Hello to All! This is my first post--I've been a BIAB owner for more than ten years but previously just used it at a very superficial level as a practice tool for my jazz improv. I'm now ramping things up and using it for (hopefully) pro-sounding recordings, relying heavily on RealTracks and RealDrums. I'm amazed at the quality of sound I can now get and am excited about exploring the depths of the program which seem vast.

On to my first question: I'm recording a song where I let BIAB do what it wants in the rhythm section for most of the song, but there are certain sections where I want specific chords, rhythms, and bass notes. I know that if I go the all-MIDI route I can just save as a MIDI file, export to my DAW (Sonar), and continue massaging it there. But if I want to use all RealTracks, I'm stumped. Is this possible? I tried creating a style and recording the piano part as a pattern, but when I play it back, the rhythm is correct but the voicing is not. This won't suffice. Would RealBand help out with this? I don't know much about it.

Thanks in advance for your help. If you have any general tips about achieving high-quality jazz tracks, I'd love to hear them. And if you have any samples online in the acoustic jazz style, I'd be very interested to check them out.

--Vinnie