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6…Rob Helms recently posted why he uses RB to do tunes over other music creation app software….here's the link….very interesting post in case someone has missed it.

https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=809740#Post809740

kudos Rob.
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7…more ways to analyse a song and/or learn it after importing to RB.
(or maybe you want to redo an old song of yours but you never made production notes when you did the rough demo years ago…lol..(been there done that)...but now lots of people have told you that's a 'cool song'...and/or some music org/entity is super excited/wowed about the songs potential and want a more flushed out 'modern' version…ie..actually you might actually make money...)

8...There are lots of interesting views and approaches in RB to help you.…(RTFM…lol.)
Here's some examples….

..if you do it right notice how the timeline in rb tracks view reflects chords of the imported midi file…and chords in chords view.
..notice the funky useful re-interpret feature in chords view for both midi and audio.
(i jused this recently to quickly analyse an old audio demo of mine.)
..notation view (<<<< PLEASE NOTE I'M USELESS AT NOTATION…so i'm hoping other rb users can post tricks about such.). but let me comment...
maybe having analysed your old demo and derived
the notation…notation view might be useful if say your in a band and want to print out the notation to show your bandmates or say a session muso your bringing in ??
..classic view provides various info…eg events/patches etc etc.
..guitar view is kinda neat cos let's say you have a midi stream…it will show you notes being played etc. an interesting aspect of this might be maybe youve loaded a pg song demo.
using this you could see the notes the pg session players played…might be useful to see how the pro's do it eg midi supertrack..?
..event list…i could go into various aspects…but in the spirit of brevity…please read the manual.
Lots of seasoned midi users are very creative with event lists. (lots of info on the net too.)
..piano roll of course allows you to do all sorts of editing and other tricks.
Once again it might be useful to see how a piece was played by a pg session muso ??
and of course it will allow you to edit a genned midi track.
..bars view…one of my fav views over the years…with various uses.
eg let's say you have a mate playing midi piano but you like a lick at bar 29 for 4 bars but not bar 99 for 4 bars. just copy the bar 29/4 bars to bar 99/4 bars.
Also there are lots of funky things you can do in bars view like copy/paste sections of midi spread over one or more tracks to new tracks . Here's an example…let's say you like tracks 14 thru 19 for bars 39 through 49 and you want to to copy to new tracks you can do that.
a really funky tip also is maybe on track 29 you have midi driving a fav vst but you want to test with a different vsti…without disturbing track 29…SOOO copy one or more sections of track 29 to a new track…say…blank track 39 that you call vsti tests…and then on 39 plug in your other vsti(s) you want to test and mute 29.

I hope the reader new to rb is starting to realise, as I said, rb is choc full of features one can use if one digs a bit and develops one's own custom tricks and work methods over time.
yes the gui/dialogs are dated...BUT...start working with rb and go thru the initial learning cycle...and hopefully youll find it very usefull like me (and Rob and other users) over other music apps.
dont forget...as Rob says...all the huge numbers of pg session music tracks you can generate in a ton of different music genres. in summary....
RB is really unique in music apps.(like biab is.)

more to come.

happiness.

om