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As you can see in the "studio photo page", our current recording set up is two Roland VS2480 and one Alesis HD24. This basically does the job of Real Band. I also use Ableton and Sonar on my computer.



Those very nice devices and programs don't do the job of Real Band. Now, maybe you do really understand my point earlier and if so, my apologies for beating that dead horse again. The really, really big deal with RB is it is capable of generating almost any Biab tracks on it's own using everything in your arsenal as far as midi, Real Tracks or Real Drums. One thing RB does not do is generate Biab midi soloists, only RT soloists. As you said, the midi soloists are not that great for studio work anyway. This is much faster than creating one RT solo in Biab, exporting it, going back, generating another version, exporting that etc, etc then in Sonar cutting and pasting parts of those tracks. RB does it all right in front of you plus you don't even have to generate a whole track. If all you need is 8 bars, you can highlight those 8 bars on the target track and hit generate. You can change styles, change the instrument, go into the chord grid and tweak that then highlight the next 8 bars and generate those 8 bars only without changing what you just did. Multiply that by 48 tracks and you suddenly have all kinds of possibilities that you can't touch with Biab or any other DAW. This also works great with drum and percussion tracks. I use Jamstix and a Biab midi drum track played through JS sounds almost exactly like a RD track and they mix together very well. I've used 3 or 4 tracks of RD drum kits, RD percussion and midi drum parts going through JS and then mixing those for a killer drum track. Again, this is all right in front of you, no generating one track, exporting, going back and forth. Auditioning sounds, using trial and error is much faster in RB because you don't have to delete something you may not think is perfect until you've used up all 48 tracks. Just leave them there, no harm, some part of that track may fit perfectly with another track you haven't generated yet. And, you don't have to pay anything for this, you already have RB included with your Ultrapak.
As a studio producer you may not need Biab for it's primary purpose of creating a complete backup band although RB has an option to load Biab songs and do that too. You probably only need a few tracks to go along with what you already have. This is exactly what RB was created to do. I would export your existing tracks into RB and work from there or, maybe not all of them just a quick reference mix. Once you have used RB to create, cut and paste your new tracks, create a nice submix then export those back into wherever for your final mix although RB is perfectly capable of doing that too.
I think once you've gotten the feel for this it will save you a lot of time not to mention open up creative possiblities you may not realize yet.

Bob

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