Originally Posted By: jazzmammal
Originally Posted By: Tony Wright
Do we all have to become computer geeks in order to use their product?


The answer is a resounding YES and I've said it for years. This problem is all about your computer Tony. As well known apps become more complex your hardware has to move forward accordingly. I do not have this problem and my machine is not the latest or greatest but I have a Geekbench score of 7850 which is still fairly strong but a new i7 machine with 16 gigs of ram can score in the 13-15K range. When it comes to digital audio newer and faster is always better.

(Sorry in advance for my English...)
I must admit that I wasn't very excited with bbw2016, for one basic reason: after reading the new features list it seemed that v2016 didn't solve most of the bugs and oddities that have been there for years.

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=316975&page=1

But after a few days, and after seeing some videos and hearing the new (excellent) realtracks I decided to upgrade again, as every year. After all, new realtracks are always welcome, a few new features seemed interesting to me, and last but not least I really wanted to continue supporting a product from I've learned so much as a musician. So I bought the upgrade, installed BIAB version and started to explore it.

The first thing I wanted to check was the new Section Text Layer on the main chord window, a feature that I've been waiting for years. I stopped using BIAB as a notation program because it's many glitches in the notation area, and being able to easily entering a section text from the main windows was something that I have waited for years (entering section text from the notation window is a nightmare, please just try it). First surprise: the section text entered from the main window is not interpreted as section text by BIAB, and thus not showed on the notation window nor exported in xml files. Just after two minutes using the program I found the first bug and I realized that this new feature was completely useless for me.
http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=47454&Number=323522#Post323522
But it's my fault.

Another important new feature to me was the ability of customize the number of columns in the new chord window, another basic feature that I've been waiting for years. Since half of the screen is occupied (in my computer) by enormous icons and a mixer that I don't use (but I can't get ride of) (!!!), my work space is very small, and I need a way of zooming in and out to show more or less chords when working on song's structures. After a few minutes trying to find that option, I just found that another bug in 2016 prevented me from accessing to that option:
http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=47455&Number=323533#Post323533
But it's my fault.

Well, I must admit that I was a little bit dissapointed at this point, but who cares, I really didn't want these small annoiances to put an end to the excitement of the new version, so I started to exploring the new realtracks. They sounded great, yes, but after a couple of minutes hearing them I noticed some audio and video and video oddities that weren't there in v.2015:
http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=323567#Post323567
But it's my fault.

Then a new free update appeared, which seemed to solve several of these bugs. I downloaded it and installed it, but after that I couldn't launch the program at all because a runtime error because a fault of mine. I then deleted bbw.exe and copied and renamed the last backup of the executable file (automatically saved by the installation program under the bb2016_backup, but it didn't worked, because that exe file wasn't v.2016, but v.2015. That was also my fault...



Last edited by Cerio; 12/11/15 12:38 PM.
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