Originally Posted by Matt Finley
They already have this. We just don't have very many that were pre-made.

BIAB introduced MultiStyles some years ago but you don't hear much about it because to my knowledge there are no recent new ones. However, you can construct your own. Here's a bit about it from Help, Index:

Band-in-a-Box MultiStyles are styles that can have up to 24 Substyles; original Band-in-a-Box styles had two Substyles, "a" and "b". Band-in-a-Box MultiStyles typically have four Substyles, but may have up to twenty-four, selected by using part markers "a" through "x". -- and there's a lot more info to read --
Yeah, I know about MultiStyles. I suspect it was one of those "50 New Features" that was never fully implemented. There are only a handful of them available so they really do not come close to granting my wish! And, of the few I have tried they don't really do much more than drop or add an instrument here or there. Same style but without the banjo. Same style but add an organ.

After 13 years of diligently buying every upgrade and add-on my biggest problem with BIAB is how to find styles.
- the search feature that lets me type in a song title is almost useless; it returns a huge list of styles that only remotely resemble the input song.
- the genre tags on styles often seem wrong to me
- filter string is often unhelpful; why are _SNEAKY and _HOPSKIP returned in a search for polka?
- I can't search within a search result to narrow results
- I can't filter OUT certain styles; jazz and klezmer will never be of interest to me
- I can't save search results

If they made significant improvements to the search maybe my wish wouldn't even be worth considering. But given the limits of the current search and the fact that this is only getting worse as we get even more RealStyles, we desperately need a better way to locate styles.

So...

My wish is for an effort by PGM's pro music team to curate many/most/all of the 12,207 styles I own so that, once I choose a style, a short (or long) list of complementary styles are identified.

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Thanks for the tip about making my own MultiStyles but I already have a day job! For me, producing music is supposed to be fun and relaxing. Creating MultiStyles wouldn't be either! And anyway, given my growing set of 12,207 styles, I'd be highly unlikely to ever reuse a MultiStyle I might create. Once I locate a couple of complementary styles and use them in my song I am not likely to ever use that combination again.