Crossroads,

It appears few people are using RealBand as you describe. My thought is you might want to try multiple passes for each track.

During pass one the concentration might be on acquiring the best, most realistic midi to audio conversion possible. What does "best" mean in this example? Maybe it means an audio output with dynamics similar to what a human can produce. Maybe it means limited dynamic range like recording an instrument with a compressor insert on the track. It most likely will mean taking care of broad volume levels in midi. You'll have to define "best" but the goal is the best midi to audio conversion you can obtain so you don't have to do all the mixing in the audio domain. I'm thinking each midi instrument audio track should be a mono track since it is common to have mono instrument tracks. Even major tracks such as main vocal, lead guitar or sax solo typically begins life as a recorded audio track.

Once everything is rendered to audio then you can treat the song project as all audio. With most or all mono audio tracks, center all panning so you can work on volume levels and frequency separation. Get the best sounding mono mix you can. Once you have a good mono mix, then pan and start adding effects.

Try it.

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