Sly you remind me off a guy of the street that walks into a dealership and buys a $100,000 race car, to take his driving test.

I mean absolutely no disrespect, but i think you are so far ahead of yourself you don't left from right. This is why i advised you to slow down in the beginning. You have $1,500 worth of gear and no experience in how it works, what it does, and where to take it.

I suggest you take a breath, and try to work through how all this goes together. Realband is a very complex creature, but when setup properly it is rock solid. I will say it is a tad more glitchey that a typical DAW, because of all that it does. I give as an example of "Solidrocks" post recently he was having difficulty with the long delay between getting the audio loop window to open, and being able to select a loop and place it. He was right it does take a long time to do this. Peter explained that RB has to access and open the BiaB engine, and it take a few moments. When you access a loop in say Sony's acid loop access and time stretch is all that it does, and all it was built for, so that is it's prime objective. With RB it time/tempo stretches loops, Realtracks, real drums, and audio opens the BiaB engine to do generation of all of this.

Learn the basics before you launch into a full assault of a project. Start with this, what is your setting on your ASIO device? sample rate, etc. How are you setting up to record? When you open the options window what inputs are selected? I suggest a simple start. Your Roland device is complicated. Get help from Roland to set it up, Call PG and have a tech walk you through the setup of the sound inputs and such, sample and bit rates, and such.

We all want you to be successful believe me, but you have to do the work to get the results. My gosh, the hours i put into this testing, tweaking, reading, learning, asking question, failing, re-trying. Losing a file, Re-recording a file. ASking more questions, reading more information watching videos, cursing the screen. You get it.

You try to record, and have issues, and want to toss your hands up and jump to another DAW, trust me if you can't tame RB, other DAWs will be a problem as well. They may behave on the simple stuff, but wait till you have a 25 track count song going, with a gazzillion effects and busses and the other DAW takes a dump on you and you lose a whole song with countless hours of work. Guess what? it happens all the time, read the forums, and learn. But do not buy the propaganda, or drink the cool aid all DAWs will break your heart a few times. Get your setup right and keep it simple at first.

I have had Reaper crash during a session, Sonar crashed and dumped the whole project, RB has screwed me a time or two, they all do. Every one of them has a bug or three, it is the bain of software. anyway get on line or the phone today and get help with PG to get RB working properly , and by all means slow down a tad, get it right now and it will get a lot easier later.

Last edited by Robh; 12/31/13 11:08 AM.
HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB 2025, Realband, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 9 32c , Melodyne 5 editor, Presonus Audiobox 1818VSL, Presonus control app.