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The bassplayer even said he played more relaxed now 'cause BiaB sticks to the gameplay no matter what anyone in the band does.



This will put some pressure on your guy when he comes back. Playing to a good drum track will tighten the whole band up but if he can't keep it solid when he returns, the rest of you will definitely notice it. Especially the bass player.
You mentioned wanting to use a regular drum kit track with a percussion track. This is the first thing I did during the original Real Band beta test. It took all of one minute. You right click on any empty track, highlight "create a RD track" and voila, done. It follows the chord chart part markers just like Biab does, then do the same for another empty track and do the percussion. After a while you realize this is so easy, you might as well create 4 or 5 drum tracks and start playing with mixing and matching different parts of each one until you hit something you like. This can be midi drums too using a Biab style. Typically, I will mess around with several RD's and several midi drum tracks using different styles. I use Jamstix for the midi drum sound module, it sounds so good it blends right in with a RD track. At first I was focused on just one track and if I didn't like it, I would erase it and create another but there's all those empty tracks staring at you from the screen, just use them. If you're familiar with PT 12 and Biab, you should have no problem at all with RB. Obviously, everyone has they're own way of working but imho, once you're familiar with RB, you'll never use Biab for something like this.

Bob

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