There are legitimate and good reasons someone may want to use RealBand or the Band-in-a-Box (BiaB) plugin. However I don't believe a user gains much, if anything, from using the BiaB plugin inside RealBand.

My reasoning is both RealBand and the BiaB plugin do not include some features offered in the main Band-in-a-Box program. As far as I can determine both RealBand and the BiaB plugin are missing the same features so each has the same limitations compared to the main Band-in-a-Box program. Since they both seem to have the same limitations there is no advantage to using the BiaB plugin inside RealBand.

I've never seen a list of what the main program can do that RealBand or the BiaB plugin can't do. However for example I know neither work properly with SGU files that include MultiStyles.


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