Originally Posted By: joe5
Thanks very much for the replies. I didn't realize RB was a DAW. I wish they'd just say that on the site. smile I'm sure I'll have more questions....this could be a huge help to me though. I was NOT looking forward to having to create percussion, rhythm sections (etc etc) note by note on a synth. This could be a huge help to get past that hurdle.


RB is, IMHO a very basic DAW which is why I continue to use Sonar. If you don't have a DAW RB will work quite well. Like any DAW, you need to spend time with it to understand what it can and cannot do.

I absolutely detested trying to create drum tracks and even the other tracks for instruments I didn't play, using a synth. The drum tracks always sounded so dry and boring and not at all real even though I had good sounding samples. The real drum tracks in BB/RB ended all that. I haven't had to create a drum track now in a very long time and I don't miss it one bit.

A friend of mine and I were speaking last night on the phone.... catching up on the past few years. Talk got around to music and recording since he too is a musician. He was wanting to set up a studio and eventually we got talking about BB/RB. He couldn't seem to understand the concept of how BB worked and kept insisting he would need to learn how to program drum tracks and use a click track.... and I kept telling him no he didn't have to go that route.

I think he finally took my word and I invited him to come and see how it works in real time.

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