

it seems that everything I've seen includes RealTracks with it.
USING BETTER EARS WITH EXTERNAL MIDI SOFTWARE
after a quick look in PG sales I still haven't found the BIAB software as a stand alone. And seeing as I have been using Cakewalk since version 3 was the ultimate music software to have (am I really that old?), I am very comfortable working with it. I CAN NOT play piano and so this setup works for me. Even when the song is shut down and opened again I'm still able to do this.

whatever key I pick, I'm able to play in that key in the C formation. And so Sonar allows me to enter the song's key as a number. I'm using Sonar 8 Producer for the same reason. Once all the insurments are done in Sonar I then put in my audio tracks. I'm actually only using BIAB for it's styles and usually just for just the bass and drum tracks. Therefore, doing everything in MIDI allows me to slow the song down a lot so that I can enter my lead, piano, fiddle, etc. In fact, I can only do anything in the C formation and even then it is a hunt and peck style of playing. like you, I'm not a piano player and I'm probably even worse than you. has there been any new changes made to BIAB, the program itself, since '09, without the RTs? If so, is it even possible to get just the BIAB software update? Again. the very first purchace I made back in the early '90's was a Roland "Rap-10" which was then considered to be the best MIDI card on the market and it WAS a great piece of hardware for that era. It goes without saying that the Ketron is one fantastic little piece of hardware. My point being that if you have the right hardware, MIDI is a strong option because if anything, I find working, editing etc much easier. that is what kept me from using the RTs and using MIDI in everything I did and do. Shortly after getting the BIAB bundle I took Mac's advice and bought a Ketron sd2. After playing around and around with the RT that came with it I found that I liked using MIDI instead. Just to add my 2 cents, for what it's worth.
