I read post after post about changing 'this' instrument in 'that' style, tweak this, edit that.....

How are the majority of you folks using this product that you spend that kind of time editing these various components? I have only had this for a bit under a month and I use it to do rough demos to send to the players who will eventually record the songs in a real studio. Whether it is Brent Mason's amazing guitar work in the packaged style or not, Brent won't be playing on my CD and my guitar player isn't going to play the solo like BIAB can create it with the Brent Mason samples anyway, so it doesn't really matter what BIAB produces. Playing with friends of 30 years or more, hearing songs morph and evolve as each guy suggests things (my songs, my final approval) is the fun part of the creative process.

This is indeed a great WRITING TOOL, but LIVE music is just that - LIVE, with real live, breathing PEOPLE playing. I understand and agree that everybody is different and this is just my opinion, but spending hours fooling with one little guitar hit being 1/16 of a beat anticipated or not.... my songs go to my guys with an audio track explaining "Okay, Russ, your solo is after the 2nd chorus, and you pick up right into it after the vocals and play 32 bars into the key change that leads into the bridge.", or "Tim, I need big organ pads here under the chorus. Think 'Pink Floyd'.", but I don't spend hours on the demo trying all 74 million styles in varying combinations of instrument substitutions when 15 seconds of conversation will do the same job. I mean, at some point, musicians need to actually play instruments, right?

And again, this is just me, and there is no "right way", but I am really curious about this.

I once had a poster of DaVinci painting The Mona Lisa while sitting at a computer using a CAD drawing program. Made me think a lot.