Originally Posted By: eddie1261
Originally Posted By: JoanneCooper
Once you have your basic style, chords and tempo down then save as an mgu and open that in RealBand. You can then record your vocals, add tracks, mute tracks, add effects etc in RealBand.


See, there's the thing I don't know and it bothers me to think that when you open that mgu file in Real Band, it regenerates everything I just spent 2 hours getting right in BIAB. If the style choices are the same in both (are they?) and the Real Tracks are the same in both (are they?) and the Real Drums are the same in both (are they?) then it sounds kind of redundant to start in one and switch to the other. That only applies IF the styles and tracks are not the same in both. If BIAB is somehow more flexible than RB then it's worth a look.

This is why I say I will spend next week working with BIAB and see.

(Though this is the 4th time I installed the software as I got new computers and it now tells me my serial number has been used too many times.)


Eddie, it is not clear to me if you understand you can treat RB the same as every other DAW and open RB and import audio files that have been exported from BIAB rather than have to open a BIAB sgu or mgu file to get those tracks. You can also open a BIAB file to have use of the chord chart populated with the chords of your song, key, tempo and style but still have the ability to import, access and use of the exact copies of the tracks you created in BIAB. It's not a choice of either/or it can one or the other and it can even be both.

BIAB 2025:RB 2025, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.