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I have used Biab for many years. At first just for practice, then for helping my students and then when gigging when the usual rythm section problems arose.
Fine, however we aquired a Roland BK7m about a year ago. When playing as a duo, we noticed that the Roland was replacing Biab more and more. Examining why this is, we decided it is because the Roland allows more flexibility when actually playing to an audience. One of the important features of playing live. The Roland follows the midi input of what is going down. Believe me that is a big help if things go off the rails a little. It occurs to me that Biab has just about everything already there for it to be able to once again become our section of choice except the obvious extra bit of software. It would be a bonus for us as it would allow us to lose one peice of kit. The way things are going at the moment, it is the laptop that is most likely to be releagated to the attic. I can't quite believe this feature, possibly as an add on with a simple at the front control panel (start/stop intro/ending ) with a large buttons, and maybe a programmed, if I hit this keyboard key, this happens option, isn't in the pipeline. Am I guessing wrongly or are PGM beavering away to bring biab to the forefront again?



I'm not sure exactly what live gigging issues you are trying to describe so I'll let those who gig with BIAB respond to those issues.

What I'm interested in is what "beavering away" means. It's not a phrase I'm familiar with. You seemed to use it as sort of an insult but in fact, beavers are highly intelligent and industrious mammals, so I don't get the epithet.

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Jim