I'm gigging almost every day this month, so please forgive me for not reading all the follow-up posts in this thread. I hope I'm not repeating too much of the above.

Sure, many of the styles are similar, and some of the differences are subtle, but for good reasons.

I wrote my “styles for sale” a long time ago, when there were very few BiaB styles. It was so long ago I sold them for IBM-Compatible (DOS/Windows), Mac and Atari computers on 5.25” and 3.5” floppy disks.

At the time, I thought perhaps I could write 3 or 4 of them and cover all the basic styles. But as time went on, I would use my own style to make new backing tracks for my duo, The Sophisticats and I found that although a particular style worked, the song wasn't quite right. Perhaps the bass line needed to be funkier — or instead of strings, some horn riffs were better — or the groove was wrong, and the backbeats needed to be pushed behind or ahead of the beat — or the comp needed to be different — and so on.

Now I have 31 style disks, with up to 30 styles per disk. No, they aren't on floppy disks anymore, instead direct download, but I've been calling them style disks for so long, I don't know what else to call them. (Suggestions?)

The result is between my styles, PG Music's styles and others, the style menu is huge, and still there are songs that aren't quite covered by available styles.

To the new user, some styles may sound too similar, but as that user gets more experience with the styles and learns to recognize the differences, he/she will probably come to appreciate the huge menu of styles we have the luxury of being blessed with.

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