OK, so I guess it is my turn. I worked with RB back on day 1, when it first came out. I recall the orgins of the program to meet the simple needs of multitrack recording which BIAB was not designed to do. At the time I was already working in Protools and perfectly content. In those days there were no Real Tracks so it was a simple matter of rendering the BIAB midi track to a wave and importing into ProTools.

Then with the introduction of Win7 all hell broke loose. ProTools and the MBox were not made to be compatable with Win7. For months we screamed over in the digi forum, but then Avid purchased the company and turned a deft ear to our complaints. "So I didn't leave ProTools, Protools left me"! My tag line to this day.

But now there was RealBand. So I give it a good try. Unfortuantely, at the time it simply could not compete with the functions, features, capabiltiies and workflow of ProTools. Remember RealBand was and still is a free addon to BIAB and Protools cost more than I have spent on software to this day. So it was an unfair comparison.

So I kept looking and found the same place where many of my friends from the old Digiforum days had gone - Reaper. In a single word Reaper is - incredible! Thats all I'll say about that because this is not about that. But it does explain why I have never really come back to RealBand. I have tried to return with each upgrade over the years and it just seems RB and me do not think the same way. There are the most simple things which I can not seem to figure out how to do in RB.

So there is no bad feelings at all. I wish RB and its users the best. BIAB works with Reaper as near to being s seamless VSTi, short of being a VSTi. So my love affair with BIAB continues - I don't forsee that ever changing. But Reaper has stolen me away from RB and there is no going back.

BIAB – 2025, Reaper (current), i7-12700F Processor, 32GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM, 1TB WD Black NVMe SSD, 2TB WDC Blue SSD, 1TB WD Blue, 2 TB SK NVMe, 6 TB External, Motu Audio Express 6x6