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Have you visited Youtube and typed, "Band in a Box live" into their Search box?



Let me answer.

I have not, and will not.

No more than I would ever turn to youtube when my brand new car has a problem. When I paid a small fortune for that car, along with it comes the implicit support from the people where I bought the car. I expect a clearly written owners manual, and people at the dealership falling all over each other running to help to me when I walk through the door.

A lot of people tend to live on a plane of "If I know how to do this, I will assume that everybody should." That is part of this ridiculous acronym ridden world we live in. We live in a silly world where a second mortgage is glamorized as a "Home Equity Loan", and a used car is called a "Previously titled automobile". Tell any music newbie about his DAW and look at how his eyes become glazed over. I did not know I owned a DAW. I DID know I owned sequencing software. Do we all have to be so "industry hip" that we speak this language like musicians belong to some secret society? The BIAB help files are LITTERED with things like "DAW". An acronym like that should NEVER be in a help file. Never. Help files need to be written for people who are borderline illiterate. That 5% that "gets it" isn't going to be reading your help files. Who IS going to be reading the helps is the kid who just got his first computer and wants to play his guitar along with it and has no idea what he is doing. I have requested in other posts that BIAB have a "simple mode".

"Click here to create a solo". Not generate. Create.
"Click here to create a different solo." Not regenerate. Create different.

In the world of computer help, the top selling books are the "For Dummies" series. They are SO WELL WRITTEN in simple language that those guys who came up with them are brilliant.

When I have to spend 90 minutes looking through help files just to see why when I play my synthesizer into my MIDI interface RealBand is not recording the sound (when I can record just fine with the same hardware connected the same way when I use Sonar) that is a bad thing. I have a BA in Music, an Associate in Computer Science, and an IQ of 162. I have been using MIDI since the standard came out and my old stage rig was a MIDI marvel with a routing box and a remote keypad to send setup changes through it..... I am not a dummy.

Yet to find how to do something as simple as record some Hammond onto a track in RealBand.....