I hear you, but not totally true Bob, I don't think you can say "A typical DAW cannot do any of those things" most DAWs have notation windows, piano rolls that use cut and paste, and many have drum sequencers like Session drummer etc, and midi pattern sequencers, with drop and drag samplers that allow you to build tracks from patterns, and loops. Sonar has built in features that do this and other things like V-vocal that allows you to build internally harmony tracks and such.

No these are nothing like BiaBs generation capability, where you type in chords and hit go, but they do help with creation. Most are far more complex in the spectrum of recording than BiaB, and far less complex in the area of Autogeneration.

But both platforms are feature rich these days.

I am in no way trying to be argumentive, but just sayin'

Rob

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