempos. So why should I be? I tell you what, it's infuriating. Like, I finally find a style that I really like, but its tempo is different from what I need. So if I select that style, all I get is garbage when I set it to the tempo I need.

Is there any way to "retrain" these styles so that they'll behave? Like I wrote above, I've had situations where it seemed that they sort of calmed down some, but they were still sensitive to any sort of changes.

What I've done for now is I've set my style picker so it selects MIDI styles. I like Real Tracks and all but if they can't do what I need, there's no point in including them in my searches.

Last edited by cooltouch; 02/07/19 12:11 PM.
Best,
Michael

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