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Thanks Bob:

A question on RB ... does it have access to all of the styles and patches that BiB has? It does make sense that for what I am doing with my Roland, a sequencer makes more sense. I'm sure I'll have a stronger opinion about this in a week or so of fiddling with these products.

Chris



Yes, with a few exceptions that may or may not matter to you. RB can use all the Biab styles and all the Real Tracks/Drums that you have. When you first set up RB you have to do the same dance that Biab does regarding pointing the program to the folder where the RT's and RD's live. A couple of differences:
Biab has a very cool midi soloist function where you can pick any one of hundreds of soloists based on famous players. RB can't access that, if you want to use a midi soloist you must first create it in Biab and then move it over to RB. Confusing point, there are also RT soloists. RB handles those with no problem.
Another difference is the Conductor feature in Biab. This is mainly for live playing, it allows you to jump around the song by sections controlled by hitting just one of your number keys on your pc keyboard. There's some other differences like Biab's Soundtrack that can create a completely new song out of nothing, but as far as working with midi files and Biab style tracks are concerned, RB does everything Biab does with the addition of 48 tracks, the ability to use different styles on different tracks without having to regenerate the whole song and you can manually record your vocals or instrument parts just like any other multitrack track recorder. Biab only has one audio track to record on. Oh, another very big deal to a lot of us is the ability to use more than one synth. Right now you're focused on your Roland and maybe that's all you will ever use but there's tons of other hardware synth modules that eventually you may like better than your keyboard as well as myrid software synths (softsynths). Biab can only use one at a time but RB can use up to 16 of them. What this does for you is to give you choices as to which string patch to use or whatever. Your Roland has string patches but you may think the strings in another synth sound much better. As time goes on most of use wind up using many different synths for certain sounds and RB lets you do that.
There's many things you can do with RB, check out the forum and do a forum search using my username and keyword Real Band. I've answered variations of the "why use RB?" question many times over the last several months.

Bob

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