I think floyd nailed it re RTs. The only thing I'd emphasize is that, at least for me and my musical interests, I often have to cut and paste multiple generations of RTs to get what I want - even rhythm tracks - in order to, well, stay on track.
Absolutely.... if I'm putting a song together, everything Floyd mentioned, and what you are saying .... well almost everything, is what I do. I listen to a track, if it works, I keep it, if not, I delete it and try again or move on in a different direction.
In my latest song..."world".... I deleted 3 piano tracks and a fiddle track and several others that simply didn't work close enough to my plans. I rendered a 4th piano and it worked well enough to keep it. The fiddle got deleted, and I probably should have deleted the cello too, but I simply pulled the levels low on it and the string section.
Working with BB/RB, currently there is no way for you to have it create exactly what you hear in your head, so we are, by default, forced to choose other paths as the writing process continues. "riding the wave" .... Unlike a live player with a piano or a guitar or bagpipes for that matter, we can not force RT to play exactly what we want..... at least, not yet.
That is not to say that we can't get a very usable output from RT. I've used this example before, on the song The Best Christmas....I rendered the piano 3 different times, and the lead guitar 5 different times. All 8 tracks for those 2 instruments are in the mix. I used a common bus with EQ and verb, and compression in it, with the individual tracks enveloped as needed to play the fills and the solo. As a result, I was able to get pretty much everything I needed.... perhaps not exactly what I wanted, but what I needed to get the song done to a high level of satisfaction.
some thoughts....
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