The main thing here is to look at what Ableton ISN"T.

Here's an analogy. When you watch an NHL game, in 5 minutes you forget that you are watching the greatest skaters in the world, because the hitting, passing, shooting and all make the skating subliminal.

What gets lost in Real Band is the song generation. Once the song generation is done, that part of the game (the skating) becomes subliminal.

And that's what Ableton doesn't do. "Skate." Ableton doesn't generate complete backing tracks. The DAW in Real Band is there mainly as a convenience and a value add to the song generation program. It was really never meant to be "Pro Tools Lite" or anything. Remember, you don't pay extra for it. It's just there. Using the drop feature, where you just rag each track to your DAW of choice, you are pretty much done with Real Band when the generating is done.