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I went back and took another look at Reaper. You can download it for free for the 1st 30 days with all features enabled. I figure there's nothing to lose to try it, so why not? It took me a few tries to get midi i/o working. I like the interface better than Wavepad and Reaper handles midi better also--but not as good as Real Band, IMO. If I decided to buy Reaper, it's only $40 and that includes a couple of future upgrades. It looks like Reaper has a helpful forum. It will take me some time to get really going with it because I'll be using mostly RB and BIAB for my major projects. Reaper does have some neat features and the pgm size is way smaller than Ableton Live, partly because there are no libraries. Time will tell.

I had no idea, when I first bought biab 4-5 years ago, that sound was this complex. I guess most of us just never thought of it that way and we took everything for granted. So much to learn........ Thanks again to everyone for your valuable suggestions/comments.

Stan



I just mixed a song in RB. It was all midi tracks. I changed the midi style to a real style, recorded the midi melody track to audio, mixed, and merged all into a stereo .wav file. I never did get the DAW plugin to work, but maybe someday......... I'm not sure why the pitch sounds a little off (just a tad) after merging. I checked in Support and didn't find anything that seemed on point to address this issue.
The output is useable though.

Stan

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