Originally Posted By: Noel96
Hi zero,

I don't find it a labyrinth at all.

I use the program for songwriting and it is brilliant. There's nothing else around that even comes close to the versatility that BIAB offers me in relation to composing a song and developing an arrangement.

When I start to look at producing the arrangement, I then move to programs that offer production flexibility in the same way that BIAB offers songwriting/arranging flexibility.

Just my tuppence worth.

Regards,
Noel


First off I respect this point of view BIAB has a wide user base for differing needs. IMO if you use BIAB to knock together a few chords, its very easy, and much functionality is at hand for even a novice. There is a long list of stuff that could be a lot better, and many things have been on the wish list for years. Personally I don't think that RB will ever be a DAW, like the big boys, so I don't see a need for a separate program. If you are going to export to a DAW you would not export to RB and then to Sonar/Cubase/Logic etc..

Every time you leave a program, then you loose its functionality. It can become difficult when actively working on a program to find you need to jump around through tunnels. This is why I feel that the best of BIAB should be integrated with the best of RB and their be one package instead of two. Because I also believe that most features need to be revised and improved, I think the GUI should be totally rewritten and a new product launched. Every year PG take a lot of Money from us, and sure the real tracks are great, but product development is meagre and shaky, probably because of vast acres of legacy code - I guess. Recently we have lost the ability to customise the GUI menus, been told we were getting bonus tracks which we already had, and the new layers don't save/hide properly, I also understand the XML is proving problematic (from threads). There is a lot to love, but I don't think this update is good. I still want record to be easy and in house - not in windows.

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