While I am familiar with BIAB and have been using it for quite sometime, I have never used RB. Why would I want to use this program rather than the program I usually edit with -- Sonar?

Convince me.

No.

I don't feel like convincing you.

Why don't you actually TRY IT OUT for awhile and see for yourself what you might like or dislike about it?


--Mac

Try opening a Biab file in Sonar

Here's the deal for me anyway..

I can do the realtrack generations in RB with much more versatility than BiaB (which makes it a 'plus' to BiaB)
Because of this (and the style versatility also) I always move anything from BiaB to RB to customize it anyway.

Once I am there, I can do *most* of what I can do in RB (without Sonar or any others) and still retain those generating benefits. So why leave yet? I keep on workin' with ease.

If I do find a job I need to do outside RB, I'll use the export features to get the tracks out and do what I need to do. But if I keep a current version in RB I can go back quite a long way at any point to rework something (like generate a new 'break' section at any time or add a section). I find those little conveniences very nice.

There are a few things in Sonar that are not possible in RB. There are many more (if you use the generating features) in RB that are not possible in Sonar. Depends on how you work I guess. I like being able to go back a year later and rework something.

Try it, you may like it

I agree with rharv. After listening to some of the demos and realizing what was possible sound-wise, I purchased BIAB a couple of years ago for it's ability to quickly generate styles and tracks, not really knowing anything about RB at the time. But after a while I got curious about RB and started to fool around with it. The more time I spent with it the more I realized that RB was closer to the way I wanted to work. I like the fact that it combines BIAB's ability to quickly generate styles, realtracks, etc., within a more traditional DAW environment. To me it is much more intuitive to work with various individual tracks when I can see them all in front of me. I find that even beyond it's ability to do BIAB tricks it is a suprisingly powerful DAW in itself and does most of what I need to do. I am to the point that I hardly ever use BIAB anymore.

Terry

You may be interested in compound time signatures most of the time -> you won't be happy with RB - stick with Sonar.

RB handles compound time sigs just fine, however it does not notate them in the notation window.. if you need odd-time notation Martin is correct.

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Why don't you actually TRY IT OUT for awhile and see for yourself what you might like or dislike about it?

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Up to Mac's challange I plugged in my drive and opened RB. After answering the setup questions, I loaded up a BIAB song I have been rethinking. It took a minute or two to render everything before I clicked play. "Okay, what's up here", I said to myself and clicked some button on the top left.

CRASH!

... open up the program again and it says, "RB crashed, would you like to use default settings?". Yep, I would. Oh, we have to set it up again... ok. Load up the song... 1-2 minutes later press play.
"Alright, let's try right clicking the guitar track too see what's behind door 1"

CRASH!

So I reboot the computer and repeat above proceedure but load a song created with the 2010.5 version. right click a track... interestinhg... hey where is the solo button? I want to listen to the guitar more closely. So I switch to the mixer view.... no solo button... oh it must be these check marks....

CRASH!

Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Didn't open a song this time but entered some chords in the chord grid. I pressed play to see what I would get....

CRASH!

So, In 30 minute of playing with RB, I see what I was missing

This machine can run Sonar 8 Producer all day without a hiccup. BIAB never burps either. I think I'll leave RB in the box.