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Please just display the honesty to admit that it is a difficult program for a non-musician to learn, and stop beating people over the head when they say so!

Thanks.

My head beating will no doubt commence now.



No head beating from me. If you're not a musician then it logically follows that you don't know what a Digital Audio Workstation is, as in midi, synthisizers, other hardware, using a computer for recording, audio waveforms, all that kind of thing.
If you've had some college, then you know about course prerequisites. You have to have some experience with these things or you're dead in the water. It's like taking an engineering course when you didn't pass high school algebra. If you think Biab is tough, try paying $600 for Sonar Producer or any other big name DAW and see how far you get.
Compared to these other music production softwares, Biab is by far the easiest to learn. Doesn't mean it's easy if you can see the distinction.
if you have no experience in the field, it has all the tools to get you there if you're willing to apply yourself. That means learning basic chords, scales, musical terminology and related Windows functions. If you're not willing or able to do that, the program is not going to do it for you.
As far as marketing, what would you have Peter and the experienced user base do? What is a musician? At what level do you draw the line to the general public concerning what you need to use the program? How many people can grab a guitar and strum some basic 3 chord folk or country songs? They know those chords and they can count to 4 and not much else. Are they musicians? Can they use Biab? Yes, if they're also somewhat of a computer geek in another field. If they know nothing about a PC except how to send an email and play a youtube video, probably not.
Those of us who are pro, semi-pro musicians, recording engineers, educated hobbyists, etc know what it takes to create backing tracks at the level Biab does. Biab is an amazing program and it's very easy to use when compared to the alternatives. If you have no clue what those alternatives are, then you don't know what we're talking about.

Bob

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