>>> Well, I was just saying what I'd like to see, and made the same request in the Wish List a while back. I don't see holding back on a RB-ish mixer in BIAB would be a serious anything, except improvement.

We didn't introduce track-based effects in BB with 2011.5, if that is what you were looking for. Those are present in RealBand.

Here are things that you can do in BB's mixer that you cannot do in RealBand's mixer:
- set audio reverb (simple slider)
- tone control (treble/bass)
- set patches (RealTracks, RealDrums, MIDI)
- resize the mixer to any size you want, with all the elements scaling.
- (option to) auto-hide the mixer (move it small and out of the way) during playback, so you can see the chords
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Here are things that you can do in RealBand's mixer that you cannot do in BB's mixer:
- assign custom F/X to each track, and use those to adjust things like audio reverb, or tone control
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Note: We may add custom track-based F/X to BB in the future. This would use more CPU horsepower, and BB is doing lots of things already during playback, so its not highest item on the list.

BTW,
The offical 2011.5 video isn't ready yet, but here is a brief video showing the mixer.
Mixer Video : http://screencast.com/t/zvZnjEr1

Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.