Hmmmm...well, I do agree that BIAB is not easy to learn COMPLETELY. However, I think it's the single most amazing piece of computer software that I have ever used--bar none. I recently did an off-the-wall version of 'Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms' just to try out the mega-cool bluegrass Realtracks. I sent an MP3 file via email to a working musician I know, and he asked who the players were and what parts, if any, I was playing!! It's that damned good. [I'm NOT that good.]

How do they do those Realtracks so well, anyway? Astounding...

If you compose any music, BIAB is a real godsend. Where else can you plug in a C5 cord in place of a C9, and instantly hear the difference? Or swap out styles, change instrument load-outs, tempos, ad infinitum.....You see, the actual problem is that BIAB is remarkably deep and gets more and more complex as you get into using it. Toucher is exactly right, IMHO. Think of BIAB as an INSTRUMENT that you have to learn to play, and proceed to teach yourself and learn from others with that concept in mind. BIAB is an amazing, complex, and beautiful musical instrument that will require patience, dedication, and practice, practice, practice.

The results often blow my feeble mind away...and I'm a real nimrod.

Finally, this just may be the best software support forum on the net, so go ahead and use it, even if you just lurk about soaking up knowledge. I'm a real information leech with the stuff on this forum, and may I add that it also has about the best developer support of any product/forum also.

P.S. The 'old timers' here can get a bit testy when folks do a little flaming on BIAB.

Fire, the wheel, and the I IV V -- foundations of civilization.