Thanks again, to all ... my RB vision is about 20/60 right now, but I've learned enough to be intrigued. Probably off to the RB optometrist shortly.

FWIW, Bob. I got the idea about the conversion of a BIAB song (not a midi file) to audio, because in the online video it shows importing a BIAB file and watching it turn into audio. They just show it happening and don't make any comment about whether or not that's an option.

I've learned a lot ... even if my question took me far afield ... and I appreciate it.

Having fairly thorughly learned Acid Pro 6, Abelton Live 6, Reaper and Cubase, the bad news is the mind is boogled. The good news is that it becomes pretty easy to learn a new one when you understand what functions are supposed to be there. So, when inspiration beckons I'll get around to giving RB a whirl.

I will say that after 7 years of mucking about, and with all due respect and no desire to flame anything, I can't imagine anything surpassing Cubase for functionality, stability, VST suport and ASIO compatibility. Given that I have fairly high end sound cards, an echo indigo and/ or echo layla 24 on a cardbus on my laptop and an RME Multiface II in the studio, and including trying with ASIO4All, that I have been totally unable to run BIAB under ASIO on either one (as I've posted elsewhere here looking for help) I already cringe at the thought of getting deep into RB with a big project and coming upon a stonewall or crash. So I'm content to roll out the MME drivers to do the midi work in BIAB ... and maybe some similar 'cherry pickin' with RB. As Mac said in my thread about ASIO issues, "Well, it works for me." But, sadly, not for me.

Regards to all.

Prado