To add my rapidly devaluing 2c, this release is a true Game Changer. A few examples:

Multi Chords. You now have the ability to put four chords on each beat. Now, that gets very sloppy at faster tempos but you can also choose which instrument plays it while the other instruments just play the basic chord for that beat. Extremely flexible.

Motifs. This is part of the MC dialog. It allows you to create a specific rhythm for an instrument to play. This is most obvious with the horn sections but it works with all your instrument tracks if you wanted. I've barely scratched the surface with this one.

Playable Real Tracks. This is absolsutely mind blowing and I have no idea how they made this work. How many times have we responsded to the question Why can't I change what a RT is playing like making a RT sax play a melody for example or make a bass RT play a specific bass line? NOW YOU CAN! This could be the single biggest new feature and if this was the only new thing they did it would make this release worth it by itself.

Wait there's more... The Drum Stems. Love the RD track but want to bump up the snare? Or the kick? Or, add one of those to replace what's already there? It's all possible now.

The somewhaat bad news is the Playable RT's and Drum Stems are limited to certain instrument tracks and finding out exactly what styles have them or finding the exact track to add to your song is tricky right now. They will be adding new ones over time.

Any one of these will keep you busy for some time but all of them together? We'll be having fun all year just learning all the ins and outs of these features. Everybody loves things to be as simple as possible. These new features are definitly not that. There is a learning curve here but I think everyone pretty much agrees the results will be worth it.

If there's ever a case for actually reading the documentation instead of simply diving in and figuring it out as you go, this is it.

Bob

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