I don't know if my use of BIAB is typical. I use it mainly as a practice tool to work on patterns, scales, and improvisation of jazz tunes for me and my students. Occasionally I use it to create solos for sight reading or to get new ideas.

I just have the basic set of RealTracks and RealDrums. Although the add-ons look and sound appealing, I cannot justify the expense at this time.

Because of this, I don't think that many of the new features in the BIAB 2011 update will be of much use to me.

Here are features I am most interested in: (forgive me if this smacks of a Mac vs Windows comparison, but I had BIAB Mac when it first came out and rarely used it, then recently got hooked with BIAB 2008 Windows, and jumped back on-board with BIAB 2010 Mac)

I want to see the chorus # while its playing

I would like the display of measures per line to be variable to account for music that is not written in four bar phrases.

I would like to see more than four measures in the notation window when I am trying to read and play along with the soloists.

I would like an easier way to switch between the concert and transposed views of the chord changes.

I would like to use different fonts and chord suffixes.

I would like repeats, 1st & 2nd endings, codas

I would like the chord view to shrink to display more lines while playing.

Those are the things that would make my use of BIAB more enjoyable.

Gordon Giedt