User Guide

Chapter 7: RealTracks and RealDrums
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“Memo” is a memo description of the style. These are stored in bb\RDPGMemos.txt file. You can also add your
own memos in the User Comments box below.
The “Artist Bio” shows brief summaries of the careers of the top drummers featured in RealDrums.
This shows the current RealDrums for this song. This can either come from the style, or a specific RealDrums for
this song, set in this dialog.
Tip: RealDrums in styles are assigned in the StyleMaker. Press the [Misc.] button or use the menu command Style | Misc.
Settings to go to the Misc. Style Settings dialog and make your selections in “RealDrums Settings.”
Set this if you want MIDI drums and want to override a RealDrums that is
set in the style.
This sets the drums to no RealDrums override for the song, and optionally also forces MIDI
drums (i.e., no RealDrums for the style either).
The RealDrums list can be sorted by any of the column headings.
- * Click in this column to enter an asterisk, indicating that this is a favorite style.
- Click on the name of the RealDrums style name that you want to select for the song. Names ending in a caret ^
have variations available.
- ^ Clicking in the caret column will show the variations for the selected RealDrums style (if available).
- Genre is the type of music that the RealDrums style comes from, such as Jazz, Rock, or Country.
- Genre (more) suggests additional types of music that the RealDrums style might work for.
- /4 indicates the time signature, which is 4/4 by default. If the column is empty the time signature is 4/4, if there
is a 3 in this column the time signature is 3/4.
- Ev* indicates the feel of the RealDrums style, either Even or Swing.
- The listing in the 8 column indicates whether the meter is based on eighth notes (8) or sixteenth notes (16).
- Lo is the slowest tempo for which the RealDrums style is suited.
- Hi is the fastest tempo recommended for the style.
- X indicates a style with a tempo that is out of range for the song.
- N/A are styles not found in the Drums folder.
- Artist is the name of the drummer who recorded the RealDrums.
- # is the number of the RealDrums set for the style.
You can type in your own comments about any style in the “User
comments” field and they are saved in a file called
RDUserMemos.txt