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Simon.

please dont get rid of rb....its getting very good imho.
(see my reasoning why/answer to MG below.)
particularly with the new comping feature for my vocals...and...YES...
chords in the timeline.
fyi ive been continuing to test various daws from free to expensive over the last few months,
and while there are some very very good ones i found i kept coming back to rb for various features i like.

i suppose its not any easy port of rb to mac due to all the
programming msoft specific api's.
and of course its a pain manageing different code bases etc.
but the m series cpu's are so good i would be surprised if rb didnt work under win emulation.
you know better than i but assuming rb DOES run on a mac m under win emulation would it be easy or difficult to send rb genned tracks to the mac side of the house ? i suspect difficult unless one used the old save track idea to transfer tracks....rather simple D n' D.
for example it might be nice to drag rb genned tracks over to logic
pro like i can in win tween daws.. not doable ?

(btw..thanks for the cheap 25 buck bear iem suggestion.
good for mucking around and it saves my grados and akg's for serious efforts.)

MG.

let me comment on why i respectfully disagree with you re rb.
(BTW i easily drag tracks from rb to another daw i sometimes use.
which also runs nicely the suite of pg dx plugins i like in rb.)
my suggestion is of course keep developing the plugin but not to the exclusion of rb.let me explain why.

heres an example of why diversification in a business can be successfull. in pg's case bb/the plugin/rb.
(ie multiple products).
someone i knew in england ran a very successfull restaurant in a busy tourist seaside town.
the major reason it was a booming biz was there was a bus stop right outside the front door for the packed tourist busses to stop.
in summary the biz was dependent on this one factor for its success.
sadly the town powers that be moved the bus stop to a new centre in the town...and you can guess the result.
its the same with software apps that rely on one factor for success
instead of a multi pronged biz strategy.

thus i would suggest pg continue as they are rather than dropping rb.
many of us like rb and want to see further development.
twould be a boring world if we all liked the same things.

i think it fair to say that yes rb is difficult to get into for some.
it has so many features that of course this means a longer learning
cycle...but many daws i tried recently also have long learning cycles.
its just the nature of the daw market. everyone trying to win new customers by offering lots of features.
but once one explores rb in depth one will discover very interesting capabilities imho. but one must be willing to really drill down and spend time.
it seems that the users that like rb are people like myself that started with pg powertracks...

fyi in my comparison of daws recently a couple i thought were nice were samplitude music studio and multitrackstudio.com.
haveing been in software engineering in the past i particularly liked the latter because of how much it did in a small footprint exe.
(same for reaps...small footprint.).
some daws i couldnt test because the trials wanted too much personal info.
in contrast multitrackstudio.com was a breeze to test out.
downloaded and opened it in a few minutes.


happiness.

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