Originally Posted By: joe5
Unfamiliar w/this, trying to get there.....my interest is in recording only. A few questions:

- Are "sets" comparable to "stems?"
- What is/isn't edit-able in "sets?" For ex. can I replace a piano solo with another instrument, and/or delete it altogether?
- How easy/hard is it to use or integrate with a DAW?

Appreciate any info


1. no, well kinda...
2. I don't know... uhhh yeah.
3. real easy

regarding one and two... working with BB is more like jamming with friends than anything I can use to describe it. You can edit the chords and styles, and just about everything else. If you want to change something, you can. If you want to replace the bass with a different bass or the guitars with piano you can do that too. And yes, you can delete or mute.

Three... the cool thing is you can export the waves BB creates as wave files and import them into your favorite DAW.... so in that respect, yeah, I guess you can say they are comparable to stems.

But it gets better..... Let me describe how I work with this to create the music I write and produce.... have a listen to the songs on my music site to hear what I do.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=443134&content=music

I, and many others here, compose and write in BB. I get the song exactly like I want and then save it and close BB. I reopen the song in Real Band and it renders the tracks to the song I just created in BB as waves. Using RB's unique ability to render additional tracks, I add more tracks to the project. These could be piano solo tracks or mandolin tracks and save them all as well. Now, I export them from RB and import then into Sonar, the DAW I use. That's where I add my live guitar and piano and mandolin as well as all the vocals in the project. Final mixing and polishing gets done there and the audio editing if required also gets done in Sonar.

In addition.... although I don't use it this way..... BB will open in most DAW's as a VST so you can work right in the DAW from the start. It's possible to simply drag and drop the tracks as needed.

Hope this helps.

Listen to some of the music people are producing using BB/RB and their DAW..... it's quite an amazing tool.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 08/09/16 02:30 AM.
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