Hi Gadi,

You can be sure there is fascinating world "Behind the Scenes" . I worked with some names in the sampling and software market, like Scarbee, Overloud and others, now with PGMusic as Spanish forum host I discovered RealTracks and RealDrums. As Matt rightly states, each maker have proprietary process to develop its products. One of them I mentioned, Thomas Scarbye from Scarbee is a restless and imaginative developer of his own sampler libraries, I know Thomas work since 2000 y. aprox. We were working toghether in a Jazz guitar sampler library, we stop it because marketing and feasibility facts at that time, I think he makes the best Bass Guitar sampler libraries today, recently him got a well deserved deal with Native Instrument for all his bass libraries. Nowadays I am in the demo and beta test team for Overloud TH1 and VKFX with Thomas Seraffini, who is the original creator of IKM SampleTank and Amplitube. The point is I am participant witness of the work carried out, I know the work very well, there are countless hours, days and months of hard work, even years! to make a big sampler library, from the recording of raw instruments takes to demanding audio quality control implied, without forget the careful marketing, too many production details to enum here shortly.
I know little about how PG Music does, but definitely RealTracks/RD took my sense of wonder beyond limits, so hard to even imagine such work level behind it, the planning and management of recording sessions with amazing musicians, each different personalities, despite they are seasoned pro artist, used to record in studio, we should note that they must be emotionally at the right time to record all that RealTRacks able to convey those same emotions to final BIAB user. Also consider thousands of studio hours into edition and the steady software design to maintain a amazing unique algorithm working the way we know. Of course PGMusic should keep their procedures as a trade secret. Maybe in the future PGMusic could license or commercialize the patent to others, to allow third parties developers to create RT/RD for Band in a Box and RealBand, that could expand the market horizons in a similar way as Kontakt, Halion, Cubase VSTi and others standardize today, but I conjecture that is not so probable by now, I think already they have too much work pending in this RT/RD emergence times. In the meantime I stay calmdown ...recording my dreams with BIAB, RB plus RT/RD....by the way, I must to leave now, there is Eric (Marienthal) waiting in my studio, I have to confess I notice him less impatient since he lives in his own RealTracks in my BIAB

Carlos

Gabriel Arellano,
Nucleox Music