I was in Sam Ash some time ago messing around on various keyboards. I started talking to some kids who wanted to learn more about music. They can already play fairly well and I started talking about Biab and they loved the idea. Another guy was standing off to the side and he said he liked what I was playing and why would a good player like me mess around with a toy program like Biab? I started by asking him what he knew about it and he basically hadn't seen it for years. I told him a bit about the new stuff and I also asked him about his set up and what he was doing in his home studio. He proceeded to tell me about a fabulous home studio he has and some commercial clients he's worked with. All Mac based using Logic Pro with thousands of dollars worth of outboard stuff and I could tell right away he's not only a pro level player, he's a pro level recording engineer too. I immediately switched gears and started talking about forum member Harvey Gerst. If you guys don't know him, google his name. He's a heavyweight producer who owns a multimillion dollar studio in Texas. He will use Biab to fill in some tracks for his lower end clients who can't afford to hire a full band for demos. He posted some examples here a few years ago and they sounded awesome.

The point here is it all depends on who you're talking to and what level they're at. If it's somebody like that guy in Sam Ash, I would agree, to him Biab is a toy program unless he needs something very specific like Harvey does occasionally. Same thing with a music teacher I know who has three locations, he has maybe 10 good teachers working for him and he too has a very elaborate home studio set up in his living room no less including a 9 foot concert grand. He uses Biab all the time but just for his students to practice with. As for him personally he never uses it and has no interest. He even told me point blank as far as he's concerned, it's just for the kids. If he needs to lay down a track of whatever instrument he brings a friend over, gives him a beer and they lay down the track. Oh yeah, his wife is a classical music professor at Cal State Long Beach so she can bring in all those players too.

Obviously I disagree with these assesments but from their point of view I can see where they're coming from. These guys are true pros and even if they might wind up liking Biab, they don't have time to load it up and learn it. They're purists with the ability to actually live up to that artistic purity. They have no interest in automatic backing tracks.

Bob

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