**ONE BUTTON PUSH TO SEND BIAB TRAKS TO REALBAND**
(and maybe vice versa ?)

heres a suggestion (in this age of automation) to make it much easier to send traks in a bb song to realband (rb) (and maybe vice versa ?).
(the wish is similar in concept to the ease of sending to bb from the acw with just one button.)

as background i was trying vainly recently to help a fellow user trying to send bb traks >> rb.

as a result (and from my own use of bb n' rb) i was testing various ways of getting bb traks into rb including opening the the bb song file into rb as well as dragging traks from bb to rb ie the bb trak names.
in summary i would suggest currently its a tad 'fiddly'.

maybe i missed something currently available (sometimes i'm daft as my wife tells me…lol.) but i DID talk to pg support about the need and i suggested the following SOLUTION…...

haveing given the problem of too many steps for a user to take currently and deep thought..what i feel is needed is a BIG VISIBLE BUTTON in bb….that says something like the following..
SEND ALL TO RB…..thus when a user presses the button the following steps occur automatically without any manual steps/intervention needed from the user.

1..the bb song as it stands is auto saved (just in case…).
2..a new rb project is auto set up.
3..the bb traks are auto sent to individual rb ttraks in the new rb project.
THEN…
4..the new rb project with the just sent bb traks (set out on individual traks)is auto saved as project *.SEQ. maybe even get fancy as follows…
5..if the bb song is called "KITTENS ROCK' sgu or mgu then the auto saved rb seq is called KITTENSROCK.SEQ in the same dir as the bb file song resides in.

let me reiterate …all above occurs without user intervention.
ie all user needs to do is clik once the honking big button in bb.

after the above steps the user is presented with a rb screen with all traks filled...and a message 'seq saved' to bb dir.
ie rb mimics the number of bb traks…eg if bb has 12 traks then so does rb.if bb has only 9 traks so does rb.

now of course , in addition the programmer could get 'fancy shmancy' with other features like…

1..for each trak mimic the bb vol and pan settings and/or midi trak patch settings.
2..auto set up the plug ins in rb same as in bb etc etc.

so in essence the user doesnt have to do anything….just then carry on in rb with all the extra traks rb has.
in summary rb mirrors the bb individual trak settings.

now of course to get really fancy some what about going the other way ? ie rb >> bb.
but of course bb has fewer traks than rb..especially if rb's trak count is say at some point expanded to 96 traks
or more as pc's get more powerfull ??
bit of a poser this idea.

another poser is if a rb project is already displayed on screen. with say x//xx number of traks already filled eg first 24 traks,,thus the user could be asked i guess 'add
bb traks starting at rb trak 25' ??

i hope the above makes a modicum of sense ??

a happy new year to all.

om




Last edited by justanoldmuso; 01/15/23 02:09 PM.
my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..)
https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs
(90 songs created useing bb/rb)
(lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)