Hi,

I am considering the purchase of BIAB, RealBand or finale notation software (possibly this fall when I hope to have more time to use it). I have a few questions and probably will post more questions as purchase time approaches as I think of them.

Thanks,
John

I was trying to find the general difference(s) between BIAB and RealBand (RB). I could not easily find anything. Where might it be described or what is the difference.

Can BIAB or RealBand do the following:

Am I correct in assuming I can do a count in of one or two bars as the user specifies. Something as simple a computer voice giving the count would be perfect.

Can I specify an unlimited number of repeats of the song and if I want also decide to have only 4 repeats of the song.

Primary use: I play guitar. I will have BIAB/RB provide the drums, base, piano then record my guitar jazz chord rhythm over top of this on a separate track and use this to practice melody and improvising against. I doubt I will ever use any tracks other than drums,bass,piano and I will probably be very limited in the use of styles (basic jazz, funk, blues styles only).

Related to the "Primary Use" I may want to go back and rerecord (change) my rhythm track.

Related to the "Primary Use" I may want to also record the melody and the solos.


The reason I have been looking at Finale notation software is because I will at times write songs and hand out the lead sheets to others to jam. So with Finale I can feed a Midi guitar into it while doing a solo, capture parts I like then use these melody segments to to create a song. I can also change the notes including changing the timing (not just the note itself). So when I saw the printed notes in the RB video I was wondering if it can do the midi capture, the adjustments, and the printout as a lead sheet with the chord symbols.

Related to the "Primary Use" Can I record a few solos and play back only one of them at a time to look for segements that I might want to use for writing songs.

Finale requires a major upgrade to my computer (new one) I guess I need to look at your system requirements. Maybe is there is a manual on the website I could study that to reduce the number of questions.

I guess that is it for now.

Thanks again.
John