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While I agree the more soloists the better, consider the primary mission of these Real Tracks is to provide high quality backing tracks, not a complete finished product. All the pro's at PG HQ and there's more than you probably know certainly know that a finished song will have well written song specific lead lines, licks, rhythm figures etc that would be impossible to create a RT for because as you said there's no way for the creator of the RT to know ahead of time what you're going to come up with. There are things that are simply part of the deal when using RT's that don't lend themselves to a finished studio product such as the fast/slow leslie on the B3 or the sustain on the piano. Since these programs allow the user to put in their own chords, there's no way for the chords on those two instruments to flow smoothly from one to the other whether it's the leslie ramping up or down or the piano sustain. They both sound choppy in certain places and that's just the way it is.
There's already a huge wishlist for more backing tracks. Strings and horns are probably in first place right now but there's all kinds of people requesting mandolins, harmonicas, orchestral instruments, accordians, more country, more bluegrass, more rock, folk, jazz fusion, all kinds of stuff. Those probably take priority over more soloists but of course that's PG's decision. The other thing is we're already at 80 gigs now for the WMA UltraPak and what 2-300 gigs for the audiophile version? It's getting overwhelming now to go through a lot of that to try different things out so to create soloists in all those styles and tempos would quickly fill up even these new 2 TB drives. We've had discussions about the best way to organize and retrieve a specific RT and it's not going to be easy.
I'm certainly not predicting what they're going to do, and I totally agree it would be way cool to have a soloist to go along with each style with lots of tempo variations. I'm just pointing out it's big now and to add what everybody wants would make the RT library absolutely ginormous like my daughter says but it sure would be fun to play with.

Bob