PG Music Home Forums General Discussion Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production ADVANTAGES OF REALBAND OVER PG's COMPETITION.

JohnJohnJohn/rayc and other users.

when i started this thread i wondered if there would be people who questioned me re rb.
the shame of it is that users new to pg seeing your posts now might not bother opening up rb.
thus i feel missing some very nice features.
(i'll get to reaper, as i'm a long time avid user/early adopter (v0.99) after haveing addressed rb. )

so heres my REPLY re rb.
(firstly let me preface my reply by saying i have no idea of the internal codeing of rb.)
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1. reasons for sluggishness might vary. i respectfully suggest that running rb on an optimised pc or one purpose built for recording studios that never sees the net , with high speed processors like ryzens/threadrippers rated on cpubenchmarket.net at 20,000 (and useing high speed nvme or m.2 ssd's) is going to be different probably than say a slow one drive laptop whose processor is rated on cpubenchmark.net at 3,000.
maybe rharv, who is the rb guru imho can comment on how his ryzen performs with rb.
user Bob upthread is obviously happy with rb.

2. if anyone had read my past rb wishlists i had suggested, to speed things up, to have an option
to turn off waveform draws when genning traks from RT's etc. i suspected on slower pc's genning lots of traks from RT's AT THE SAME TIME might be an issue.
overall i feel, if one is running an older pc thats at the same time running other non rb tasks in the background...this might make an impact.

EVEN GIVEN THE ABOVE, i still feel that rb has a lot of nice features, and very unique features that merit a new user at least trying it out. as i said unique features its daw competitors dont have.
even higher priced daws costing large money.
(its interesting that pipeline set up an rb site on the web nice stuff pipeline/respect.)

yes rb has some quirks, but what doesnt ?
youll see on various daw users forums users complain about lots of their daws various aspects..
which brings me nicely to talk about REAPER.
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as far as i understand it, how reaps came about was the developer looked at the daw offerings at the time, and said i can do better. i was an early adoptor, with many others at v0.99. a very early release. many big studio buds ridiculed me and said "it'll never last" etc etc.
i feel vindicated.

full disclosure...us early adoptors like myself were makeing all sorts of suggestions way way back to the dev.
it was obvious that lots of people werent happy with their music software at that time.
the one i'm kicking myself i didnt suggest was the folder concept. brilliant.
anyhoo ive been a user ever since. its brilliant at what it does.

but it must be understood that people who say that other daws are more nimble/less sluggish than rb...the other daws dont have the auto accompany feature which i suspect is not trivial such programming.
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in conclusion i avidly use both reaps and rb, depending on my need for a feature as well as biab.
if anyone has seen my crazy songs in the showcase youll see in the description that on all of them i used the biab/rb/reaps combo. whether the songs are any good, i'll let others be the judge of that.

but those 3 products have been used now on 90 original songs, and its been a fun time useing all 3 over many years. note i would post more songs, but ive decided to trickle them out every few months as i'm sensitive to the fact that lots of my fellow users post songs.

and let me say ive heard songs on the showcase from my fellow users way better than what i often hear in the top 100. i think the showcase is a lovely friendly collegial forum. and kudos to pg for hosting it.

best to all, over and out, and whatever your tools...just go make some songs. i'll continue to use the biab/rb/reaps combo.

om