I believe the culprit of misunderstanding is that you are expressing your point of view basing on workflow that you are familiar and comfortable with, not taking in the account that there are many other interesting (and some would argue better) approaches in the wild.
In the wild what? Of course I described what I'm familiar with. How did I become familiar with it in the first place? Because that's how Biab WORKS. It's in the manual and Help files man, I didn't just think it up.
What you're talking about goes here
Wishlist You can post all the suggestions you want there and the developers will read them. Who cares what we think in this thread, it's the developers who matter not us. If you really care then go there and post.
People have gotten on me about gently chastising noob's for posting stuff in the wrong forum when the rules of each individual forum are clearly spelled out in the FAQ at the top. I actually read those FAQ's years ago before I wrote my first post.
I know what you're thinking. If that's the case why hasn't anybody said anything until now? Well I used to but too many long time regulars including some beta testers just start replying and answering questions anyway, that's why. It's like what's the point of the FAQ's if even long time regulars ignore them? I gave up and joined in but now I'm telling you about it because this is getting ridiculous.
This is a perfect example of why things should be in the correct forums. People interested in comments about what's wrong with these programs and discussions about possible fixes are not going to be looking in the Beginners forum.
What do you think a beginners forum is for? Is it a forum for you to go on and on about all the things you don't like about the program, how it's all old code and should be rewritten? Stupid me, I think a beginners forum is for a beginner who's having trouble with the basics like how to get the program to make sound and how to enter a chord and hit Play. Illogical, I know. If only they had another forum for more advanced topics. Oh, they do it's the Band in a Box for Windows forum! Wow, what a concept.
Oh btw, here is the long thread about why isn't Biab 64 bit and on the first page is Peters answer about that which I mentioned earlier
64 bit Bob