Raymb1, I have been with BIAB before it even had year designations, so it is not a case of not knowing what the product can do, or what it was originally designed for. But remember the product has moved on. It is now a recording studio in a box. So whatever the original concept was, the product has grown, and now performs many other functions as well.

I also use BIAB for accompaniment. Generally I mute everything except bass and drums and play or sing melody. So to do that I need the notation. As far as I know, notation has been with the product in some form since the very early days. My first encounter was in the days before repeats, DS, and the ability to use note based lyrics. The fakesheet was a great addition giving us multi-line lyrics and 'endings'

Eventually we got the ability to control the number of bars per staff, which was implemented differently in previous releases. They even fixed the ability to print 'start endings two bars early' and if I remember correctly, that where the fixes stopped. The remainding bugs are still there today.

So I am very familiar with the product, and I do use the product 'as intended', at least as far as I need to. Most of the new functions do not interest me. The difference between the midi drums and real drums are lost on my audiences. As long as there is a beat, they seem happy. I have never questioned the ability of BIAB to provide a great accompaniment. I am just upset that each year PG Music adds so many new (and exciting?) features, yet continues to ignore Notation Printing.

I would be happy to pay for a PrintMusic or equivalent software to get professional (and bug free) printing if PG Music were willing and able to pass all the necessary information to their chosen print product. But for some reason they seem to avoid this option all together.

BIAB for Windows Version 2019 (643)
Windows 10 (1909)