Hi, 5string -

Hopefully this answers your questions.

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1) 40 real trks in 10 bands - what's the 10 bands all about ?



You will get 40 RealTracks (RT) that are grouped together into a style (or styles) that you can select for your song, essentially creating a band. So they might take a particular bass RT, a piano RT, a guitar RT, and an organ RT, and group them together into a RealTrack style that you can select. This would be the "band". You, of course, are free to replace the instruments (players) they selected with different ones. I think once you get into it, however, you're gonna wish you had bought the ultra-pak.

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2) a drum SET or style SET ? how big is a set (would 1 style set contain only 1 style)



RealDrums are pre-recorded phrases of live (not MIDI) drums that can be time stretched according to your song (within limits). Each set of RealDrums contain multiple drumming styles. With the MegaPak, you get the first 5 sets of RealDrums (so as not to be confused by the term "drum set"). The 77 styles sets are all the MIDI styles that PGMusic produces. Each set of MIDI styles contain multiple styles, so in the end, I think you end up with a thousand-some-odd styles in total (or some higher number I can't remember right now).

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3) don't understand about real trks (i've listened to the demo's - they're awesome) what's the diff
between a real track and a style. if i had real trks, would i still need different styles. are the
real trks just sounds only, with no particular organization to them - much like the midi sounds
that comefrom a sound canvas ?



RealTracks are pre-recorded phrases of live musicians playing, so it is audio, not MIDI. PGMusic has created an algorithm that can time stretch (to a point) and pitch shift (to a point) the phrases to replace or enhance your MIDI accompaniment. RealTracks follow chord progressions, not notes, so you can't get RealTracks to play a written melody. But they make one heck of a backing band. There are RealTracks styles, but that is just a grouping of different RealTracks into a "band", so you don't have to select them individually yourself. They're a lot of fun to work with and create some great music. But you do lose the note-level control over your music that you have with MIDI. What's cool also, is that just adding one or two RealTracks to a song can take away the mechanical/electronic/stiff sounds that MIDI can sometimes produce.

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4) what's this" real band" all about ?



RealBand is a MIDI/Audio sequencer application (DAW) that takes most of PowerTracks Pro (another sequencer/DAW that PGMusic sells) and blends in many of the BIAB features directly. So within RealBand, you can read in a BIAB file and it can generate/regenerate the parts based on the style used; you can use RealTracks and RealDrums; you can record your own instrument or vocal playing. You get 48 tracks to use as you please. It supports DX and VST effects and a bunch of other features.

Remember, PGMusic offers a 30-day money back guarantee if you don't like it, but I think you will.

John

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