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Do you think it would be even possible for PG to make these styles (with artists permission of course) just by isolating these artists instruments or for that matter getting a copy of the master track for their recordings, and then doing the realtrack behind the scene magic?


I'm not part of the PG Music staff, but I can confidently say that's not going to happen, for a number of reasons:
  • It's not likely that many of these tracks exist in a usable form, with the instruments sufficiently isolated.
  • Getting rights to use those particular tracks would be a logistical nightmare.
  • The cost would be prohibitive.
  • Trying to fit recordings done for different songs - with different instruments and different effects - to have a homogeneous sound would be a nightmare.
  • RealTracks have to play over a variety of chords that aren't in the source material.
  • Licks taken from well-known songs will stick out in your song like a sore thumb.
It makes much more sense to hire someone to record in a controlled session to play in the given style. For example, there's RealTrack which does a convincing Mark Knopfler imitation. It's captures the "flavor" of the style without using the same licks, which means it can be used on variety of songs.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?