Thanks Noel, that was really helpful. I thought Realband was just a 3rd rate DAW so I have ignored it in favour of my recent Studio One Pro purchase. But it sounds like I need Realband. Interesting that you mention you can try alternative Realtracks in Realband, I thought that was only something you do in BIAB. Also, interesting that you can highlight a track in Realband and regenerate just a part of it.

I recently did something similar to what you mentioned - create your own edits from various tracks. I wanted a line repeated 4x but BIAB would not play it four times in a row so I edited in CoolEdit Pro to create the track I wanted, took a while and quite time consuming though I thought.

My basic loose workflow has been

1. patiently find a RealTrack for a new song.
2. put the chords together and shape the song in BIAB
3. export tracks seperately in wav form.
4. Important tracks in Studio One and edit my song to suit.
5. Record my vocals & Guitar in my DAW.

Thanks.
Paul