In no particular order:


1. Implement visual markers on the main chord window.





2. Interface rework, with a more modular approach, drag&drop support, simplified and reorganized menus and Style/Tracks pickers, more modern appearance...; if that’s not possible, I really would like to see a new Stylepicker window, allowing easy reorganization of the categories and styles (via D&D), user comments, style renaming, midi tracks preview...

3. More than 256 bars.

4. Music XML support, to allow exporting BIAB projects to external notation programs.

5. More versatility in Real Styles; Jazz, Rock and Country Real styles are great, but these styles are, IMO, pretty well covered in comparison with other genres like, say, reggae, funk, disco, soul, ska, tango, latin music, new age, or even live hip-hop or electronic music. Broading the spectrum of covered genres not only would increase the program’s value for existing users, but would probably attract new potential users who, right now, could see BIAB as “too much jazz/country” oriented.

6. Allowing partial regeneration of Realtracks, on any track.

7. Preferences finder and custom shortcuts. Having such a high number of options is one of the program’s strongest points and reveals its real power; however with so many options is often difficult (even for experienced users) finding the right one between the different menus and preferences windows. Having a built-in preferences finder in BIAB would make this tedious -and often frustrating- task much easier. In the same way, allowing the user to create his own custom shortcuts would help a lot.

8. Allow navigable loops folders and subfolders.

9. An unique BIAB file format. MGU / SGU difference comes from the days when you only could use the Melody track for MIDI melodies; since the Realtracks days, having two different file formats not only makes no sense, but it’s annoying (at least to me): I’m the whole day trying to find and deleting SGU “versions” of my projects.

10. Fix these bugs:
* Undo feature seems to work only for certain kind of actions.
* Preview button on Style picker window actually loads the style.
* “Copy from..to..” feature deletes settings on target bars, even if “Copy bar settings” option is unchecked.
* A muted (F5) track or part shouldn’t be regenerated when pressing Play; it’s useless and consumes time.
* Pressing "Save" sometimes behaves as "Save as"

Thanks, PG Music for such a wonderful program and for considering these requests!

Last edited by Cerio; 01/31/12 06:53 AM.