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Sonar handles upper bank patches much easier than RB.



Upper bank patches? Upper bank of what? Isn't that the name of a stretch of beach of North Carolina? Yes that was a joke, but I don't know what you mean by "handles upper bank patches". Accesses the sounds like when I select cartridge B set 3 patch 6 on my ESQ-1? If that is what you mean, I don't grasp how one software would "handle" them any different than another. You enter a patch number and it plays it.



OK I was in a bitchy mood last night so I apologize for that. I opened RB today and found out that it now does handle upper/higher bank names properly, i.e. shows the name of them instead just numbers and letters.

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The fact the RB is a 48 track DAW is a serendipitous bonus feature much like when your intelligent, sweet, loving spouse also happens to be attractive and/or rich. RB and BIAB are composition tools. Other than Garageband, I am not aware of other software packages that compose backing tracks. I do know that Sonar, Protools, Logic and the rest of the usual suspects do not. If your "workflow" (and I love the application of that word here - fits perfectly) includes playing everything in live with either real instruments or soft synths and drum machines, or even bringing in side players to so what you can't, then Sonar is for you. Sonar (which I have and use, BTW) was never intended to be what RB is.

Another way to state the bottom line is that RB can do most of what Sonar does (and remember, that is just the value add part of RB), but Sonar can't do the main thing that RB does. Compose.



But that is what BiaB is for. I don’t think many people here realize how many users of other DAWs use BiaB. I know I was amazed at the number of Sonar users that use BiaB. BiaB is the moneymaker for PGMusic and if the merge it with RB they may very well loose some customer base. Especially now that Toontracks and others are getting in on the auto-generating backing tracks business.

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I agree that a repackage may be in order that accentuates the strengths of RB.



That may help but a lot of us use other DAWs for many reasons with probably the most common being familiarity. Again why change it we are happy with what we are using?

I hope PGMusic keeps Biab and RB separate programs. I would like to see BiaB incorporate some of the RB backing track features into it.

PS - For the record yes I have used RB. I just like Sonar better. Also I only have two DAWS, Sonar and RB. I don't need any more.

Back in my day the only time we started panic buying was when the bartender shouted "last call"!

64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware