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you mean to say that...once youre settled on a style/tempo/arrangement in BiaB...u open the saved file in RB & it opens as a multi-track MIDI project...??? nice.



Correct but to clarify, it's only midi if you used an all midi style in Biab. Real Tracks are audio so your project could open in Real Band as all audio. Something else to consider, RB is not Biab and does not generate the RT/RD's anywhere near as fast as Biab can. A 5 RT track Biab song opens in like 5 seconds in Biab on my machine but it literally takes several minutes to open in RB because it's regenerating the tracks. An option is to freeze the RT's in Biab and drag and drop them into RB. For me at least I don't open Biab files in RB because it takes so long to open unless it's all midi but you can save your Biab tracks as wav's and or D&D them to RB.

RB is basically a full featured audio/midi recorder and sequencer just like Sonar or Reaper that also has a lot of Biab functions so I may open a midi file for example and start adding my own recorded tracks to it plus creating different Real Drums tracks and adding solo parts like you want to do. Or, I've even done a few originals where I started with just me laying down some tracks with my keyboard and then add a few Biab backing parts here and there. There's so many different ways to work in RB just start playing with it.

Biab 2012 was just released today and it now has even more things that used to be exclusive to RB like multiple VST synth and effects plugin support and other stuff. I may not need to use RB as much as I used to but it still has 48 tracks while Biab only has 7 plus I still really like being able to see all the individual tracks laid out accross the screen like any other DAW and of course Biab doesn't work that way.

The fun and experimentation goes on...

Bob

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