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Dan, to answer your question of having a good basic track but then you change the chart, what I just described is also why you need to use Real Band, not Biab. The same principle applies to all the instruments, not just the drums. If you managed to find a great RT guitar part you want to keep and then changed the chart, in RB you can keep that track and regenerate a new one as many times as you want. It's very useful to generate one version of a part, then go into the chord grid and change the part markers and/or the style to give a different feel and do it again. Then you may want to keep part of your original track, maybe cut it and paste it onto another track and by doing that you may use parts of several different tracks in order to make one good one. Just like the drums, these tracks can be from a midi file, your own audio recording, a generated Real Track or a generated Biab midi track.
Real Band can give you a ton of choices to play and experiment with even with that VST glitch.



First off, thanks for responding Bob. I hoped my question didn't get lost.

What I have trouble with is getting some great performances going with sometimes literally only half the chart done. I like to hear how RT's are sounding with my chart as I go along. Sure, I could render the good "half performances" and mix and match, but that's not always what I'm after. A full performance, no matter what instrument RT, has a certain style that plays out coherently unto itself. To mix and match one instruments performance can be hit or miss. I have also found that regenerating does seem to follow a round-robin pattern, where eventually that one great performance will pop back up. But with generating times being dreadfully slow, that is a total pain. What I'm learning to do is write up the chart in biab, without caring about the keeper RT's until the chart is fully finished. Then, spend a night choosing performances in RB. And I do mean a night. Something has to be done with the speed of generating, and saving a project too. I like to save as I go along and good grief, that can take up quite a chunk of your time alone. Same with generating tracks in RB. It takes so long I dread having to do it. It's a complete musical flow stopper. And that brings me to my last observation with this. I prefer to get the basic rhytum tracks generated in biab. I don't know about the rest of you, but RT's generate [and regenerate] WAY faster in biab than they do in RB. I can actually get some work done generating and regenerating tracks in biab. In RB, it's so slow it's painful. If they have actually improved the speed recently, I can't imagine how slow it was previously.

Dan

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