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<< So no one else on planet earth will ever be able write an Al Gore Rhythm to put wma files musically into Reaper ? >>
Nope. They'll have to invent their own algorithm and then win a lawsuit against PG Music.
Don't get all dusted about this. You're actually saying the point you're missing.
No DAW generates music. DAWs are post-generation. DAWs need BIAB more than BIAB needs DAWs. DAWs begin with music input into them whether midi or audio. BIAB generates music.
<< "RT-1152 and see if the section is replaced with silence." that's a good idea generate up an empty wav file to create an empty space on the DAW track ? >>
Exactly. DAWs don't need RT1152 Silence so that RT is ignored in RB and the Plug-in. The audio in the RT folders are at the most basic level of audio production residing in BIAB.
The point being, BIAB has many tools, features and processes like RT1152 to create more complex and sophisticated musical arrangements than people who don't use those tools, features and processes generate when they don't use them. BIAB uses unique tools to generate many things that users choose to export raw or simple arrangements in order to manually construct their music rather than have BIAB automatically generate a sophisticated, complex arrangement.
You choose to develop scripts and programs to assist people integrate BIAB tracks into their DAWs. You help a lot of people that use DAWs.
I'm very familiar with DAWs and have multiple DAWs as well as hardware digital multi track recorders. I choose to work completely in BIAB for nearly every project. I don't encourage anyone to adopt this workflow or discourage anyone from using their preferred way of using BIAB.
<< Was Biab 2009 was fine in your eyes ? >>
I first purchased BIAB in 2013 and yes, it was fine. However, by 2015, I had dropped exporting tracks to RealBand and then Studio One and was doing complete projects in BIAB. If I needed tracks that required DAW processing, I did in that in the DAW and imported those into BIAB. Did you know that 100% of the demos and demos with vocals are finished in BIAB SGU files and not Reaper, Cakewalk, Logic, RealBand, Studio One or ProTools?
BIAB is a very robust and powerful digital Multi Track Recorder. More powerful than my hardware Tascam Model 24 digital Recorder/mixer because of BIAB's integration with my PC.
I know the principles of multi track recording very good and they can be applied to the BIAB Mixer and produce as many tracks as I want. I think it was in 2014 that BIAB got the recording audio feature and Artist Performance File and BIAB was no longer restricted to 8 tracks. Projects could be constructed with 15-18 tracks or more without any degradation of the audio from bouncing. The RT Medley Maker can be used for 'automatic punch-in' and with the addition of Utility Tracks, and using the 10 channel sub-mixer slots for punch-in's , there's 264 available slots for automatic overdubs and punch-ins. There were 70 before Utility Tracks were introduced. You ever use those?
Part Markers are an astounding arrangement programming feature. Combined with MultiStyles the arrangement configurations are astronomical. A MultiStyle can be made on a per project basis or constructed to be universal and placed in the StylePicker to use on any song. MultiStyles can be made on the fly from the Bar Settings Window. A MultiStyle can have as many as 24 sub-styles and they can be used over and over in any configuration.
MultiStyles can be used in conjunction with the RT Medley Maker.
The Artist Performance File feature is a very powerful tool that can integrate every media type of sound BIAB recognizes. So, midi, SuperMidi, Loops, RealTracks and live or recorded audio can be merged together. It's Artist Performance Files that provided the opportunity starting in 2014 for audio to reside on any other track in the Legacy Mixer which prior to then, it wasn't possible.
There's no war between DAWs and BIAB. They each have their place and as you've shown, they can work extremely well together. Keep doing what you're doing. I don't think the people that use BIAB and a DAW are going anywhere. You will be able to help people for a long time to come.
At the same time, I will be making tracks and songs as complex and sophisticated as they can make in a DAW but doing in minutes what takes them hours while producing indistinguishable results between the two.
BIAB 2025:RB 2025, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.
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