If you have a good midi soft synth or a quality external unit, you will likely be satisfied with a mixture of midi and RealTracks. Notes Norton site has quality midi styles including some for Beatle songs. Midi files of Beatle songs done by DW Barnes (some are also listed as Darrel Barnes) are also quality midi files.

Unless specific riffs are required for authenticity, drums, piano, rhythm guitars, strings and pads are good candidates to replace midi instruments with RealTracks. If a riff only occurs in a specific part of a song or only occasionally, you can do the riff with a midi instrument and mute the RealTrack during the portion of the riff and then bring the Realtrack back up after the riff.

Norton styles play musically and do not sound programmed so they work particularly well with this method.

Recording a live instrument along with the other tracks adds to the realism and authenticity of the song.

It's easier to work with midi files in RealBand than it is in BIAB...

It's even easier to combine RealTracks and midi in RealBand than working solely in BIAB.

Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 03/20/16 11:53 AM.
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