Originally Posted By: ZeroZero
I just checked out the record function again, I was hoping their might be some way of simply recording. If its a MIDI recording then it can be a soloist or a melody recording, but if its an audio recording apparently not. Set recording levels and you get dumped out of the program into Windows. Click ANYWHERE in the box (not on the icon in the corner) and inexplicably, a video is loaded into Windows explorer.

This video first teaches you how to use windows '8/7/vista' then how to use a 'very common audio device' Realtek Audio Manager which it then proceeds to explain (no I am not making this up!4 how to use a realtek device. Enough to confuse any newbie.

Why not actually handle recording in app like other programs?

Further investigation as to how to record Audio brings up the helpful Audio settings panel. Like many other boxes in BIAB be careful where you click as clicking anywhere in the bottom half is liable to tick or untick a box even if you are not hovering over a box. I nearly clicked "Mixer requires keystrokes to open Record Panel"

Apparently this tick box is for windows 95 users! Perhaps the last time the code was revised.

"If you are running Windows 95, check to allow access to the Record Control from Band-in-a-Box. Do not check if using Windows 98 or greater."

Even after taking the ferret through this particular labrinth, if an audio recording is successful, there is no visual representation in the GUI, no layer to see. Only in the Audio edit window can you see something, but then of course you cant see the song or chords.

No, there is no ability to edit in the main gui, there is no ability to cut and paste, no ability to record multiple takes.

I think PG think 'this will do' and since windows 95 - years ago, have seen no urgent need to revise or improve this essential feature.
Recording should be easy, in house, and with proper VISUAL feedback in the main gui. Retakes and cutting and pasting between take should be easy.

Why is there only an ability to record MIDI as a 'soloist' or as a 'melody'. Why not an audio recording of a melody or solo? Its the same answer as why a banjo or violin was a guitar for years. No one has bothered to improve the gui.

I think its legacy coding that they have not bothered to improve since Windows 95 days - 21 years ago. It will do as it is.

It does not matter that any new user would naturally think that an audio recording can be a melody, or a solo. It 'will do' like this.

Why is the Audio track the only track that can be hidden in the mixer? Because it will do like this.

There are examples everywhere of this attitude.

Ferret in a labrinth, that's my experience

Z

You are correct of course but I do not hold much hope for solutions to the things you are describing. My advice to any newbie would be to use BIAB to generate instrument tracks that follow your song's chord progressions & tempo, export them dry & centered and then do all of your production in your modern DAW software. Don't bother with any feature that does not directly aid you in getting those instrument tracks exported!