Originally Posted by Bob Calver
sorry Audio Track - i know the post was in the BIAB forum but the point i was trying to make is that whilst you can do almost anything in BIAB, what the OP wanted to do is so easy in RB. I'm on a one man mission to ask people who have never even opened RB to take a look at the program they get for free which is actually simpler to use than BIAB - IMHO.

i know i'm not alone in switching to RB after generating a basic track in BIAB and appreciate that some users prefer to stay in BIAB to the very end.

As you say............."We can only hope. Maybe 2025? In the meantime, we can only work with what we've got.
Also, not all users are highly skilled at mixing, especially dynamic mixing, and many would not have the required add-ons."

We've all got RB and it takes very little skill and no add ons to achieve what the OP wants to do in RB.

But whatever work flow works for individuals is up to them and BIAB is a truly amazing program.


No problem Bob. I'm sure you understand what I said and demonstrated, but I'm not sure you got my point. Most opinions you, OM and other DAW proponents commonly assert are true and I have no issues with them. What's lacking with your point of view in not only this discussion, but all DAW/BIAB comparison discussions, is there's never a presentation outlining the differences to how BIAB does a task as compared to the steps in a DAW. There's a huge difference between BIAB being a non-linear software that's based around the Chord Sheet for user input and display - to all DAWs, including RealBand being linear software for input and display. This difference obfuscates what are advantages compared to disadvantages between the two systems.

To do the task in this post using BIAB's default midi sound engine or MultiStyles, requires no mixing or add-on's, so no such skills would be necessary and it would be accomplished within the program and take little time, without losing any of BIAB's tools, features, Styles or instruments.

"I'm impressed with what you can achieve in BIAB"

My point is to impress upon and other DAW advocates, what -you- can achieve in BIAB.

The example demo I posted simply requires anyone curious to what I've just explained, to hear the difference by opening and playing the demo SGU file in BIAB and then Opening and playing the same demo file in RealBand.

Using the steps with either BIAB solution presented to this simple problem, using BIAB, it's possible to quickly, efficiently and without advanced or even moderate mixing and arranging skills, for BIAB to create quite a complex arrangement in seconds without manual manipulation, multiple instrument track generations, exterior programs- RB or other DAWs.

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