And that's about it.

There are a lot of BiaB features that I don't use. It's not that the features I don't use are lame by any stretch of the imagination, most of them are quite well done - they are just there for other people to enjoy.

I've been playing with BiaB since the early days on the Atari, MS Dos, and Motorola Mac computers. I've watched it grow from humble beginnings (3 instruments, 24 styles, no user styles, no endings) to what it is today. I've had the luxury of learning the new features a few at a time as they have been introduced. I can see where a new user can be confused and I would encourage them to learn BiaB a little at a time.

As far as RB is concerned, I haven't used it all that much at all. I've gotten a lot of use out of Power Tracks Pro, which I use a lot for audio (along with Audacity), but I've always preferred to sequence MIDI on Master Tracks Pro - the interface is just easier for my personal brain - and I do a lot of MIDI sequencing. However, we are coming to the tail end of the very busy gigging season hear in South Florida, and I've recently learned that there are things I can do in RB that I cannot do either in BiaB, PTPro or MTPro so as soon as the work slows down, I'm looking forward to learning more about what RB can do to help me make music.

Unfortunately, I cannot recommend my favorite sequencer, Master Tracks Pro, ever since GVox bought the company from Passport, they introduced some major bugs and almost 10 years later they haven't fixed them. I still use an older, no longer available version of MTPro and am looking for a good alternative. I prefer to sequence in a MIDI only environment with menu options uncluttered by audio options (and no menus and sub menus and sub-sub menus). Then when it's time for Audio work I like to import the sequence into PTPro and work with everything there. For me it gets the work done faster - of course, as always YMMV.

I've done some contract style writing for other auto-accompaniment programs, and from the view of a style author, BiaB is the greatest auto-accompaniment program available today. The output is more musical than the competition, and isn't that what it's all about?

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