Question 1 is whether going up in level of software (and level of money) ups the number of available styles.

That was prompted by my going through country styles for about 90 minutes, previewing trying to find one that fits what I want to accomplish. I didn't find anything close.

Details. I would like to work up a backing track for Tanya Tucker's "It's A Little Too Late". In the style screens, where you can type in the name of a song and get options, I typed in that song name and got a pulldown that literally showed me "Tanya Tucker - It's a Little Too Late." When I clicked through that I got a list of 226 styles, none of which were ANYTHING CLOSE to the groove of that song that some would call swing and some would call shuffle. (Can someone try to tell me just from the title what a style called "Ol' Dusty Trails" is supposed to sound like? How about "Country Wasteland"? Or "Perky Swinging Songwriter"? Who names these styles anyway?)

Just an FYI. Hank Williams has been dead since 1953. Why do so many style names have simply "Hank" in the title? A good portion of your userbase likely have no idea who he was, and with the lack of interest in actually learning about music to a depth where the younger generation would go back into the dusty crates and find his albums, why is he even relevant to a level where so many styles have his name in them? How about some styles like Clarkson? Underwood? Paisley? Brooks? We are 23 years into the 2000s now and it's time for some fresh meat.

Take a listen to that Tanya Tucker song and see if you can come up with a style even remotely close. I know at least 5 people are going to say "Make your own style." Well, if the drums are wrong, and I don't play drums, how exactly would I do that? I have no interest in making styles (and no knowledge how to go about it). That's why I pay for this stuff. I want to write tracks without it becoming my new science project. The cross referencing between a style search criteria and the result that get spit out are actually humorous. To wit:

I just put in "Do You Know The Way To San Jose" and told it to find a style. The first one in the list was "Hang Ten Vintage Surf Rock". Really?

This area of this software is really lacking.

Get me going on real tracks. Mason (64) shows up 280 times. Darin Favorite (57) 146 times. Brother Oliver Gannon 115 times. Piano is pretty much Lorber, Jarvis, Miles Black and Mike Rojas. Is it just financial? Those old names that have been there since I started with this thing (13 years now?), meaning they have long since been bought and paid for. Do fresher faces want to charge so much for their time that getting some new blood isn't even in the scope of possibility because it will cost money?

All of those people are outstanding musicians. That's not the point. It's a new generation and a new breed of music. Let's get up to date here. Personally I don't care about the little tweaks to visuals, fixing some minor buried bug (that may matter to somebody else), or anything outside of having better real tracks and more styles that are actually distinct and more useful for 2023 music. Brent Mason was and still is great. But we have 3 or 4 times more of him than anybody else available already and its time for new stuff. Keith Urban ever been approached? Brad Paisley? Tom Bukovac? Bryan Sutton?

Last edited by eddie1261; 08/10/23 11:49 AM.