Gary,

Have you seen Keyboard recently? I haven't seen it at Borders for a long time. EM is about 1/8th of an inch thick. They are dying off due to lack of advertising. The Internet is taking over. Perhaps Peter should go on Twitter and Tweet..... My recent review of BiaB at www.cakewalknet.com has generated a bunch of email from people who are very interested in the program but are trying to get their heads around what BiaB does.

It would be wise for Peter and company to figure out how to better explain the program to those who love music and who play but are afraid of computers and software.That means a LOT of middle-aged and older men.(I wonder if Peter knows the median age of his users?) I sat down with a really good middle-aged musician last week who had bought BiaB on my recommendation. He was paralyzed. I coached him through the creation and rendering of a song and he was off and running.

You can get into BiaB for a reasonable price if you don't buy every RTrack set. A friend of mine bought the basic version over the winter and will buy the Country Pak soon. If you are only into one genre of music, you could buy just jazz, rock, or country.

I have used BiaB as part of my arranging and recording workflow since the mid-90s. RealDrums improved my last CD and I expect RTs will do the same for my next few. A major studio liked a fiddle track in a set of files I sent for a songwriter and never doubted I had recorded a fiddler.

Musical snobbery will always be with us. I just go about my work and forget about it. And I get other musicians to buy the program and I teach them how to use it. Hopefully, they will do the same.

Fred

Fred Grittner
2020 iMac, Sequoia 15.5, Logic Pro
https://fredgrittner.bandcamp.com