I think RB represents the fulfillment of many Band in a Box wishlist requests.

"Freezing of tracks" -- Typical of the PGMusic "outside the box" design methodology, instead of trying to incorporate that inside BiaB, or turn the autoaccompaniment program into a static multitrack sequencer, they took their already developed static sequencing program, PowerTracks, and added the BiaB autoaccompaniment generator to it. This does away with the BiaB "number of choruses" issue entirely, laying everything out as the BiaB "one long song" does, but with the new twist -- the first generation sticks and is visible in the tracks and can be easily edited.

"When I edit the Bass in BiaB, it changes when I hit play" -- A constant forum post from noobies, this one bites almost every new user. I know it got me at one time many moons past. You see the doggone notes, the notation editor in BiaB lets you change the doggone notes, then you hit Play and they disappear, being replaced with the auto-generated notes from the Style file. In RB, the first generation STICKS. Need to edit the bass line in order to get a particular riff, go ahead and do so (if its MIDI based, of course) and that's that.

BiaB is more oriented towards the realtime PLAYER. Someone who needs a backing band to practice with, or someone who needs a backing band in live performance but abhors static backing tracks playing the exact same thing every time.

RealBand is for RECORDISTS who want or need the advantage of automatic accompaniment for those critical "bed tracks".

Powertracks is for Recordists who don't want or need auto-accompaniment.

Just tools.

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