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I use BiaB to get the song form down: AABA or AABB or whatever. Add an intro and ending. Use the Harmony tool to create 2 or 3 other parts.

Once I have this basic shape, I port over to RealBand. This is where I add most of the realracks and harmony parts. I go over the harmonies and edit for articulation. Usually I layer the harmonies across a couple different voices and turn the layers way down.

I often add percussion - maybe a few conga licks from a Realdrums, or beef up the downbeats with a MIDI bass drum. You can hear close-miked body percussion in some of my stuff.

If I like a particular lick in any of the reatracks that I like, I might hilight it and copy it a bunch of times, to every eighth measure, or bar 1 of each verse, or something. Usually on a separate track with nothing else in it.

I will often double the vocals and add chorus or reverb to the second iteration. Repeat as necessary.

Here I add any acoustic instruments recorded in my home studio.

I am likely to go back to BiaB one or more times to generate an extra Reatrack part, then import it to an empty track in RB.

...and lots of other stuff. I dont use any other DAW. There is nothing that I want that RealBand doesnt have, and no other DAW has Realtracks. For me, BiaB and Realband are two parts of a single system. Considered this way, no other DAW comes close.


If you want to hear some results, I just posted some stuff to the user showcase.

Last edited by flatfoot; 12/27/12 02:55 PM.
Flatfoot sez: Call me when 'Talent-in-a-Box' is ready to ship! -- [8{>

Got some tunes on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/flatfoot50
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My BiaB lesson site:
http://jdwolfe0.wixsite.com/learnbiab