Have you heard the AC bass in Garritan Jazz & Big Band? What the hell is this font? that is the dumbest ampersand I've ever seen. It looks like some closet christian secret sign. The guy who did the Ac Bass tracks must have written this font. Anyway, after the novelty wears of the real tracks you begin to notice that much of this stuff is way too busy in many cases and there needs to be a way to edit the sound of these tracks. If not the performances. PG!! this is accompaniment software not saving it up for friday nite party time. The modern jazz drum tracks are a good example. A real band would have this guy in the alley with there hands around his neck if someone played like this on a jazz gig. I tried for a half hour last nite to find a real tracks style in the Jazz Ballad category that didn't have a bass player that wanted to solo over the second time thru the head.... Even after I took out all the fill and get it on now squares. What are these people thinking? We'd be so thrilled to have something that feels decent to play with we wouldn't notice the 8 bit sound files? the cheezy slide guitar files. PIanos........ you get the idea.

Back to Garritan Jazz. Don't bother buying it for Biab. They love selling it but can't support it. It is the most frustrating thing I have come across besides running this program on a pc. The new mac version is for the intel macs. But Garritan drives biab crazy. I'll called a million times and they were going to get right on it. They didn't even have a computer with it installed! This is the best sounding stuff around for this kind of money 149.00. It makes everything else they offer, that I've heard, sound like a toy band. And they can't or won't figure out how to make it work. The pc is fast enough and has 3 gig of ram and the has de rigueur 32 bit limping, lump of an OS [ can't think of the name ] but it's the one biab likes. I never use it for anything but biab and almost never get on line with it. It has very little other software on it and has been optimized for audio use. Pretty frustrating times for biab and jazz. There is so much potential there.

Ron

`15 Audiophile, Toshiba17", 3Mhz, 4gig ram, 500gig HD, Win7, Tascam 122mkII interface, Tascam 16 track 8 buss recording mixer, 2 Avalon747sps,CAD VX2 mic, AKG C1000s, mac and Digital Performer.