Hi Hugh,

From what I understand of your question, it would be worth your while playing around with Realband. It's not that difficult to use and the tutorial video is excellent. Here is the link for the tutorial video.

I use BIAB and RB in tandem in the following way.
  • Create a song in BIAB (that is, find a style, set a chord progression, etc.).
  • Take a note of the panning and volume for each instrument in BIAB.
  • Save the song and then open up the BIAB file in RB. (It could take a while to open the file because RB immediately generates the tracks.)
  • In the TRACKS VIEW, left click on the panning slider of each instrument and set the panning that was in BIAB. Do the same for volume using the volume sliders. The RB file should now sound like it did in BIAB. (Note: RB does not read the BIAB instrument setting. These need manually setting. It only takes 5 mins maximum.)
  • Save the song as an RB SEQ file.

Now that the file is in RB, it's very easy to record MIDI or audio tracks and save the tracks to a single rendered wav file or individual wav files.

Good luck,
Noel

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