Originally Posted By: David Snyder
Fellow BIABers,

I am seeing a lot of questions about using Band in a Box if you are a beginner being asked over and over, and I wonder if there could be or should a forum (Like OFF TOPIC) dedicated solely to Band in a Box for Beginners--instead of developing a "Band in a Box Lite" program.

Coming from a musical background some stuff seems intuitive to me, but I can see how it might be nerve-wracking for people with no musical training.

I do think that some of the tutorial videos move a little fast, and the mouse disappears from the screen before you can figure out what just happened. They just need to be SLOWED DOWN a bit in the future, for beginners. The content is still good.


ABSOLUTELY GREAT IDEA! And thank you for validating that many of us here don't have the level of musical training, as well as technical understanding that so much of the forum content speaks to.

And, yes, I find the Help and Videos often skip right over important instructions to get from the beginning to the end. Sometimes they seem to start 5 steps in, or in the middle breeze over a few.

Recognizing it would be lengthy to always, truly go step by step for everything in Help/videos, if we had a forum of our own, we could not only ask questions with no concerns about showing our ignorance, but perhaps be able to identify spots in the videos where we think a step was missed, and perhaps one of the great folks at PGM could look at it.

The only rule would be "Ask. All questions are welcome in this forum."

When I first got BIAB, I asked questions and 99% of the responders were fantastic and patient. Then there was that one guy... "Look it up in Help," "That was covered in previous threads," or "Go watch the videos." That's exactly what keeps some folks from participating in any kind of open forum.

I hope PGM will consider it.

Andy

BIAB 2017 Ultra
Windows 8 and 10
Scarlet 18i8
Reaper and Mixpad