Originally Posted By: jpettit
I want to say thanks for the great new features in 2014. My first reaction to the new GUI was… oh no they just polished the old vs. perhaps a completely new look.
But then I used it for a week and realized, it is much more usable, which was I believe was their goal. There is more room for simplifying but appreciate what they have done.

Things I really like:
1. Real-time style, RT, RD preview! Not only has this save a lot of time but I have finally discovered some very good styles from years past.
2. Toolbars by function (finally all those buttons makes a lot more sense now)
3. Mixer always shows. This is another time saver for someone who uses BAIB as a song writing tool
4. “Real string quartet” wins the “why on earth did they not do this years ago award!” Can you imagine if we got orchestra sections as RTs?
5. Drag now auto creates the correct wave file (Mono/stereo) yeah!
6. Drag zone has 4 options ( so I don’t have to remember control left shift elbow anymore smile )
7. Piano keyboard in a tab and per instrument (Now it is only there when you need it)
8. UserTracks (just testing so far, and working on a help video) but this has great potential for the customer base to expand BIAB inter-releases.

Issues still there/new: (all already reported to support)
1. Dragging a MIDI track still adds two bar count in. ( even with include 2 bar lead-in ) turned off in render page and preferences
2. Guitar Window always opens (collapsed) need to always stretch it out to see guitar neck. ( does not remember dimensions) This only happens on the 2nd screen
3. Sample tank MST frequently does not render to full song length. (drop as wave)
4. Normalize wave file setting does not appear to work if you are dropping separate tracks.
5. Very minor GUI error with solo button not turning yellow on initial solo of a track from header area.
Red = behavior still three

Wish they would have: (Feature Requests)
1. Added the ability to assign our own hot keys ( so we could match them up with the DAW we are using along side BIAB)
2. Tempo stamped the exported wave files to save time when dragging to DAW
3. Let us choose which icons and even icon bars to display with option for small icon/no text.
4. Added option to auto filter the RT and RT style picking windows based on the track your on ( i.e. bass , piano, guitar)
5. Made the “Play loop” button have a default like the new Styles Button I.E( play section)
6. Allow a modifier key on solo to solo more than one track together (tip the master mute will un-mute all muted tracks)
7. Made the start up screen (screen 2) remembered

Again Thanks


I was hoping these issue introduces in 2014 would have been fixed by now, but it has been 5 weeks seen we have seen an update.....
.... so I am guessing they moved on to Mac port.
Every one of these have been reported and confirmed by the developers and effect my workflow.

The BPM stamp in the file header would also greatly help as the DAW will not change the tempo correctly without the Tempo for the file being known. Since BIAB just wrote it it makes sense to mark the tempo in the file.

Thanks

Last edited by jpettit; 01/30/14 09:11 AM.
Studio One (latest version), Win 11 23H2 , i9 -10940X 3.3 GHz, 32GB Mem, a 4K 40" monitor, PreSonus Studio Live III Console as interface/controller. secondarily test on Reaper, Cakewalk, and S1 on Surface Pro 3 Win 10 (latest versions).