Mike, I'm not really into the RealBand vs Biab debate but I do get your analogy of putting the bed in the kitchen and it is a great example of my earlier point that the issue is really more about personal preference than functionality. It's easy to see the bed never changes its functionality being moved into the kitchen and adds nothing to the functions of a kitchen, it's a personal preference to not have to walk from the bedroom to the kitchen at night. It's a workflow thing. But there's always compromises isn't there. Moving the bed to the kitchen may double the time and distance getting to the bathroom. My perception of switching back and forth between BIAB and RB for 'quick' edits is no more logical than writing sentences in Notepad and transferring each sentence as I write it over to Word to punctuate it and then return to Notepad for the next sentence. That interrupts my train of thought and would cause me to lose focus with my project.

An example many give they use RealBand to open a BIAB project and begin to open and audition various RealTracks for their song. This is very easy to do quickly in BIAB. Especially if I'm experimenting or structuring a song and want to audition different instruments and I've not progressed so far into a project I know the layout and instrumentation finalized. The functionality of BIAB to allow up to 10 instrument variations per channel is much faster and convenient way to audition instruments and not have to lose time and focus to swap between programs until you are ready to actually build your song.

Functionally, changing your workflow in BIAB can drastically change how you construct a project and expose you to features that easily allow you to structure your song, build your instrumentation, choose styles all in such a way to make it so you can eliminate RealBand, Sonar or any other external software you may now use.

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.