The answer depends somewhat on how you think.

If you think about a song in parts, in other words song structure, then Band-in-a-Box likely better works the way you think. Band-in-a-Box has a feature that lets you assign bars to a block and you can rearrange a song by moving blocks instead of bars.

If you think about a song in a linear fashion, RealBand likely works the way you think since RealBand follows a timeline from beginning to end.


Jim Fogle - 2025 BiaB (Build 1128) RB (Build 5) - Ultra+ PAK
DAWs: Cakewalk Sonar - Standalone: Zoom MRS-8
Laptop: i3 Win 10, 8GB ram 500GB HDD
Desktop: i7 Win 11, 12GB ram 256GB SSD, 4 TB HDD
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