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Thanks Matt, yes I have it but don't know what it's for or how to use it. Anything you can tell me about it would be appreiciated.!!!
Thanks, Walt


Hi Walt. Is "it" RealBand? Is that what you want to know about, or non-PG Music products? If it is RealBand, beyond referring to the material on this website, I am not qualified to comment. I use another competing product, only because I learned it many years before RealBand was developed. Many users here do know all about RealBand and could give better help.

In general, DAW is an acronym for Digital Audio Workstation, which means you use a computer with hardware and software for recording, mixing, playback and sometimes CD burning. It supports both audio and MIDI. Whereas BIAB is a phenomenal tool for composers, it has only one audio track and essentially two MIDI tracks, so if your goal is to develop a song using many audio or MIDI tracks, you will find it much easier to use RealBand or another DAW program.

A great advantage to RealBand, besides the fact you have it for free, is that it "reads" all the information from a BIAB song. Other DAW software can take BIAB tracks (both MIDI and audio, through a process called Drag & Drop), but you will not have the chord information transferred directly. If that is important to you, RealBand is the best choice. If not, you can still have other software sometimes guess the chords, or just recopy that information into the other program.

As far as other DAW software, they can all get you to the same place, but there are very substantial user-interface differences and price differences. Also, some have onerous copy protection schemes that I prefer to stay away from. PG Music products are so much better than most in this regard.

BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.