2b, you have several threads going and most mention RB. I may have missed some things but you kept talking about things like you can't get VST's to load and other issues. I just revisited your thread in the RB forum concerning that VST issue and it ended on 10/28 with no further input from you saying if you figured that out or not.

Now you're asking about other DAW's and making comments about other DAW's doing things RB can't. Respectfully, you don't know enough to make that statement. You also also seem confused by some basic Windows operations. Obviously I could be wrong, this is just a forum and I'm not a mind reader but you need to be very proficient with Windows before you go jumping into something as complex as digital audio. You need to be the guy friends and relatives come to with their Window's problems.

As an outside observer my advice is to settle down and learn what you have which is Biab and RB. There are people here who have used Power Tracks and then RB for years and never use another DAW. Despite what some here will say, RB is a perfectly competent DAW. I'll repeat that Real Band is as much a DAW as any other name you've read about. Stay with it and learn it before flying around from one thing to another. VST's work perfectly well in RB, you just can't seem to understand instructions and I think I know why, it's because of the tech jargon. That cannot be avoided because a DAW is replicating what goes on in a real multi million dollar recording studio. Like every other specialty out there, studios have their own language. Earlier in your computer using experience were you confused by printer jargon like Landscape, Portrait, a Print Cue and stuff like that? It's because your computer print function is using the terms used by professional print shops. Exactly the same things as a DAW using the jargon of studios. You have to learn those terms and understand them. Trying to just jump in and make it work without that basic background is just crusin for a brusin, ya know?

This stuff takes time and patience, I know you probably don't believe me but you have more tools right now than you can learn in the next year. Or two. Or three. It's all there right in front of you with Real Band. The basic principles are the same from one DAW to another. If you can't figure out RB then good luck with the others too. RB is known as one of the easier ones to learn for a nooby.

Please understand I'm not talking down or making fun or any of that. 15 years ago I was in the exact same position. I knew less than squat about any of this and was a total lost soul but I gradually got it. It's like anything else it's easy once you know it, haha.

Bob


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