To answer your specific question VT, I don't use real tracks. I tried it, admittedly a while ago, I found it 'crash city' and I could not see a point in it given that I have used Cubase since its inception on a PC. I don't want a third application stepped into the equation if I were to go down this route.

I am really not a fan of the "go and use another application" answer for BIAB. I didn't like the "go you JBridge solution for BIAB. Its not a clean and proper solution. I can see it has merit for some, but not for me. As a programmer I would never use this philosophy, better to stay in app where you can.

I have never saw the point of cleaving the program down the middle in the first place RB/BIAB. I realise these views are contentious, I have been flamed before, I realise there are other perspectives which are also valid, but that's my view.

For me, BIAB record the user. I expect ANY accompaniment tool to do this, like a expect a fish shop to sell fish.

BIAB makes a total mess of this. Not only can you NOT hear your chosen instrument before the track starts, you DON'T get the ability to record a number of takes, you also have to learn some concept of recording a track "thru" to somewhere else like a melody or soloist (why not simnply a "user" track?). Even after recording its very cumbersome to do any editing. You do have a button misleadingly called "sequencer" but where this leads you is nobody's business. Because of this I am asked to go and learn another program and sit on two stools? RB AND BIAB?

For me that is NOT a intuitive or user friendly experience. Yes, I could export it all, or I could use RealBand and BIAB, or my own sequencer. But why not stay put in BIAB?


The way PG program interfaces is very idiosyncratic. OK, so some of their work is genius stuff, highly creative, but...... When it comes ot an interface the overriding philosophy is t make the user experience as intuitive as possible. This means providing the functions that a user is familiar with from their past experiences with applications, not having bits and pieces of this and that represented in novel ways.

I would even go further. IF BAIB was sorted out properly, I would love an ability to record EVERY take, AND access it, cut and paste it, see it as audio, within ONE app. This is where I think that BIAB should have at least some features of a sequncer - call RB the sequencer if you will...

"User Track" idea:

Load your instrument/VST, press record (or have it set to always on in prefs) Play. When your finished, get an offer to keep or delete takes and chorus's. If you keep takes go into a proper sequencer view and choose takes. This view to have the ability to cut and paste sections, drag the best take to the top, etc.

I do realise RB can do some of this, but I would expect BIAB to be able to handle recording of one track - well- too. Especially if the code is written and used in another in house application (64 bit hopefully).

Its just good basic design


Regards to All smile

Z

Last edited by ZeroZero; 04/03/15 09:42 PM.
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