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However, I suspect you are complaining about the style of base playing used in the bass RealTracks - in other words the lines the bass player laid down. Here I might agree that the input chosen by the programmers seems to be quite limited. But is suppose it really is a question of individual preferences about how the bass player should play the lines.

I also have problems with the bass lines. I often wonder if they have been correctly programmed, because I cannot determine where '1' is by listening to the first note in the bar. In addition, there are too many grace notes and fills. I much prefer a straight four-in-the-bar walking bass but it is almost impossible to get this at slow tempos. I just like a more obvious bass player, which is what I find most real bass players do these days.

I will concede that there have been changes over the history of jazz playing and it took a long time for them to create quarter-note walking bass lines with a real swing feel. For a couple of decades after the advent of bebop, bass playing went off the rails and there are still some bass players who do not often start a bar with the root note of the chord.

Many frontline players, like me, listen to the bass player to 'hear' the chords and that is why I need that chord root note at the start of a bar. This is probably why I prefer Jodi Proznick to Neil Swainson. But I do wonder about that programming. Sometimes it seems to me that the lines slip a whole beat and that is why the first note is not obvious. Or perhaps the lines played for the recordings of RealTracks do not handle more complex chords. I really don't know what is the problem but sometimes I have to revert to old midi styles because I just can't tell where I am in a chord progression.





Apologies for digging up an old post but I couldn't agree more with Graham on this subject.
I find that for non complex chord patterns (like blues)the bass patterns are reasonably acceptable, but when I enter the chords for a song with more complex chord structures (eg Beautiful Love, Just Friends, Stella etc) I find the bass playing in RT's jumping all over the place . The new simple and very styles in the latest build have helped somewhat, but in most cases I still find myself going back to midi for the bass part as RT's are just too busy and unpredictable. Oliver Gannon's guitar comping and the drum parts are very tasteful, but Neil Swainson is definitely overplaying IMO. I realise some like this style so maybe a new jazz bass choice could be given...like very, very, very simple :-)
Until PG come up with a solution, I reluctantly will mainly use midi bass..