Bluegrass Picker:

As a fellow bluegrass player, I dug a little deeper into the lack of a drum lead in. I am running 2025, not 2026, and I do not have a drum lead in. I tried it using Coyote and then CoolSoft Virtual Midi (my normal go to one) and tried the using MME, ASIO and WAS with no change. I had no drum lead in at all.

Now what I did find, since I am familiar with most of the bluegrass RT styles, was to load the 3 similar styles, _BG_BDFS (Fiddle Solo), _BG_BDGS (Guitar Solo) and _BG_BDMS (Mandolin Solo) and none of those 3 related styles gave me a drum lead in. I am wondering if that is the way they were designed.

What I have come up with is this:

1. If the style has a MIDI Drum Track (Yellow), I get a MIDI count in like normal.
2. If the style has a RT Drum Track (Green), I get a Real Track count in like normal.
3. If the style has a RT Instrument Track (Green) populating what would normally be the drum track, I DO NOT get a lead in.

I tried about 20 styles and those fitting the description of either #1 or #2, I get a normal drum lead in.

However I did find many bluegrass styles where the drum track fits the description of #3, where I do not get a drum lead in. Styles _BG_BDFS (Fiddle Solo), _BG_BDGS (Guitar Solo) and _BG_BDMS (Mandolin Solo) have an instrument populating the drum track and I am figuring that is why I do not get a drum lead in.

Here are a few more I found that have other instruments populating the drum track and I get no drum lead in. I am sure there are more.

_BGBDBS8.STY
_BGBDFS8.STY
_BGBDGS8.STY
_BGBDMS8.STY
_BGFDM_F.STY
_BGM_BNJ.STY
_BG_BAND.STY

Try some of the styles listed above and let us know if you either get a drum lead in or not. I tested these using my own songs and also with the provided demo song, with the same results.

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