yeah you made a great choice with Reaper! I have tried on several occasions to use Realband and it is so quirky and archaic in the way things are done I get very frustrated very fast. Reaper is state-of-the-art in both its functionality and its design so you will not only be able to accomplish everything you wish but you will enjoy using the software!

my work flow on songs where I use BIAB is now like this,

1) BIAB to get the basic song written
I often use Realtracks only (but lately I have had great success in using MIDI and then bringing those MIDI tracks into Reaper for use with Kontakt 5)

2) set all tracks to center pan, remove all reverb, set all to same volume and export them as separate mono normalized WAV files

3) bring all tracks into Reaper and mix, edit, apply VSTs, etc.

4) master in Reaper

If I do not get the tracks I want sometimes I will save the song with another name (SONG-2) and change the Realtracks before I do steps 2-4 above.

In rare cases where I cannot seem to get what I want I will open my song in Realband and try to get something better there. But the only reason I would resort to this is for the bar-by-bar Realtrack regeneration feature that Realband has; if they added this feature to BIAB I would never use Realband!

Last edited by JohnJohnJohn; 07/26/14 09:11 PM.