Stefan, this is the Biab forum and many prefer to use Biab and either forget or have never tried Real Band. RB is far better at working with midi files than Biab is. Just open RB to a new song and open your midi. It will automatically open to individual tracks that you see displayed right in front of you. You can manipulate each track any way you like plus since RB has 48 tracks and most midi files have a max of 16 tracks, you have plenty of blank tracks to generate RT's, create multiple takes of the same part, cut/paste parts, move them around, all that fun DAW stuff yet you still have the same chord grid and can use all the Biab generating functions.

I've had Studio One for years, Reaper, Cakewalk but keep using RB because while it's not as elegant and full featured as the other DAW's it's very easy to use and does everything I need precisely because it's a blend of a DAW and Biab together. That is very powerful. To really sound blasphemous here, I still don't see the reason or need for the plugin other than marketing. Just the word plugin sounds great to many people. Biab now can be used as a plugin! Ok, wonderful but we've had RB for years and it does everything the plugin does but more and better. It's taken what, three years for it to finally become usable? They could have used those resources to expand Real Band but that's another very long thread that happened some years ago.

I've realized that I'm never going to be a high level Hollywood music producer in spite of my fantasies and don't need all the extreme fine tuning functions you have in the big name DAW's.

I see I managed to throw in another rant about the plugin. Just check out RB, you'll like it once you get familiar with it, I promise.

Bob

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