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bear with me, i'm still learning my way around after upgrading from 2008.
i have the 2018 Ultrapak and upgraded with this year's plus pak so I assume I have everything except maybe a few bonuses I've missed along the way.
before i decided to go the download route i got 2018 megapak on discs and then I upgraded to the ultrapak via downloads.
one of the discs is marked realcombos. i know what they are but do they automatically get loaded with certain styles? and is there a way to see which styles use them in the stylepicker?
thanks in advance
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RealCombos are just the packaging of RealStyles for the Pro and Mega versions of BIAB (you said you originally had the Mega version). As far as I know, if you download all the 2018 style files and install them, they will include everything that would have been on the RealCombo disk.
BIAB 2008 was when RealTracks were introduced and they were handled differently than they are today (all RealTracks had to be converted to WAV files taking up a lot of disk space). A later release (I can't remember if it was 2009 or 2010 allowed the RealTrack WMA files to be processed natively without converting to WAV first.
Unless you specifically have any additional content disks from 2008, I would recommend not installing it at all. And since you said you upgraded your 2018 MegaPak to 2018 UltraPak, and assuming you have all the downloads (the program files, the additional content, all the RealTracks/RealDrums, etc), then I would just start with installing the downloaded files en toto. That will give you everything required for the 2018 Ultra Pak (you shouldn't need to install the Mega Pak first; everything in the Mega Pak should already be in the Ultra Pak). Then, I would run 2018 to make sure it works properly. I would also download any 2018 related patch files (you should just need the most recent) and any 2018 related RealTracks patch files and install them. Just to be safe, I would run the BIAB cleanup routine, rebuild the RealTracks picker, rebuild the RealDrums picker, and rebuild the Style Picker.
If you then upgraded to 2019 (presumably using the more inexpensive ProPak, which is just the new stuff), once you have that all working, then you should install the files for the ProPak for 2019 (but you didn't mention 2019, so not sure).
I hope this made sense.
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Bob, John answered your question. I just wanted to pass along a tip in case it helps: Ctrl+T toggles between the 'new' GUI and the one like 2008.
There were major changes to the GUI in 2018 and version 2019 looks the same, but you can still have the old look if you want it. I used the 'old' view for a while last year until I learned to add Custom icons in the new GUI so I had everything I needed.
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snip ... One of the discs is marked realcombos. (edited) Do they automatically get loaded with certain styles? Is there a way to see which styles use them in the stylepicker? snip ... Bob, As you know, a RealCombo is a band of RealTracks that sound good when collected together in a style. +++ THIS LINK +++ has a list of the more than 300 styles available in the MegaPAK. The styles are grouped by the genres of Country, Jazz and Pop. Underneath the style listing is a RealTracks instrument list that provide the RealTracks name as well as demonstration sound file links of the instrument solo and how it sounds with a RealCombo. The are grouped by genre. I thought the StylePicker listed which RealCombos (Band) each of the 300+ styles are associated with but I don't see that in the 2019 release. I thought another possibility might be to use the SongPicker to scroll through the names of demo songs but the song listings don't have the RealCombo names so you can't easily cross reference the information you asked.
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