"RealBand is not a great DAW!" arguement. To be blunt again, I saw that one coming a mile away!
cause you know it is true?

Name a single mainstream DAW that has not undergone upgrades, rewrites and enhancements...Realband is getting better too.
not fast enough for me and the thousand of others who use more modern DAWs!
Heaven is always just a sin away. The imagination much brighter than the reality.
Is that any reason not to dream and aim high?
And the reality is that for many, the VSTi version may not be any more stable than RealBand is now.
Well that would be a real concern if I were PG. I have used dozens of plugins in several DAWs and for the most part they work quite well. The market would certainly not accept a RealTracks VSTi that is not stable.
My main point in suggesting a VSTi is to build on what PG has done best! Namely, RealTracks and the way they create them, time-stretch them, transpose them, integrate them into my chord progressions, etc. That is nothing short of BRILLIANT! It is far more brilliant than any DAW on the market that I have seen. It is far more brilliant than any VSTi I have used so far!
In their RealTracks, PG has something truly amazing that would set the music world on fire when compared to sample libraries where I still have to play the parts entirely! But they need a way to get this brilliance into the hands of people making music and I honestly believe yearly patches to the current GUI will never do that! On the other hand, a new VSTi version of RealTracks would be the product of the year or maybe the decade!