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(More customer reviews)4.5 stars - For the most part this is a fantastic product, and one that a home musician or music student should not be without.
It works well as a learning tool, with dozens of examples to help an aspiring guitarist learn solos and progressions, and to play with an emsemble. On the other hand it's an excellent composition tool, which speeds up realization of ideas. You don't need to spends days arranging your new song. The program does a great job and gives you over a hundred styles to choose from. The soloist feature is amazing - you can have your own top session players whenever you want. I was able to compose a song in the first couple of days of using the program, and with minor touch-ups outside the software, complete it.
Another amazing thing is the ability to use real instruments, pre-recorded by top studio musicians, which the program is able to massage into whatever harmonic and rhythmic structure you use in your song, sounding like real recording. That works amazingly well in jazz, where you can generate incredible saxophone solos, and a killer rhythm section to go with that.
Now for the not-so-good news - the program interface is extremely cluttered and disorienting. I find myself lost in a maze of dialog boxed and a myriad of options. Very confusing, and requires careful reading of the manual, watching the included videos, and a few calls to the help desk, which, by the way is very friendly and avaible in the off-hours.
Overall, I would say it's worth the time and money spent - it will improve your skills as a soloist and composer.
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