I'm feeling really confused about adding a drums track to a song. Maybe its because I'm trying to start from a "clean slate." It seems like you have no choice but to choose a style when creating a song, so I'm starting with a very basic style and then ripping out all the created tracks. In the process, I was trying to add a drum track, and it just seems really convoluted, so I must be doing something wrong. I've read over the documentation pretty carefully. Here are a couple observations:

> When choosing a new track for the Drums using the Drums button at the top, then choosing Select RealTracks, then on the submenu, Select RealTracks again, I get a list of 2000+ entries including Accordion, Piano, and other instruments. There does not seems to be any simple way to filter out drums. If filter by "drum" there are only three choices. The entries to appear to be Rhythm related, but it seems odd.

> If I want to choose from all possible drum tracks, including MIDI, it appears that you must first select "Force Drums to MIDI drums" and then choose "Select a custom MIDI style for this track" then select "Choose from Presets" and that then produces about 100 items, all starting with the word "Drums" and a description and associated style name. There does not appear to be any way to preview the drum track sound before applying it.

> Back to the RealTracks drums, there are so many choices, it is quite difficult to navigate, and there are previews available, but the descriptions of the drum tracks really don't provide a lot of detail. I think I'll have to make my own cheat sheet outside of BIAB to keep track of which drum tracks I like and what they sound like.

I'm thinking I must be doing this wrong - it can't be this hard and convoluted. I can also provide some screenshots if that would help. If I'm missing something that is documented, or already addressed in the forums, I'll be glad to review those.

Ed Z

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