


#Ireal pro vs band in a box upgrade
I think I paid for the upgrade once, but the times I've tried to activate the real tracks (instead of the General MIDI defaults) it didn't work, so I've never used them. BIAB has RealTracks, which are sample based, but they are (or used to be) an extra charge. The audio quality on both of them is pretty.lounge. It is more expensive than iReal, but for shedding on tunes it's by far my favorite. The UI is very Windows 98 and his its own quirks, but being able to access it via a proper keyboard and mouse, and the much larger screen real estate make it a lot more usable for me. Their ideas of groove names, and the variety of grooves is.weird.īand-In-Box is my favorite for practicing with at home. If you're just downloading existing charts, it's fine-if you're trying to create your own charts, and the tune has any arrangement twists, it's a pain in the ass. Then I use Real Band to open that file, and then work it so it could be backing track, or accompaniment, or great practice song. For me it's downside is the user interface, which is clumsy and non-intuitive to me, ever after using it for a year or so. The way I use it is to craft my work in BIAB, and save the file as. IReal Pro's advantage is that you can run it on a tablet, so you can use it for charts on a gig (this is super common in Seattle jazz gigs), and since so many other people are using it, you can mail each other charts in a common format. I do have and use iReal Pro, both the desktop and mobile version, and Band-In-Box.
