Thanks for your offer, I may well take the offer up, partners birdthay today and I do'nt want her to feel ignored

Lets be very clear what want to do. I want to be able to play TruePianos (Which is VST and or standalone -see demo) with a BIAB song and record it - simple. I can already do this by exporting the track to Cubase and then recording the piano there, but that turns the whole session into a recording session. Instead I would like to record the piano during quick and dirty practice sessions - MIDI and Audio too.

I am not interested in learning Powertracks I already have a better sequencer.

Here is my kit:

Win 7, Core i7 920, 64 bit, PC, 12 gig of Ram. Focusrite Liquid 56 Firewire running their Saffire 2.2 Driver.

Its a long time since I tried RB (for my memory) but I recall trying all the settings for sample rates and all the settings in RB with no luck.
At present i am getting sound from the demo songs but cant load any plugins they appear breifly in the VST DXI windowe and then vanish. I have Audio set for 16 bit 44.1.

Win 11 64, Asus Rog Strix z390 mobo, 64 gig RAM, 8700k