PG Music Home Forums General Discussion Beginners Forum A few noob questions on BIAB.

Rusty, you're not the first noob to come on these forums with a lot of recording experience and start opining in detailed long posts what's wrong with these programs and offering suggestions. What you're missing is you're speaking to some in this thread who have been beta testers for years, some over 10 years. We know all this, it's been talked to death already especially the idea of merging the two programs together. Several years ago there is a HUGE thread about that very subject. Detailed arguments for and against.

Here's what you don't know. Real Band is not simply another version of Biab. RB is a version of Power Tracks Pro Audio which is nothing but a simple basic DAW. It's a completely separate program with different developers. Way back PG dropped a bombshell by having Power Tracks able to generate a Real Drum track. There were no Real Tracks yet. Considering how lame midi drums can sound this was incredible. Later they added other Biab functions to PT and created a new program called Real Band. Here's the deal, RB can open a Biab file but it cannot save in Biab format. That has been requested for years now and it's assumed it's just not possible because PT was NEVER designed to be another version of Biab, it's its own discrete program. That means your idea of having those buttons to switch back and forth and do edits in both programs is useless.

We're not diehards Rusty, we're just very experienced users who know the history of this development. You're like a new guy who was just hired at a company and is attending his first meeting. The new guy is going to expound for hours about what they've been doing wrong for years and start talking about all these great ideas he's got to fix it? In your first meeting in front of people who've been working on that stuff for years?

First of all we users are not the ones who make any decisions at all. PG does that. PG stands for Peter Gannon and he will post here once in a while. The forum etiquette is to put your suggestions and comments on how to fix stuff into the Wishlist Forum. That's where the developers look and they actually do add things based on some of those suggestions.

But hey, this is an open forum for free discussion so knock yourself out and have fun. Just don't expect a lot of action.

Bob