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When and why do you leave RealBand to use another sequencer - if you leave it at all.



I don't even though I have Sonar Home Studio and Reaper. There's flaws with Real Band but until you completely understand it to the point you become one of the main guys anwering question here about it you won't know if those things matter to you or not. Automation? It's cool but for what I do I'm not switching. VST support? Contrary to what you read here RB has very good VST support. If there's some VST plugin that won't work inside RB it's usually a freebie somebody downloaded from somewhere that hasn't been updated in like 6 years and it's a conflict with your interface, nothing at all to do with RB. The only VST problem is tempo matching. Say you want to use a delay effect and have the delay match the tempo of the song, RB can't do that. Or, you have a drum plugin like Jamstix and you want it to create the drum part for you, that also requires tempo matching. Other than that, RB handles every VST I have and I have a lot of them.

You asked about any free synths that emulate classic sounds. Those are exactly the ones you may have problems with but then Scott, Rockstar_Not is our go to guy about those. He can tell you which ones are good. I talked about Sampletank in the other thread and their $10 sale. Trust me, those synths will give you all the classic sounds you will ever need until you become a total pro with this stuff. Just listen to some of the Youtube vids about it.

My advice to you is don't even think about other software right now. Use Biab/RB until you could be a beta tester. Only then will be able to judge what's missing that you just have to have.

Bob

Biab/RB latest build, Win 11 Pro, Ryzen 5 5600 G, 512 Gig SSD, 16 Gigs Ram, Steinberg UR22 MkII, Roland Sonic Cell, Kurzweil PC3, Hammond SK1, Korg PA3XPro, Garritan JABB, Hypercanvas, Sampletank 3, more.