Originally Posted By: VideoTrack
I've never had a problem with RB interface being old, clunky, or being slow to load songs, so I wonder if this is related to the computer that it's being used on, or the methods that are being used?

I am using a state-of-the-art computer and when using more modern software, like Reaper 5 or the latest Photoshop CC, everything works beautifully! The interface on most of my software is smooth as silk with scrolling and other window tasks working flawlessly.

Then I load up RealBand, load a BIAB song and...wait. After it finally loads I start noticing problems.

Even though the song was frozen in BIAB, some sections are not playing the same riffs on the RealTracks!

And then I notice that my BIAB bar settings are ignored by RB so that work was for naught!

And when I try to scroll using the mouse scroll wheel it is...well it is just a joke! Scroll a little and then wait a little for it to catch up! I assume this is simply not programmed correctly because, as I said, my modern software all works fine with the scroll wheel.

Then I notice idiosyncrasies in the GUI that are just painful to have to slog through. I click inside the style field and the whole thing locks up and Windows reports it has crashed but if I give it about 30 seconds it will hide RealBand main window and then pop up a windowed titled "Select Style Prototype Style=stylefilename". The whole interface is just as odd and eccentric as BIAB but, unfortunately, the two are not even very similar!

So, I totally stand by my comment that RealBand is totally inadequate as a DAW with a very old and clunky interface! And regarding your comment that "there in no other DAW on this planet that can do what RealBand does" that is only true relative to the single function of generating RealTracks. Other than that single function RB, could never succeed as a modern DAW.

As others have advised here, I avoid RB unless I need to use it just to generate RealTrack options I cannot get in BIAB. Then I always move to a real DAW for my mixing/mastering.