In Gypsy Jazz, the word Tremolo means a rapid up and down strumming of the guitar strings, usually while holding a chord. There may be another word for this fast repeated strumming of strings, but I see a reference to "mandolin tremolo" in some styles that should be similar to the Gypsy Tremolo, except mandolin tremolo is usually only on one string pair.

In practice, the volume of the Tremolo can rise from a very soft level to max volume, or fall from max volume to a low level. Don't know how RB would allow one to specify this, and how long to hold the tremolo. But, I imagine it would be easy to record ten or so tremolo chords and let the RealTracks pitch-shifting create needed chords.

I also agree with Sandra that having Gypsy Bolero, Tango and Bossa styles would be a great addition to the Gypsy styles in RB2011.

As long as I'm making a wish list, there is a significant trend in Gypsy Jazz to incorporate an accordion as a solo instrument along with guitar and violin (listen to Romane, HotClub of SanFrancisco, Pearl Django for examples). I have used the MIDI Tango accordion to simulate the style but it would be great to have some RealTracks for Accordion in both wet and dry musette timbres.

Keep up the good work in adding to BIAB - I've been using it almost since it was first released.

Jerry Schneider
Hot Club of Boulder