What's easy and intuitive for me may ugly and cumbersome for someone else. Take your time.check all the free demos to determine application intuitiveness and if the GUI is appealing.Īll DAW apps have their place and one's choice is very subjective. It's like anything else it's easy once you know it, haha. I knew less than squat about any of this and was a total lost soul but I gradually got it. 15 years ago I was in the exact same position. Please understand I'm not talking down or making fun or any of that. RB is known as one of the easier ones to learn for a nooby. If you can't figure out RB then good luck with the others too. The basic principles are the same from one DAW to another. It's all there right in front of you with Real Band. This stuff takes time and patience, I know you probably don't believe me but you have more tools right now than you can learn in the next year. Trying to just jump in and make it work without that basic background is just crusin for a brusin, ya know? You have to learn those terms and understand them. Exactly the same things as a DAW using the jargon of studios.
Earlier in your computer using experience were you confused by printer jargon like Landscape, Portrait, a Print Cue and stuff like that? It's because your computer print function is using the terms used by professional print shops. Like every other specialty out there, studios have their own language. That cannot be avoided because a DAW is replicating what goes on in a real multi million dollar recording studio. VST's work perfectly well in RB, you just can't seem to understand instructions and I think I know why, it's because of the tech jargon. Stay with it and learn it before flying around from one thing to another. I'll repeat that Real Band is as much a DAW as any other name you've read about. Despite what some here will say, RB is a perfectly competent DAW. There are people here who have used Power Tracks and then RB for years and never use another DAW. You need to be the guy friends and relatives come to with their Window's problems.Īs an outside observer my advice is to settle down and learn what you have which is Biab and RB. Obviously I could be wrong, this is just a forum and I'm not a mind reader but you need to be very proficient with Windows before you go jumping into something as complex as digital audio. You also also seem confused by some basic Windows operations. Respectfully, you don't know enough to make that statement.
Now you're asking about other DAW's and making comments about other DAW's doing things RB can't. I just revisited your thread in the RB forum concerning that VST issue and it ended on 10/28 with no further input from you saying if you figured that out or not. I may have missed some things but you kept talking about things like you can't get VST's to load and other issues.
Once the PC caught up to the Mac, I had no need for one except to support others in the family who use one.Ģb, you have several threads going and most mention RB.
Had I stayed on Mac, I would have spent more time on Pro Tools, which is used in the studios I go to.
I only used the Mac for notation software in the early 90s. Note that I primarily use a PC for pro audio. Had I not been proficient in SONAR, I’m sure a different DAW could have seemed more sensible. I also liked that it had a good iPad app. The one I found easiest to transfer to was Mixcraft. Before we knew SONAR would be ‘saved’ I tried Reaper, Cubase, and others. Now the essence of this is the free BandLab. The way they implement the features, and even what they call them, is what you have to evaluate.įor decades I used Cakewalk Pro Audio, which became SONAR. I’ve tried many and used several in studios. Thus even if you use RealBand along with BIAB, you should also learn a more traditional DAW if you want to get serious. It has DAW functions, sure, but as the only DAW that reads BIAB files it has unique features. I have always thought that RealBand shouldn’t be included. There’s a lot of info here in past discussions about DAWs.