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I was answering a post from our newest member, LoveGuitar, and mentioned that he shouldn't even try to learn all of BIAB at once... and it got me to thinking.
How much of BIAB/RB do we actually use?
I can be very specific in this: I obviously use the chord sheet, the styles, the demo songs, the Real Tracks and Real Drums, and very occasionally the MIDI editor, although I honestly don't like it and it's much easier to export a MIDI file to Reaper or Acid and work on it there. I import vocals to create harmonies with the TC-Helicon harmonizer. The Mixer has been very nice; I have finally cajoled BIAB into giving me a dry signal, i.e., not playing with the volume/panning or adding reverb. I like being able to audition VST effects and instruments, and rendering with them if I'm sure I'm not gonna want them to change. I render to .WAV, and I save .MID.
And that's it.
Seriously, that is it. I don't even use the Soloist anymore -- why bother, when RTs are so good?
So... what do you use?
Best, Tom SmithWin10/64 • i7-8700K • 24 GB RAM BIAB 2025 • Reaper 7 • Izotope MPS AKG C1000S • IK iRig I/O Pro
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Tom, I've forgotten far more functions than I use.
That's not a joke. BIAB has SO MANY functions, a few of which are even my suggestions. Since I've done beta testing for many years, I try out everything new and devour the manuals looking for anything that doesn't work. During music production, however, I tend to stick with what I normally use, since it works so well.
Nevertheless, to keep from staying in that rut, I've found that it is useful to spend some time every so often going through every option in every menu item and dialog. This helps me answer questions on the forum, and it's absolutely amazing how much stuff is in this program. Does anyone know it all?
ps I never did use the Soloist. That's my job (he said modestly).
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That's not a joke. BIAB has SO MANY functions, a few of which are even my suggestions.
That's the main problem with BIAB. There are far too many tiny features that don't really add to the program but are there because they are the pet idea of a single user. Many experienced users think that P&G's willingness to respond to the wish lists is the sign of a wonderful organization but I consider it to be a case of too much democracy. It has lead to an unwieldly program with it's complicatesd interface that the beta testers love but can be a turn-off for new users. There must be many good muscians who haven't the stomach to learn a program like BIAB.
I have been using BIAB almost every day of my life for the last 14 years and this winter was the first time I have performed in public. I met two professional muscians who were very impressed with what I, as a neophyte performer, could do with BIAB. I tried to show them the program but neither were very computer savy and their reaction was the same - much too complicated looking for them.
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As a relative newbie to BIAB and RB I can sympathize with the frustration of trying to learn all or even part of these amazing programs.
At times it's almost too much of a good thing especially when you know what you want to do but can't find the right button, menu or terminology listed in the Help Manual.
This is especially true if you are like me and want to just dive right in and create without slogging through the manual.
Patience is definitely required at times to get the most out of these programs.
Hard in this age of instant gratification.
That's where the PG staff and this forum with it's friendly vets and user videos becomes a life (or song) saver.
As an illustrator who uses Photoshop, I've watched it expand to where I probably only use 10% of it's capabilities.
It also seems to take a lot longer to load up.
That's why they came out with Photoshop LE which has the basic features a majority of people would use and let's them get their feet wet in the process.
As far as BIAB and RB goes, I say keep adding features but also maybe give us the option to load a Light/ Basic version without having to turn off all those buttons which we may not know if we need or not.
Maybe add pop up suggestion windows in the Help Manual (or like that annoying Paper Clip Assistant in Microsoft Word) which would offer the option of adding more features related to what you are doing at the time.
That said, I applaud the continuing additions and refinements and PG's willingness to respond to user feedback.
I always anxiously await their newest feature releases.
Truly an amazing company.
Carkins
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I don't use all of any program, but I have used or tried to use many functions in Biab and Rb. I love PG's dedication to constantly improving there incredible products and look forward to the 50 new features. Without input from users I don't know if it would be as good because real world application of any software and feedback from customers is so important to it's development.
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And that's about it. There are a lot of BiaB features that I don't use. It's not that the features I don't use are lame by any stretch of the imagination, most of them are quite well done - they are just there for other people to enjoy. I've been playing with BiaB since the early days on the Atari, MS Dos, and Motorola Mac computers. I've watched it grow from humble beginnings (3 instruments, 24 styles, no user styles, no endings) to what it is today. I've had the luxury of learning the new features a few at a time as they have been introduced. I can see where a new user can be confused and I would encourage them to learn BiaB a little at a time. As far as RB is concerned, I haven't used it all that much at all. I've gotten a lot of use out of Power Tracks Pro, which I use a lot for audio (along with Audacity), but I've always preferred to sequence MIDI on Master Tracks Pro - the interface is just easier for my personal brain - and I do a lot of MIDI sequencing. However, we are coming to the tail end of the very busy gigging season hear in South Florida, and I've recently learned that there are things I can do in RB that I cannot do either in BiaB, PTPro or MTPro so as soon as the work slows down, I'm looking forward to learning more about what RB can do to help me make music. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend my favorite sequencer, Master Tracks Pro, ever since GVox bought the company from Passport, they introduced some major bugs and almost 10 years later they haven't fixed them. I still use an older, no longer available version of MTPro and am looking for a good alternative. I prefer to sequence in a MIDI only environment with menu options uncluttered by audio options (and no menus and sub menus and sub-sub menus). Then when it's time for Audio work I like to import the sequence into PTPro and work with everything there. For me it gets the work done faster - of course, as always YMMV. I've done some contract style writing for other auto-accompaniment programs, and from the view of a style author, BiaB is the greatest auto-accompaniment program available today. The output is more musical than the competition, and isn't that what it's all about? Insights and incites by Notes
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I suppose I've used pretty much ALL of it from time to time or another, but I'm not the average case, certainly.
For one thing, there's the beta testing, in which I often "use" new features in order to debug them, but then may not actually use that feature in day-to-day use all that much if at all.
I tend to use features on an "as needed" basis, in other words, if the particular project of the moment calls for something that is not within my normal usage patterns, I will often investigate the FAQs, the .pdf Manuals, the videos and, of course, this forum, and if I find a feature that looks like it will do the required task at hand, I use it.
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That's the main problem with BIAB. There are far too many tiny features that don't really add to the program but are there because they are the pet idea of a single user. Many experienced users think that P&G's willingness to respond to the wish lists is the sign of a wonderful organization but I consider it to be a case of too much democracy. It has lead to an unwieldly program with it's complicatesd interface that the beta testers love but can be a turn-off for new users. There must be many good muscians who haven't the stomach to learn a program like BIAB.
I completely agree. In fact, I've sucesfully taught my wife how to use the basic functions of very complex DAWS like Cubase or Reaper, but I've never had that sucess with BIAB. Even if I've always told her that, as a singer, learning to use BIAB would be one of the best things she could do, she finds the interface just too complicated and unintuitive. And I must agree.
In my opinion, BIAB interface was perfect years ago, when the program was much simpler: you just typed the chords, choosed a MIDI style and that was all. With the introduction of Realdrums, Realtracks, Loops or MIDI tracks, wich you can choose individually, the program's basic philosophy and workflow changed drastically, but its user interface remained basically the same. New functions were just added through the addition of new menus, icons and options, but there was no integration between new and old features. For example, the "Soloist" menu is still there, but now you can use it not only for generating a MIDI solo, but for generating a strummed real guitar, a solo sax or even a drum loop. Try to explain that to a newcomer and he will be crazy; in fact, I find very dificult to justify the logic behind that.
BIAB musical database is a true treasure for any musician, and I still think that buying BIAB is one of the best investiments any musician can do, but frankly I find that one of the best things PGMusic could do in this moment would be to invest some time rethinking its interface / workflow, and making the interface simpler and more modern looking. That not only would improve the joy of using the program to existing users but would attract an new generation of potential users who find the program just too complicated.
(Sorry for the off topic)
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Not at all off-topic, Cerio -- precisely on-topic, in fact. As much as BIAB is simplicity itself for some things, for others it's an exercise in remembering Where The Heck Was That One Setting Again. I find myself wishing that left-clicking on a bar number wasn't already occupied by the function of changing from substyle A to substyle B, because I could easily imagine a little window popping up for the major stuff in the right-click context menu, both for the substyles and the bar itself. The Songs settings could just have a button at the top, or a button on a separate dockable window. For that matter, we could have dockable windows for the chords, lead sheet, notation, audio editor, MIDI editor, and mixer, with tabs at the top or bottom or sides or whatever, and view or un-view them as we like, just like a bunch of other programs have been doing for years now.
I'm realizing, as we discuss this, that the problem isn't necessarily that BIAB does too much -- it's that the interface, long a point of discussion and complaint among users, really is getting too cluttered and clunky for the vastly powerful program underneath it. It's like disguising a Maserati as a Honda Civic.
Maybe we should move this to the Wish List, and start coming up with ideas and even sketch designs...?
Best, Tom SmithWin10/64 • i7-8700K • 24 GB RAM BIAB 2025 • Reaper 7 • Izotope MPS AKG C1000S • IK iRig I/O Pro
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I build arrangerments for live performances, period. With that said everytime there are upgrade or style and real instruments add-ons I revisit most of, if not all of my 700 number song book to see how I can make them better, and even add news songs to the rep.
Pretty boring heh?
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With that said everytime there are upgrade or style and real instruments add-ons I revisit most of, if not all of my 700 number song book to see how I can make them better, and even add news songs to the rep.
Pretty boring heh?
Later,
Hey Danny, So do I. But I seem to get halfway through my list when PG releases an upgrade.
Start again.
Songs with titles beginning with A to G get changed twice a year, but H to Z miss out every time. 
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Hi, Keith - Sounds like you need to split your library in two and update H-Z with the summer release. That way you'll go through all your songs every year. Of course, I say that as a guy who always seems to come back and start with "A" myself. 
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Being a jazz pianist, I use Real Bass and Real Drums for accompaniment on my solo gigs. When I practice on my Akai 4000s, I use piano trios and B3 duos. I like the fact that if I ever need more than I presently use the choices are almost endless. Later, Ray
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I use BiaB mostly as a sketchpad. That is I input chords and find the style, both MIDI and/or RT that I like and then dump that into my DAW for finishing.
During this process I have used jazz up/down chords, chord substitution, and on occasion the Melodist and/or Soloist for inspiration. I also use the print function for chord charts and melody lines. On occasion I will use the harmonizer and ACW.
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I'm realizing, as we discuss this, that the problem isn't necessarily that BIAB does too much -- it's that the interface, long a point of discussion and complaint among users, really is getting too cluttered and clunky for the vastly powerful program underneath it. It's like disguising a Maserati as a Honda Civic.
Maybe we should move this to the Wish List, and start coming up with ideas and even sketch designs...?
I think a redesign of the user interface would imply a major rewrite of the core program. That would be great because it would allow not only and UI redesign, but implementing some very basic and standard features on any modern program (like windows resize, drag&drop support, long filenames or proper undo function, just to name a few) and making of BIAB a much more robust and consistent program. This has has been discussed many times, but unfortunately it seems that PG Music just doesn't want to go that way.
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I use BiaB mostly when i work on original tunes, as the sketch pad, then polish it off in my favorite DAWs (either RB, or MTS)> For working in cover tunes to play for myself or others i use RB strictly. I find that it has everything i need to git 'er dun!
As far as needing a More full featured DAW that has a bit more features than RB/PT i use MTS, one that I suggest to everyone, except the folks that spend time on some other forums prattling on about features for their fav's that 99.99% of us will never need.
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We've just released XPro Styles PAK 9 for Windows & Mac Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) with 100 brand new RealStyles, plus 29 RealTracks/RealDrums!
We've been hard at it to bring you the latest and greatest in this 9th installment of our popular XPro Styles PAK series! Included are 75 styles spanning the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres (25 styles each) that fans have come to expect, as well as 25 styles in this volume's wildcard genre: funk & R&B!
If you're itching to get a sneak peek at what's included in XPro Styles PAK 9, here is a small helping of what you can look forward to: Funky R&B Horns, Upbeat Celtic Rock, Jazz Fusion Salsa, Gentle Indie Folk, Cool '60s Soul, Funky '70s R&B, Smooth Jazz Hip Hop, Acoustic Rockabilly Swing, Funky Reggae Dub, Dreamy Retro Latin Jazz, Retro Soul-Rock Fusion, and much more!
Special Pricing! Until July 31, 2024, all the XPro Styles PAKs 1 - 9 are on sale for only $29 ea (Reg. $49 ea), or get them all in the XPro Styles PAK Bundle for only $149 (reg. $299)! Order now!
Learn more and listen to demos of XPro Styles PAKs.
Video: XPro Styles PAK 9 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!
XPro Styles PAKs require Band-in-a-Box® 2025 or higher and are compatible with ANY package, including the Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, and Audiophile Edition.
Video: Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: VST3 Plugin Support
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac® now includes support for VST3 plugins, alongside VST and AU. Use them with MIDI or audio tracks for even more creative possibilities in your music production.
Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Macs®: VST3 Plugin Support
Video: Band-in-a-Box® 2025 for Mac®: Using VST3 Plugins
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