Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
Rustyspoons, your idea would be great as well! If I could load two styles at once it would be a lot easier to compare them. But I'd still love to have the music experts at PGM suggest style pairings in much the same way that they group RealTracks into RealStyles.


While not specifically 'suggesting' style pairings, PGM does extensively pair Styles and create custom styles that are mixtures, edited existing styles, combinations of MIDI/ RT's that users can use or study how PGM staff combines and edits so we can do the same. They're call Multi Styles and use Part Markers to change between styles. Search for PGM Multi Style creations from the StylePicker filtering with + . In my version of BIAB, a search filtered for Multi Styles returned more than 900 styles. BIAB also has hundreds of styles that use the same instruments and style groove and simply change out soloist instruments. It's super easy to make multi styles using these similar styles to change soloists that change out solo instruments with seamless and smooth transitions so it's unlikely BIAB will create a perfect solo except for an abrupt intro or ending that results a forced regeneration and losing the whole solo.

Here is the PG Music tutorial on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmcbwJDl1oA

Notice the number of style subset options available in the Part Marker Window at the 2:04 mark in the video. In their example they're only using 4 styles but BIAB can apply as many as 24 styles at once... Each new multi style Part Marker is comprised of a pair of sub-styles... The same as the normal 'A' and 'B' sub styles we're familiar with.

To compare how a style will sound in your song, audition the style from the StylePicker using the "Play using current Chord Sheet for song" selection. If the style or some of the instruments work, apply it by creating a Multi Style and activate/deactivate it with Part Markers. Part Markers can be placed on any measure of the Chord Sheet and used repeatedly.

EDIT: Add a Multi Style Chord Sheet photo and the song created from the Chord Sheet.

Here's a screen shot of the Chord Sheet I created using a style used in a Beginners Forum Post question to how to bring the solo guitar in and out throughout the song.

The Beginner poster received the standard advice and instructions to use Bar Settings (F5) to Mute and Return to Normal that is appropriate to give a beginning BIAB user. But that post presents a good example to more experienced users to try a better method .

Using the Style the beginner poster was using, I saw the guitar solo was performed by BIAB session Musician Mike Durham. Searching the StylePicker filtered to find other performances with different RealTrack Solos by Mike Durham, there were bucket loads of Styles and other RealTracks.

I randomly selected 3 other guitar solo RealTracks by Mike Durham and modified the Hacking Style chosen by the beginner poster and created 3 additional Multi Styles, each with a different Mike Durham Solo performance.

I created a 40 bar Chord Sheet and inserted the different solos using the Multi Riff Part Markers and ended up with 11 different solo instrument changes and a much more advanced performance solo with greater dynamics, energy and variety than what a stock arrangement using Bar Settings to Mute and Return to Normal song would produce.
Hacking Song Render using Multi Styles


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Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 11/17/20 06:44 AM. Reason: Added photo and song link
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