Greetings: Now making some progress - I hear the VST (MIDI) SoftSynth sound from the RealBand track - but the sound is not good. I am using a simple setup: MIDI Controller into RealBand - using Spectrasonics VST SoftSynth for bass. Delta 10 PCI (internal) Sound Card - super fast near zero latency (64 samples)

Problem: In RealBand - with this setup - Bass sound has digital distortion, and cracks and pops (usually due to latency setting to low , my latency = 64 samples ). The SAME exact setup, using Ableton Live 8 - sounds perfect, no pops, cracks, or digital distorion, just near 0 latency great sounding bass.

Conclusion: RealBand is great a so many things, but using as VST host has some issues (or unknown settings needed in version 2010.5) compared to Ableton Live 8. I would MUCH prefer to ONLY use RealBand for all recording and sequencing if I can figure out this bug...

thanks,