Originally Posted By: bob mccormack
Hi All,

Is it my imagination or is the sound quality in Realband better than BIAB. I loaded a song from BIAB and it sounded better in REALBAND, am I nuts or is my hearing going.

Bob


Yes it is very possible for Real Band to sound different and often better than BiaB on the same song file.

In BB, many of the tracks will be rendered from midi using the default synth. When you open the same project in Real Band, where it is possible to do so, it will render those tracks from the real tracks audio files which are sampled instruments, not midi synth generated sounds.

It is for this reason that I try to work with styles that use real tracks in them in BB because it will render from the sampled instruments in this case. The result being a BB file that doesn't sound quite as midi as it might otherwise have been.

When loading that file and opening it in Real Band, it will cause a totally new rendering of those tracks unless you have frozen them. So even if you have a song in BB using the real tracks entirely, when you open it in RB, it creates all new tracks.

If you are used to hearing it in BB one way, as you worked on it there, and now you open it in RB, and RB rendered new tracks, yes, it will sound different. It's often a surprise to me when I render the tracks to a song in Real Band. Mainly because I have gotten used to the way BB was playing the song.... intro, verses, choruses, etc.... Since RB renders from scratch, what I get there is often a pleasant surprise. If I don't like it, I simply select the track, delete it and have it render that same track again. And it never fails to generate something totally new in the process.

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