Joe, If you do not have a DAW and/or never used a DAW RealBand is all you need.

Many of us have been using DAWs for years before RB came into existence thus we are very familiar with them. Most of us do not use RB or use it as a second DAW. That is use RB for what it is excels in them move the project over to another DAW.

Then many others here only use RB. The bottom line is you can not tell what DAW, if any, was used as you listen to a CD, MP3 or record.

My advice is if you don't already use a DAW learn RB, and I mean learn everything about it. You just might find that it does everything you need, as many here have found.

Good luck.

Ps - I should add that those of us using other DAWs started out with a DAW similar to or much less powerful than RB. The things that RB can do was not available to the high priced DAWs we used 10 years ago! Also what you can do in RB today would cost thousands of dollars to do just 20-25 years ago!

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