I think the DAW Plugin is very useful and you'll need to upgrade to get that. There are lots more real tracks that are great and can take your tracks to new places, even for jazz. I'm a jazz guitarist as well and you can get some great ideas with the new tracks. Having said that, I'm still exploring the new features and trying to learn the program (after 20 years or whatever of this program). I wish someday they could modernize the interface and the menus and simply clean things up, it's just too old school and DOS like to me. I don't like having 7 ways to do the same thing and all of these complicated menus with tons of choices. Modern programs like Logic, Dorico, are much cleaner looking and the workflow is better even though they are extremely complex programs. I still love the program though don't get me wrong, and I would recommend the upgrade now while the price is good.