I don't know what to think about the previous post. Obviously the theory of time stretching and the reverse elude the author. Part of the perception that there is a problem is exacerbated by the fact if you chose a tempo of 92 and the realtrack is recorded at 90 you get the equivalent of an error message via the dastardly flashing yellow box. I urge that this be thought through and the error message only appear if the track is being stretched past it's limit.

The technology of melody based solos is already part of the PG arsenal. In fact, try putting a very prominent melody you know well and mute it and play the real track and see if you can spot it. In many of my songs it's there, hinted at, fooled with, and becomes part of the style. This I believe, and I'm sure Mac will jump in here, but is the difference between using a realtrack fill and a realtrack soloiist.

As to how something is recorded, ie the way a drum kit is done, will vary with almost every studio, and every song. I think given the artists involved, the people involved, and the company you are going to get a group who have a good feel for what they do and how they do it. I'd like to see you walk up to award winning people like Terry Clarke and tell him it's being done all wrong. He sat in the studio, and no doubt listened to the result, and I doubt the recording was done in the back room of the Seattle Radio Shack Store with stuff from the shelves.

We have a wish list forum, and normally Dr. Gannon and his crew go through, with Dr. Gannon answering the wishes personally, at times with explanations.

The new prevailing wisdom of the 'recording' community here seems to have a track for every part of the drum kit, and then they will argue over how it was recorded.

REMEMBER, some of us are USING this software as an end product. WE don't want to spend hours tweaking some cowbell so that the ring is right for the size of the room when it's 21 degrees C with a relative humidity of 72 percent and an east wind at 12 kmh.

At the end of the day, the need for more variety in the RealTracks offered is trumps the tweaking of the existing stuff, even if on or two users think it was done all wrong and needs a total redo along with the interface, the support for everything apple, and making it work with a 128 channel mixer that I store in my garage.

John Conley
Musica est vita