In another thread Silvertones said

"Styles do not do anything to Real Tracks. You can have a "blank" style up there and if you manually assign RTs to each instrument they will sound exactly the same."

That set me thinking and Bob Norton's comments about prefering MIDI to RTs crystalized my thoughts. I should state that I am a self taught pianist who knows very little about music and only play my keyboard with BIAB for my own amusement. From the time I started using RTs I had a feeling of disappointment and put it down to my lack of musical appreciation and ability to make the most of BIAB. Yes, RTs sound great but they were rather boring compared with MIDI styles - I have been using BIAB for over ten years. I had got used to sorting through dozens of MIDI styles and coming up with lots of great options that fitted the particular song I was playing and saving. In comparison the "all RT" styles tend to lack variety and lots seem to rely on different solos to sound different from each other. Even if I substituted different RT tracks in place of the original MIDI ones they weren't very exciting, although the sound quality was better.

In comparison when there were just RDs, before RTs came along, I always found satisfaction in substituting an RD for MIDI drums.

Perhaps RTs don't have much to offer for me and my kind of playing and don't warrent all the hard drive space issues and generation time that they bring with them

Tony Wright