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I'm using a real tracks style, which has no real track selected for 'Piano'. It shows as white. I want to add a midi strings section.



You're using an all Real Tracks style so there's no midi in it. Pick a midi style and then add the same Real Tracks to that. Here's the cool but confusing part: The RT's are not influenced by the style at all because they're audio files. You can (and some have) put a bluegrass fiddle RT in a bebop latin jazz midi style or a counrty waltz RT in a heavy metal rock midi style or anything else you can think of. Realize the time sig doesn't matter either with RT's. You can pick a 5/4 midi style if you want but a waltz RT is audio so guess what? It's still in 3 because it was recorded in 3. You would be surprised how good some of these weird hybrids can sound.
As long as I'm giving you some ideas, try this in Real Band. There you have 48 tracks to work with. How about trying out 5 different drum tracks, 3 Real Drums and 2 midi drums with all 5 based on different styles? No problem in RB and you can do the same with all the different instruments. That means you may pick one original style to base the tune on but maybe you only use that style for guitar and bass. Everything else could be using all different styles. You can create some pretty cool sounding songs that way. Maybe you have a good midi file but half the parts suck while the other half are pretty good. In RB you can keep the good tracks and use the Biab and/or RT's function to create the rest. For me at least, Biab is the quick down and dirty program. Just enter the chords, pick a style and voila, instant song. RB is much more flexible and powerful which is why it's my favorite program because it's so much fun just messing around with all this.

Bob

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