RealBand is a free program by PG Music bundled with Band-in-a-Box. It reads the song files produced by BIAB. No other DAW to my knowledge does that directly; you have to transfer the audio or MIDI tracks to the DAW. RealBand allows you to regenerate part of a track, something that I believe does not yet exist in BIAB.

The commercial DAWS out there like Ableton Live have more features (and thus are far more complex). Many have their own instrument sound libraries, and differ in the plugins available.

Many of us here use BIAB, RealBand, a different DAW, a stereo sound editor, a CD burning program, a music notation editor, etc. in the production of a song.


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