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Why not just route the incoming MIDI to the melody or soloist track like a DAW would do? It's be so much less confusing.


Because BIAB is not a DAW; it's also used by many for live performance. Having the thru track allows you to have a melodist and soloist track already ready recorded while you play along. Sure, they could have done it differently, but that's the way they implemented WAAAYY back when and it's been that way ever since.

If they route input to the melody or soloist track, you still have to tell it where to go and what instruments to use. Just like when you move a track from the melody to soloist track, you still have to configure the soloist track. In RealBand, however, you just record to the track you want and you can copy one track to another with all settings intact. But BIAB isn't RealBand and vice versa.

If you want this behavior to change, you'll have to add it to the wishlist, but I like having the Thru track (once I understood it).

That being said, even with the current architecture, I like the idea of copying all the track settings over when you record a melody or soloist track, and I like the idea of being able to "copy" the melody track to the soloist track (and vice versa) with all settings/effects/etc intact. It think I'll head over to the wishlist now...

John

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