Hi guys.
I'm here from the current thread on the main Forum - Are real drums just not that good?
This thread has thrown up another example of a wonderful feature that Biab has, which presumably someone, sometime, puts lots of effort into developing and getting 'out there', but which is hardly noted in the support literature or the naming system at all, and, so far as I can gather, is therefore for practical purposes quite impossible for the user to access systematically.
In this case, it's the 'Live Drums' Midi potential. I can see from the thread that any user can use that to create their own styles. But the thread also seems to be saying that some of the supplied styles are made that way, but no-one can say which, or how you might find them. Even Mac is saying he 'can't remember'.

The last time I posted here, re back-up information about the demo song materials, it was much the same story.

We're caught in a bind here. Biab is the wonderful thing it is because it is not really a 'corporate' production. It's 'just growed' like Topsy. If it were Microsoft, it would have been recoded three or four times by now. I don't think any of us really expect that Dr Gannon and the team are going to sit down and say to each other "If we were starting today, how would we do it ?"
But what I think is more practically feasible is that PG commissions a couple of the really experienced guys to go through everything with a tooth comb, and catalogue what is there properly, possibly make some new recommendations re naming conventions, and in the end produce a spec and a user guide that will enable everyone to be aware of, and use if they wish, any and every given feature, including those that for the moment are half-forgotten and virtually undocumented.


Ian G.

Last edited by idgraham; 10/10/09 02:09 AM.
Late-developing enthusiast for jazz / blues. Principally pianist