Originally Posted By: cxp
Exactly. For years people have requested DAW type functions in BIAB, but BIAB is NOT a DAW. However, when PG Music made Realband capable of opening BIAB files and included it for FREE with the purchase of BIAB, it answered all those needs. Problem solved.

People often ask “What is the difference between BIAB and Realband?”. The answer is nothing – they work together to provide complete capability.

Sometimes I think this would be better understood if there were a tab within BIAB labeled “Additional Tracks and Total control”. When the user clicked on that tab up would pop Realband!


BIAB has had DAW type functions for years. Landr states; "Landr defines a DAW as follows; "A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a software program used for composing, producing, recording, mixing and editing audio and MIDI. DAWs facilitate mixing of multiple sound sources on a time-based grid. There are lots of different DAWs out there, each with different strengths and weaknesses."

I've found that composing, producing, recording, mixing and editing of audio and MIDI within BIAB software program to be roughly on par with modern hardware digital multi track recorders. I consider BIAB to be a functional but not full featured DAW.

I agree that RealBand was developed and integrated With BIAB to more easily, intuitively and capably do the more advanced editing tasks than what BIAB does. So yes, it answers all those needs and problem solved.

BIAB 2025:RB 2025, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.