It's a very good idea, but I might boost it a bit. There are already some "built-in" styles which would do very well, possibly with just a hint of a brush-up. Also, limiting each channel to one VST or VSTi, and also including maybe five Real Tracks and about a dozen Real Drums -- and not allowing you to use any others with the free version -- would show off the program while giving a serious reason to buy the whole thing if you like it.

My current thoughts of this are inspired by the free versions of SampleTank, Alchemy Player, and AAS Swatches -- not to mention the various free Players from Native Instruments -- which give you plenty of sound to work with while holding back certain aspects of the programs. Same with DrumCore Free, MDrummer Lite, and the JamStix demo.

There are also programs like BFD Eco, which for the past several months has been selling for $29 rather than its usual $99. The lead-in is to get you to buy BFD 2, which has an absurd 55 GB of drum samples and a number of other functions... but the Eco, at the price point they've had it at this fall and winter, is an incredible deal. (You have five hours left to take advantage of it -- ready, set, go!) My point here is that PG has already done something like BIAB Lite, with SongSmith, a program Microsoft seems to have already abandoned. Certainly PG could remake it to be a proper BIAB Lite and sell it for thirty bucks.

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Tom Smith
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