Real Band is not another version of Biab. It's a completely separate audio midi sequencer that PG has managed to graft some Biab functions into.

There has been a lot of discussion about this during testing over the years. As a full DAW, RB does much, much more in the way of mixing, mastering and editing than Biab ever could. The whole point of moving your project into RB is to take advantage of that so no, a good engineer would not care about those things being ported over from Biab because you're going to change most of it anyway.

For me at least, all I use Biab for is to audition styles and Real Tracks because the RT generation times are faster in Biab than they are in RB. I don't bother tweaking the song to death in Biab when I know I'm going to be finishing it up in RB because RB has much more to offer in that regard.

Those who are real experts in Biab need to change their thinking when it comes to RB. RB lays out your tracks in a linear fashon. Don't bother changing styles at bar 32 in Biab and then complain that doesn't port over to RB when you can see bar 32 right on your screen with RB. Just pick a different style in RB select bar 32 on a blank track and generate the part there without having to wipe out your original part at bar 32. With 48 tracks to play with you can pretty much do that an much as you want. Same with all the different VSTi's. Don't bother setting all that up in Biab, just use Biab for the basic song using your one favorite GM synth. Save the VSTi's for RB because again, with 48 tracks you can set up 3 or 4 different synths to play the same midi part at the same time and then mix/match them to your hearts content. You can't do any of that in Biab.

With Biab every time you change styles or synths, you've wiped out what you already did so you can't listen to those tracks side by side in real time for comparison or even play them both together for effect. Learn to take advantage of what RB offers and forget about worrying that your completly tweaked Biab song doesn't open up perfectly in RB. It's not supposed to.

Bob

Last edited by jazzmammal; 05/08/12 08:32 AM.