A little mustard after the meal as they say over here.

Regarding VST plugins: Today my work routine in song construction & composing is that basically i would start a song or idea by having a melody put into BIAB with some chords and mess with song construction. Then try some styles, and if i found something useful there and to my liking, i export RT wavs and the eventually present MIDI to Cubase. BTW the BIAB live drums do sound great at times as they are, but mostly unusable for a final mix IMO because of reverb present in the live drum tracks coming from BIAB (even with export set to "dry" etc). So in Cubase i replace them mostly with EZdrummer or maybe Groove Agent, and do a lot of editing to boot. My biggest nag with this way of working is that it eats tons of time, especially when you change the arrangement later, and have to go back to BIAB and redo a lot of exports.

Sometimes the RT-wavs are not generated correctly with an occasional wrong chord, and also when you use 2/4 bars inserted in a basically 4/4 song. Occasionally stop/hold files are not correct or missing. Workaround: at times i generate separate chords, stops and holds in a separate BIAB "song" and add/edit them in Cubase. PS i am not too fond of Realband BTW, slowish rendering and cumbersome shifting of audio file positions compared to Cubase, and less control in regards to timing and WAV mutilation. But the BIAB exported results are sometimes worth all this mayhem LoL.

Besides all that: I stopped complaining about the impossibility to slave BIAB to an external midi clock or even MTC signal years ago. IMO a real miss ... - F