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for what its worth, i’ve ended up going back to my Mac OSX system for music making. I REALLY REALLY wanted RB ( on windows bootcamp ) to
work for me - or to put it bluntly - just work.. But for me it just wasnt ready for “prime time”.



No, no, no man. You're giving up way too soon. It's obvious you're a Mac guy and that's fine, Mac's are killer machines but so is a Win 7 machine. Don't get hung up on CoreAudio/CoreMidi. A super geek can say it's more elegant to have it built into the OS but really who cares as long as it works? All the hardware mfg's for Windows have their own ASIO and they all pretty much work perfect. As soon as you plug in your USB interface for the first time, the ASIO gets installed and that's it. Who cares at that point if it's ASIO or CoreMidi? My ASIO works fine for live playing with RB. RB itself works fine with no probs at all with one glaring exception: VST implementation concerning tempo locking. This may or may not be a big issue with you. I have Jamstix. In addition to it being a very good drum sound module, it also can create it's own drum grooves. It's the creating of the drum grooves that RB does not support and it's very annoying to a lot of us. Using JS as a drum module to play prerecorded midi drum/percussion parts works fine and so does almost all of the VSTi's out there plus all the different effects plugins except those like some delays that need to lock to the tempo of your song. Like my drum groove creating example, those delay effects that need to lock tempos with the host don't work either. Yes, it's an issue and yes it's been talked about here and in the Wishlist for years. Other than than RB is great and that one thing is no reason to give up on the program.

RB is a killer program. What other DAW allows you to have a project consisting of several midi parts plus several audio parts and then you decide something is missing so you create a few Biab tracks to spice things up? That is an awesome feature. Using Jamstix I can play a Biab created midi drum part and it sounds absolutely killer. That along with several Real Drum parts carefully mixed together to form one good drum track is a great way to come up with very realistic computer generated drum/rhythm/percussion tracks. Same thing with all the other instruments, if you're a guitarist and need some piano rhythm tracks, RB will create one for you using all the thousands of Biab midi styles plus all the piano Real Tracks. None of this has anything to do with ASIO. The only time ASIO comes up is with mixing delays like Eddie talks about or live playing of softsynths delays and for me at least ASIO works fine for those things.

Bob




Ditto

John
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