Another point to make is that a lot of folks assume the words "Style" and "RealTrack" are the same thing (I guess since the RealTrack is often "in the style of".

RealTracks are individual audio tracks that have been pre-recorded, from which BIAB is able to extract the appropriate snippets that match your chord progression (whether it was recorded for the actual chord you want, or is close to the chord you want, or is transposed from a nearby chord - for example, the RealTrack may have a D chord and and E chord recorder, but not an E-flat, in which case BIAB will transpose up the D chord half a step to get the E-flat).

RealStyles are merely a collection of RealTracks to represent instruments and riffs that fit well together as a somewhat cohesive band. MIDI styles work differently, but the concept is similar. The cool part is that you can start with a style and substitute any or all of the styles tracks with different RealTracks to get a different sound. You can even then save that new grouping as your own stylename, for use later on.

PGMusic sells packages of RealTracks, which as has been explained, includes the style files that contain those RealTracks. But if the other instruments are not part of the pack of RealTracks, you would have to either purchase them separately, or already have them in your configuration - for example, if you have the UltraPak, then you pretty much have all the other RealTracks needed to fill out the style.

If you have N/A instruments in the style, it just means you didn't purchase them (either by buying the UltraPak or the Audiophile Pak, or by purchasing the individual packs needed to complete that style). It doesn't keep you from using the RealTracks you purchased; it just means that if you use a style for which you don't have all the RealTracks, you'll just need to substitute other RealTracks you do have for those particular instruments. But the RealTrack you did purchase will play properly. Clearly, if you do substitutions, it won't sound like the demo of the original style anymore.

I don't think PGMusic ever intended to pull the wool over anyone's eyes; I suspect it is just an issue of miscommunication/misunderstanding. It's been this way for a long time, and Andrew has indicated that they will take a look at how they word the RealTrack purchase page.

That being said, PGMusic also sells style paks (the XTRA styles pak). Some folks have gotten confused here as well, thinking that they will get all the underlying RealTracks represented by those styles, but the web page clearly says you need to already have those underlying RealTracks (either by having purchased the Ultra/AudiophilePak or individual RealTrack Paks) to be able to use the styles.

The style files are just a packaging file with pointers to the needed RealTracks, but not the RealTracks themselves.

Clear as mud?

John

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