I'm not sure that Biab can do most current styles. Most modern music is heavily produced inside a DAW. It's all production, not live players laying down tracks.

The DAW of choice seems to be Ableton Live. I watched the complete two hour vid of Live 9's introduction some time ago. It's an amazing program but I had a real problem having to hear stuff that I couldn't stand listening to but I managed to get through it. I'm not going to list all the different things it can do, someone can find plenty of Ableton vids if they want. What I can say is watching that vid showed me where the current music scene really is. After watching a lot of other Ableton vids it seems like everybody trying to make music who's under 30 is using it.

My point is other than modern country, I'm not sure how Biab can help with a lot of modern music. There's no defined song structure to start. No AABA or AABBC or anything like that. There is little musicianship on most modern recordings, no solos, no hot rhythm sections, horn lines, none of that.

Here's the current Billboard Top 40 pop songs:

https://www.billboard.com/charts/pop-songs

I just listened to first 5, I will listen to all of them over the next few days just out of curiosity. What I hear is heavily produced beat tracks or beatz and bass. If PGM were to create a project for this I guess the thing to do is to hire some well known producers to come up with beatz RT's in whatever different styles they deem appropriate. Other than that, what's in these songs musically? Very little. One has some very basic piano chords going on, one does have some decent guitar backing. There is no live bass, no live drums, no real instruments being played by real players. All the very limited instrument parts are easily created using loops or samples in Ableton.

Maybe Biab could give young folks a whole tool kit of electronic beatz and minimalist rhythm parts. Of course all that has already been created over the last 20 years for Abelton users but Biab could do it too I guess.

Personally, I think the kids would feel Biab is way late to the party and go ehhh. Part of the problem is if a young person actually bought Biab for this and wanted to find some biab songs in the modern pop style and did a web search. What would they find? Thousands of old fart songs that are 50-70 years old. I can't imagine anything that would be a bigger turn off to a 28 year old than that.

Bob

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