Thanks for the advice, seeker! I chatted online today with PG customer service and they've been nothing short of helpful. Based on my research and what you/they are telling me, I'm leaning toward purchasing BIAB/RealBand. For the orchestral/band arrangements that I do, I can see myself using it to work out ideas. Then, if I want to expand it into a proper score, I'll do that in outside software and bring it back into RealBand to tweak the output.

I'm really excited about getting involved in the PG Music forum community. Nowadays, this sort of thing is a rarity. I look forward to learning software techniques from the people here and sharing my music. I'm a Chicago-based professional trumpet player, so I will likely use it for trumpet backing tracks as well.



Last edited by markmusik; 05/10/14 08:24 PM.