Thanks guitar hacker, never heard of the waves bit but will give that a go. Have come across Reaper and at least they have a very intense video tutorial so enjoying sitting through those and actually learning.

Will an "export" of BiaB music file (wave or MP3) take tracks over so each one can be edited in Audacity or Reaper or will it come across as a single (combined) file? Guess I'll know when I try but still waiting for the postman.
I am lost at the moment with what "codec" is and installed LAME but don't know where it's gone and what it's going to do. Still working on it.
When I am actually constructing a backing track to export, I am assuming I have to type in the whole song with "x" amount of bars rather than as in the video tutorials where you say to repeat this verse and chorus etc. I am not expecting a DAW to recognise any of those commands.
Thanks

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