"Many of the things you mention are either BIAB features, not RB, or are things pretty much all DAWs have, near as I can tell...PS I give up, what are "real styles?" I didn't see it mentioned on the site anywhere."

No. They are RB features. You do not have to open BIAB or a VST to use them. They are RB features resulting from direct integration with BIAB and they are unique from other DAW's in that respect.

Follow JohnJohnJohn's comments. He started with generating tracks being the only feature to use RB. That prompted my response.


JohnJohnJohn responded to my post with "The fact remains that its ONLY strengths are in its relation to the flagship product." which is similar to your remarks.

I admit that I find that to be a bit of an odd criticism. RB is a DAW designed to integrate and work in close relation with a flagship product. Every BIAB feature you find in RB is a RB feature by design.

Why is it odd? Because if you browse through the BIAB wishlist, you will find requests for RB DAW features, RB generating abilities, multiriff and a host of other RB features to be integrated into BIAB when all of these things already exist in RB.

There is a laundry list of reasons given not to use RB and to each his own. I have Studio One v3 Pro and paid quite a bit of money for but only fire it up when I have need to mix with the Faderport Controller. It is designed to work seamlessly with my Presonus interfaces and faderport but I find more value to my workflow using the 'only strengths' of RB's integration with BIAB features.

Regarding RealStyles. RealStyles are RealTrack, or RealTrack/midi combos, or RealTrack/midi/Supermidi combos, Realtrack/loops/usertrack combos put together by PGMusic in combos of instrument and tracks to play in a genre or fashion of music so we, the end user, do not have to create our own.

The newly released XTRA Styles are simply RealStyles that use some of the latest available RealTracks. But according to a PGMusic post, around 300 manhours went into creating 164 tracks. My BIAB/RB has over 4900 style combos. That is thousands of man hours to put together. RealStyles are a big time saver when we create accompaniment tracks.

Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 08/12/16 01:37 AM.
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