Bob, you made some excellent points and I agree with almost all of them. I especially agree with the digital bits are digital bits, PG plugins, your car analogy and your basic sound quality. Realband's sound quality is equal to any high priced DAW. IMHO Realband is far superior to any other DAW in its price range. And as you know I am not a Realband power user and in fact I very rarely use it.

The only points that I want to make are that as you said it depends on what you are recording. I use multiple large sample sets and I never go over 30 tracks; most of my tracks are in the 18-20 range, like you posted. The difference is my MIDI sound sources like Kontakt and Play can have huge sample sets. Plus for instance I like my 1st violins, 2nd violins, other strings, brass (both orchestra and jazz/rock), drums etc on separate tracks. Each track can contain a different large sample set. I know that I can do this in RB but I would have to use jBridge (a work around for not going 64 bit IMO).

I think most other DAW users, like myself, are very comfortable with their DAW. I can work very rapidly in Sonar where I would have to keep looking stuff up in order to use RB. Habits can be a bad thing I guess.

If you work with RTs, live recording, and occasionally add a MIDI track and/or have never used a DAW then RB perfect for you. If you record like I do with large sample sets and are very familiar with your current DAW then RB may not be for you.

PS - an after thought - Are those people whom want RB to be like the high priced DAWs are they willing to pay the same price for it? I doubt it.

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