Thanks all for your thoughts.

Originally Posted By: LtKojak
Originally Posted By: lingyai
Ok, thanks gentlemen. Not the news I wanted to hear, but it's what I needed to hear.

I think this is the last year I'll buy BIB then. It's a great program, but I'm suffering from upgrade / new features / new bugs fatigue. Call me a reactionary ...

It would be great if in the future new RTs are modular, and so can be used in any recent-ish version of BIB. Just like when you get an expansion pack for something like Addictive Drums or EZKeys, or new loops for Acid. These work in the old applications. Their business model is to sell the razor cheap(ish) and make money on the blades.

With PG, seems you have to buy the razor each time as well. This probably makes sense for PG, but doesn't work for me.

I've had some similar thoughts in the past and, as a matter of fact, didn't upgrade to 2015 from 2014.

I've upgraded to 2016, and I couldn't be happier with the new version. The new Real Tracks are a Godsend for what I play and the new Style Picker system makes everything SO MUCH SIMPLER AND FASTER that I can't believe nobody thought of it before!

Even if they're for free, just the new videos explaining the new features are worth every penny I gave for the upgrade.

Even being one grumpy old man that loves to have something to complain about, I just can't give anything short of two HUGE thumbs-up for BIAB 2016.

If you don't upgrade to 2016, it can only mean that you don't love yourself at all. Period.

HTH,




Yo, Kojak -- who loves ya baby? ;-)

Oh, I indeed love myself -- you'll have to trust me on that one. That in fact is behind my reluctance to tempt fate with yet another big change to my PC setup, of which BIB is an important part. Self-love involves the avoidance of pain ;-).

Seriously -- when you say you have no regrets, and rather only satisfaction, about upgrading, I believe you and sincerely wish you lots of fun with BIB 2016.

I hope the same for me, too, in fact; though I am more pensive....just been through this too many times over my 18 years of PC-based music making:

-- there's an upgrade ...

-- many users report smooth sailing ... many of them also generalize their experience, say "What could go wrong? Don't be such a scaredy-cat," ignoring the fact that ...

-- other users do have real problems (just look at the December posts here, not just in 2015, but going back years). Stuttering audio, app not launching, old projects not loading, whatever ... you can read as well as I can. Seems most problems get sorted eventually, but sometimes only after disruption and troubleshooting sessions. I guess those don't matter if someone values their time at 0.

-- invariably, the latter group of user includes me, because the good lord, when it comes to me, seems to have a slightly perverse sense of humor or something. And it's now grinding me down.

So barring something revolutionary in future releases, this will have to be my last purchase. I don't have a spare computer around to keep my old version of BIB on as a backup, as was suggested above. Even if I did, I question whether the disruption to workflow would make it the right move. Now I can drag and drop from BIB into Sonar. But if my "safe" copy of BIB were on another machine, there's the extra steps of transferring my wav files to an external disc, and then from there to the main music PC and into Sonar.

Tangent: can I install BIB 2016 alongside BIB 2014, or must I install BIB 2016 on top (overwriting) BIB 2014? Maybe worth it's own thread....


Last edited by lingyai; 12/15/15 02:58 PM.
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