2bSolo,

Regarding RealBand, there are some steps you can take that will let the program work better. Some you may already know but I haven't seen them mentioned in other threads so the ideas maybe new to you.

RealBand (RB) handles RealTracks differently than Band-in-a-Box (BiaB). BiaB generates the first few seconds of the RealTracks in a song project then begins playback. The rest of each RealTracks is generated as a background task while the song project continues to be played. RB will not start until all of each RealTracks is generated so the time that it takes for playback to begin is much longer when compared to BiaB.

RB stores audio edits in memory. Each audio edit is treated as a separate audio file so the more you edit, the more audio files RB has to manage and the higher the probability the program will glitch or crash. Two ways to reduce the probability of a glitch or crash are to:
1) frequently save your work, once every five to ten minutes doesn't hurt and
2) use the Consolidate Audio feature. This description is from page 236 of the RB Users Manual and explains how the feature works.
Quote:
Use the Consolidate Audio Region feature when you are working with WAV (digital audio) files to recreate a track or region as one contiguous file. While not always necessary, this is especially useful in situations where you have performed many edits (e.g., Cut/Copy/Paste) and the resulting track has been broken up into many smaller wave “chunks” that may cause audio glitches and/or timing errors as your computer has to work harder to open and close the many small files. The “consolidate” feature effectively serves to “stitch together” these smaller files into one big file. The non-real time audio effects work better with consolidated tracks, if these effects are returning error messages the problem is often corrected by applying this feature. This command will offer the option to include silence when consolidating from the start of the song and tracks(s) don't start at the very beginning


Frequently following these two steps greatly reduced crashes for me. I believe they will for you too.

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