I am in the BIAB to SONAR camp, because I also learned these two programs a long time ago. However, I believe RealBand has one other advantage that neither BIAB nor any other DAW can do, and that is to regenerate just part of a RealTrack. With BIAB, I can generate several alternative full tracks and edit them down in SONAR to a preferred final single track, but RealBand would make this task simpler.


BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.