25. The Recording at relative tempo bug.
When recording audio using the new relative tempo feature, the resulting audio is completely out of sync.

26. The "Chord preview" problems.
The Chord preview feature works only when using the old MME drivers. Also, if you change your Audio drivers from ASIO to MME, the Chord preview won't work even when using MME drivers (you need to got to "Return to factory settings" to get that feature back). Lastly, Chord preview doesn't work on ACW, which probably is the most useful place where you could use that function.

27. The "Copy From...To..." bug.
Described here:
http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=20197&Number=132321#Post132321

28. The "Half-time RT don't follow changes in time signatures" bug
Described here (P1)
http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=19120&Number=123676#Post123676

29. The Audio Part issues.
If you right click on Audio -> Solo, all the tracks will be red, including the Master track (first oddity). If you now go to Master -> Unmute All, all the tracks will be normal now, but the Master will continue in red and everything will sound fine (second oddity). The Master will continue in red, no matter what yo do until you click again on Audio -> Mute (third oddity). If you mute the Audio track, it appears a check symbol on the menu. If you solo the Audio Track, there's no check symbol, no matter how many times you click on the menu (fourth oddity).

30. The "Yellow Melody even if there's no melody" bug.
If you create a new song using the "Melodist" and uncheck the "Generate Melody" option, the Melody track will be yellow even if there's no melody.

31. The "Overwrite solo" problems.
Currently the only possibility of partially generating Realtracks in BIAB (a much requested feature) is through the "Soloist", using the Custom Mode option. However, the results are nearly always unusable and unmusical, and the phrases are abruptly cutted off.


And last, but not least...

32. Inconsistency, redundancy and lack of connection between dialog boxes.
As with the menus, there's a lot of inconsistency and redundancy between many different dialog boxes in BIAB, due to the way the program has growth during these last years. For example, if you want to assign a Realtrack Soloist to the soloist track, you can:

a. Use the Realtracks picker window and choose the Soloist from there.
b. Use the Select Best Soloist picker window and choose the Soloist from there.
c. Use the Soloist picker window and choose the Soloist from there.
d. Use the "Band styles" windows and pick a real style with solist from there.
e. Use the Stylepicker window and pick a style with a real soloist from there.
f. Right click on the Soloist track and click on the "Choose Realtrack from Recently chosen" option.

All these dialogs do essentially the same (assign a realtrack to the soloist track), but all of them are dispersed over different places of the GUI, all of them have different options (for example, half time option is only available in the main "realtracks picker window"), different search methods, and worst of all, they are not connected in any way between them.

If this way of working is a confusing even for experienced users, try to imagine what a nightmare can be to understand all this "logic" for a newcomer. The GUI really, really, really, needs to be simplified!

Finally, I really don't want to sound all negative: I LOVE the program, I've always (and I'm still am) a fan, I can't express my gratitude enough to Peter and his team for the many hours I've enjoyed and learned with this program. I just wish that for 2016 some of these problems will be addressed, and that the development team will concentrate, instead of adding more and more features, on stability issues, consistence between old and new features, and on unifying / modernizing / simplify the GUI

Last edited by Cerio; 12/18/14 06:30 PM.
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