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Bob thanks for your interest in my situation. I will detail my situation and see if you get any insight. Currently I am using all RT as the instrumtaion on all arrangements, obviously including realdrums. I do on rare occation use a midi strack for stings and piano. I do all the arrangements in biab. I use alot of changes at bars..ie at bar 16 mute acoustic strum, at bar 24 all instruments back to normal. I think that feature is one of the hidden jewels in biab. It is accessed by "edit, current bar. Then i save as WAV. Right now I am using forte as my dxi. I have a great number of wonderful synths at my disposal such as a Korg M3, Akai samplers, Yamaha s30, Kork M1 etc. but I just can't intergrate them at this point because it adds to the compication factor. Then I load one wav file into Real band for each track. The reason I go to real tracks is because of the drums not transfering over when I freeze in biab. The reason the drums don't transfer is a mystery to me. Apparently it is a recognized situation...a bug. When my songs are in realtracks I make a jukebox file called sunday am or whatever and rename my songs "1trading my sorrows" "2shout to the Lord" so that then que up in order. Then I use my transport to start play. I have a home studio that is equipt with Sonar Producer and all kinds of stuff, and Real band is a step down in the function department for me, but I am trying to use it because it displays both the chord sheet and the lyrics. I use the standard realdrums that comes with the style I choose, I don't have a "choir" as such, its a "praise team" two or three singers. I am the Pastor as well as the song leader so I don't have a conflict on the stage (thank the Lord).The lyric entry is a real pain...but necessary at this pont. What I may do is bail out completely on RB and save a stereo WAV in biab and load it into Soundforge 9 like I did prior and control my arrangements with markers and a midi keyboard I link a avi file created in Movie studio another sony product with the word to the song and they play back in sync. It works GREAT. What I loose is the ability to have control over individual tracks..ie. pull the drums or bass out real time if my drummer shows up for church...Bob I would be glad to pm you my email info....I don't know how unless I just post it in this forum...Thanks again
Ralph
BYW this forum post is even acting goofy, if I take to long to write my response it times out..I've noticed it the last few weeks... oh well