Rusty,

Originally Posted By: Rustyspoon#
custom quick access menu from my screenshots that is available..I am thinking if a "custom" tab is set by default with a certain set of tools for beginner in mind, you would not have to go in deep menus for most tasks. As you would have 10 or so main functions of the program in one, visible and accessible from any point place. Of course, with ability to change / customize things at a later time as you see fit. More shortcuts with icons needed to be made...
The only thing in this case, is purely esthetics is the position of access of quick panel, which is at the right corner of the screen now, while most people would expect main controls to be on the left. But that is minor and perhaps is fixable by making a distinct single "start here" button somewhere on the left side which would host beginner, intermediate or advanced set of tools and functions.

that's also a good idea!

Originally Posted By: Rustyspoon#
I think it is a big task and a problem for PG music to re-structure most menus.

I also have that impression.

Essential would be in my opinion that there would be added an (at least temporarily parallel) structure which at first relieves the other menues from these song-element-makers. Let's say: For BiaB 2022 :-)

Then (let's say: for BiaB 2023) the song-element-makers could be restructured easier, and the remaining parts of the old menues as well.

The song-element-makers should definately be treated more strictly in a modular manner (why is the chord builder a part of the melody maker atm???), and as a whole they should be treated first of all as a bottom-up-songbuilding process. That would not only match the way a user/musician "mainly" thinks when he creates a song in BiaB, but it also would give quite a huge new freedom for further developments of the software.

Top-down-options (breakdown/analyze/simplify a song and the like) are also important and therefore should be featured, too - but in another menu (resp. in other menues). It's just that I myself would like to concentrate on a bottom-up-approach currently, since I find that more urgent at the moment.

Last edited by MoveToGroove; 10/05/21 02:15 AM.
BiaB Pro 2022; Windows 10
Bass: Intermediate; Piano: Beginner
I came to this forum in order to suggest feature improvements for non-professional musicians like myself that use BiaB mainly as a playalong tool and as a learning tool