Originally Posted By: sixchannel
Can you understand now why people like me who don't WANT to be midi and/or RB Technofiles don't use RB and bale out to a normal DAW using wavs ex-BiaB?
Seriusly cheesed off


RB is complex, it does a lot of things that are unexpected because folks think it's just another "normal" DAW but it's way more than that. As has been explained, those midi files are a FEATURE of the program and all you do is check a box if you don't want them. You really must read the manual and help files and watch the videos.

Still, the simplest way to use RB is to not import a Biab file. For me I never do that, just begin your song in RB. It works just like Biab when you do that without all the confusion. That whole "Make Biab tracks regular tracks" continually confuses noobies so by starting the song in RB in the first place avoids that.

Start with the chord grid and enter your chords. Then pick a style and generate. The big difference between Biab and RB is the Generate drop down menu in RB. You can tell it to generate ALL BB tracks or one at a time. If you want to do one track at a time which I use a lot, then start at the track level by highlighting one track, right click in the track then pick Generate.

If you tell RB to generate all the BB tracks at once it seems to do it much slower that Biab does. That's only because Biab was given the ability to start playback BEFORE the tracks finished generating. One good way to lock up Biab is to stop playback after just a few seconds and then immediately hit play again. It's not really locked up, you just forced it to interrupt one generation and start over. RB has to finish generating all the tracks before you hear anything so it's usually better to work with one track at a time like you would be doing anyway in any other DAW.

RB does so many different things that you have full control over that it can get confusing and yes frustrating if you don't understand it.

EDIT

I remembered I had seen a vid about this and did a YouTube search. The vid is about using the BB Plugin in RB but as he says you don't need to do that because it can all be done natively inside RB itself but if you want the plugin you can use it. The last third shows how to start a song from scratch in RB basically like I described above.



Bob

Last edited by jazzmammal; 11/09/19 09:21 AM.
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