Originally Posted by Charlie Fogle
RT3182 is the same instrument being played by the same session musician while sounding completely different in one of these Styles than it sounds in the current Style you are using.
How will RT3182 sound "completely different" in a different style? RT3182 will sound exactly the same because it did not change! The overall mix will sound different of course but RT3182 will not.

Originally Posted by Charlie Fogle
RT3182 has hundreds of variations recorded for many different genres of music.
I just ran a test* of regenerating this RT on a track and at most I heard just a handful of variations and most of these were pretty subtle. Some of them sounded a bit "off" in how they were played or how they were recorded, like they didn't quite match the previous and following bar (I have seen this a lot with BIAB over the years.) I certainly didn't hear "hundreds of variations" so I'd have to say the NI guitars, with their limited sets of patterns, would compare quite favorably especially since you can mix pattern sets in NI using the same guitar. On the other hand, the RT 3182 sounded more human to me, maybe because of the issues I heard?

* Test was done in 6 different keys using all chords of that key. Song was 16 bars and was regenerated approximately 20 times in each key.