Rustyspoon#,

You're correct that you can spend a lot of time waiting for Band-in-a-Box to render. Selective rendering could reduce wasted time. But at the same time that's why I appreciate the multi-riff feature in RealBand. I believe the more you try to force Band-in-a-Box to render bars exactly to match specifically what you hear in your mind, the more time you will spend waiting while tracks are rendered. That is time lost.

I also believe new users loose more time than seasoned users. New users must try more styles and instruments than seasoned users because new users are not as familiar with the available styles and RealTracks. Demo songs can not accurately represent how an instrument will sound with the chord progressions, other instruments and styles you may be using in your song.

I can say that experience seems to dramatically speed up the song building process, especially if you frequently create songs similar to your past creations.

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