Many thanks to you guys for reading through my fairly wordy posts and for doing your best to try and help me come to the right decision over which version of BIAB to purchase. I really appreciate it.

Unfortunately, I'm still considering which version to go for, or whether just to stick with what I already have. It's not so much the cost that is the issue, but weighing up whether my expected use of the product is going to justify the cost.

Just to clarify a few things. I currently have BIAB 2008 Ultra and it is absolutely fine for testing different styles for my songs. There are 1733 to choose from.
However, only the Realdrums (and maybe the odd bass or pad sound) are ever really of good enough quality to use in my recordings.
This is not really a problem for me though, because I play guitars, bass, and keyboards, and I have quite a rich collection of instruments in which to make my music with.

The fact that I'm new to the forum should be an indication that I was not previously interested or even aware of the huge strides that PG Music have made in developing their software since 2008, and it was only by chance that I saw their video ad for BIAB 2017 on Facebook.
Like many of you guys, I was stunned to hear real musicians playing in so many different styles in the latest version, and it sparked me into finding out more.
It got me thinking that I could maybe use an occasional extra instrument to enhance and expand my sound.
What I'm not interested in is flooding my recordings with amazing instrumental solos from BIAB and then my music ends up sounding like one of the BIAB demos (as impressive as they are).

I currently record my music, one track at a time, onto a Zoom R16 digital studio which is capable of linear PCM recordings (WAV type) at 16/24-bit and 44.1-kHz sampling rate.
These are transferred to Audacity on my Windows PC where I do my editing, sound processing and final mixing. The final track can then be saved as a 16 or 32 bit wav, mp3 or Flac.

In conclusion, I believe that in order to make it worthwhile me upgrading to BIAB 2017, I would ideally like to have as wide a choice of musical styles as possible to choose from (as I have now), which means that I would probably be looking at the UltraPlus PAK.
Paying more for the Everything PAK is unnecessary because I don't need the video tutorials or the Midi songs and lessons, and on reflection, I probably don't need the Audiophile version after all.

I can't comment on Realband other than to say that it looks impressive in the demos and I would be interested in trying it out. However, there are many other features of BIAB that I'm not interested in using, but I do appreciate why there can't be such a thing as a tailor-made version.

Last edited by Andyman; 03/12/17 01:35 PM.
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