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You're assuming RealBand, as a DAW, is comparable to the others and IMHO it is not.



Okay. I have Sonar. My pal has Protools. When I sit down to his Protools, I can select a track, record piano, select another track, record bass, select another track, record guitar. That's what a Digital Audio Workstation does. I can do that here on Sonar, "that" being what a Digital Audio Workstation does. I can also do that here on Real Band, "that" again being what a Digital Audio Workstation does.

Now, you want to tweak? I can open up any of those three programs and use Ozone, or Sonifex, or Bob's Plugins, as long as they are a .dll file, and add reverb, EQ, phase, distortion, flanger.... I can use them with any of those three DAW programs. I have never found a plugin that didn't work once I registered the .dll properly. I have had them fail when I did it wrong.

Now again I ask, what is it that some other DAW does that RB doesn't outside of it being the one you are familiar with and PREFER to use? And when your answer is ___________________, then please tell me if that DAW program will generate drums, bass, piano, rhythm guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle..... so I don't have spend hours playing and replaying stuff to fix all the clams.

Every one of these discussions, and I see one every month or so, eventually boils down to "it's the one I have been using for the last 295 years". I have never really gotten a straight answer. Very few of us are writing scores for Miramax here and you can nitpick about miniscule things forever and never finish a song.

I have seen "this one" go on about Reaper, and "that one" about Protools, and yet "another one" about Logic, Sonar or Cubase, or whatever, but I never find one glaring shortcoming about RB that would stop the show. The gist of almost every one of those conversations is "I have been doing it this way since before there was electricity." Okay, I understand, but you know, you are allowed to break Thanksgiving tradition and serve prime rib instead of turkey, and you are allowed to try something new.

I would like to ask someone to compile a list of what these glaring shortcomings are in RB that would prevent someone from working. Notice I didn't say "would take you out of your comfort zone". So far all I have seen is the lack of ability to use Rewire. And to that I ask "What did you do before there WAS Rewire?"

/hacker hat on

I am now interested so tell me what you know isn't working and I will acquire it and test.

//hacker hat off

Of course there will be coding adjustment needed just like there was a coding change needed to address more than one physical out put, but unless someone gives them something more than "doesn't work", they can't fix it. And, as a bonus, they may be able to write their own version of something rather than make existing be compatible. The PG codemonkeys are really good at what they do. This is how products mature. Looking forward to playing with this.