musiclover.
(and for any lurkers that dont know about rb and might consider it.)

just my opinions but...re 'all tracks are equal'.,

1..even tho i love the 'concept' of the new bb tracks view there are a plethora of things i can do in rb tracks view (and rb bars view) in comparison that i cant do in bb.
so many in fact i would be typing pages of info and just dont have the time. (also rb bars view is very useful for moving chunks of midi bars around.)
2..i still view bb as i have always done (until features in bb tracks view are added.)
just like we used to do in studios.
ie bb for quickly getting the song idea down (when i get a song idea at
3am and im groggy from sleep...lol.) eg a architect planning out a house
and then rb for actually building the darn house.
i still find if i try to do it all in bb i miss a load of usefull rb features.
3..one major problem i see re rb is because its so deep re features that many people dont have the time to delve into it.
which is a shame as us long time users of rb realise its depth of features and tricks certainly compared to any music app ive seen on the market.
(i keep on trying other daws but keep on coming back to rb.)
4..in the last couple of years pg have added further new features to rb
(yay !! lol.) that bb just doesnt have....eg comping.

and i could go on as i said.
in summary dont think of it as bb versus rb...i think of the benefits of useing both together. because both have their plusses and minuses.

as ive mentioned to pg several times over the last few years rb could slay the daw market if various cosmetic graphic changes were made to it to pretty it up plus a few other features i would like to see and things to clean up.
for any lurkers who know nothing about rb and maybe considering these great pg products which have enabled so many of us to create our songs just compare the bb and rb manuals to see first hand the plusses and minuses of each to save me typing a ton of pages.

(note in RB ...ALL THE 256 TRACKS ARE ACTUALLY EQUAL...lol.)
compared to rb i find useing bb utility tracks more time consuming frankly.
and i sometimes get frustrated when i want to do editing.

also frankly my big criticism is i wish years and years ago pg had have been more aggressive developing rb instead of this yearly trickling out of added features.
(ie been more aggressive like the reaper developers over the years which ive used since reaps was introduced...but use less these days due to added rb features.)

so...if one truly wants 'all tracks to be equal' imho rb is the better solution.

just my 2 cents.

happiness

om

Last edited by justanoldmuso; 04/22/25 05:12 AM.
my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..)
https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs
(90 songs created useing bb/rb)
(lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)