I've been looking at all the online videos of the new Cubase 7, Abelton Live 9, Digital Perfomer 8, Pro Tools 11 and Sonar X2. The average user on this forum has no idea what these programs are truly capable of until they spend some serious time watching those vids. I am amazed by what they can do. It's all too easy to simply say RB does everything you need when you don't really know what you "need" until you become aware of what's available from watching these vids and develop a feel for how some of these things would help you. I've seen things I never thought of but once I saw it I can see the value such as Digital Performers Comp Tracks feature or Live 9's very hot new audio to midi conversion feature. There's some very cool stuff going on out there guys but you have to open your eyes to see it.

Real Band is free to most users while the big name DAW's are around $400-600. Given the price point it's unreasonable to try to make RB even remotely competitive with those programs but I completely agree a few seemingly basic enhancements would help a lot especially the VST/Jamstix thing. A big one is hardware control and another one is current ASIO support. We have to tell people occasionaly when they get a message saying another program is using the ASIO driver to close WMP or Biab or whatever because ASIO is a one trick pony. The problem is that's not true, ASIO 2.0 came out 3-4 years ago that allows for multiple hosts using it and now they just released ASIO 3. People using these other DAW's don't have that issue because they're all ASIO 2.0 compliant.

Without revamping the whole program, just these small fixes would help in keeping it current. Of course I say small, it could be these things are not small at all from a coding standpoint. As it is, being able to open Biab files and generate RT/RD's is huge for RB and will make it worthwhile using for a long time.

Bob

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