Thanks, everyone, for answering my question---especially Jim Fogle, Guitarhacker, and floyd jane for going into such detail with your answers. I apologize for not responding much sooner to your answers, but shortly after I posted my question, I had a mental health crisis in my family to deal with that dragged on for months and completely ruined my plans for the rest of 2018. It wasn't until last month that I finally started to rebound enough to revisit this issue. After reading over everyone's answers again, I decided to take Jim Fogle's advice and purchase the ProPak edition of BiaB with the intent of upgrading at a later date once I became comfortable with the program and its amazing features. This will take me a while because I currently don't have much free time available to use the program. But I'm thankful for the time I do have and look forward to learning how to make the most of BiaB with my songs.

Speaking of which, in the last week or so that I've had enough time to check out all the style demos in the ProPak edition, I found a couple of styles for two of my songs. BiaB's arrangement for one of my songs turned out really well, so I'm planning to post a link to that arrangement in the User Showcase forum in the next day or two. Keep an eye out for it. Thanks again for all your answers to my question!


Tom Levan (pronounced La-VAN)
BiaB 2024 Win UltraPAK Build 1109, Xtra Style PAKs 1-11, RB 2024, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, Intel Q9650 3 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD & 2 TB HDD, Tracktion 6 & 7 (freebies), Cakewalk, Audacity, MuseScore 2.1 & 3.4, Synthesizer V