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I think a some people are missing the point here. There is nothing at all wrong with Neil Swainson's playing, or his style, in real life. What is very wrong is the way the samples of his playing have been selected and stitched together in the programming of the BB RealTracks. As I said before, the walking baselines are just not logical. Also Neil does not use anywhere near as many fancy runs and embellishments in his actual playing.

I already did the task of listening to Neil, admittedly on recordings, and then comparing this to the RealTracks we have. I agree about the 'inerplay' comment above, particularly at the slower tempos. But I still feel the RealTracks are a misrepresentation of his playing.

Is it possible that Neil's line were analysed as though they were a one or two-bar bass groove, that you might use in rock music? That will not work for jazz walking bass, of course. See my previous post on how one bar is supposed to run into the next.

I think PG Music has to start again with these jazz bass lines - even the new 'simple' and 'very simple' ones. I still find them very annoying to play against.

I wonder how Neil feels?



You put it very well Graham in this post and your previous ones. I am surprised more jazz players haven't complained about it. Surely if the programmers can get midi bass to be reasonably "logical" when playing different chords, they could do the same with the real bass tracks. Hopefully someone at PG music is reading this post and will work on it in future updates