I think play from RAM has to be the way to go. In fact anything that can speed up generating real track parts significantly is just such a workflow enhancing thing - that efforts should go into that considerablyl. time is Monet and waiting around kills inspiration. period.

And because PG would control the API and protocol between the plugin and server ( BBM4 ) it means PG can do anything they like - and are not limited by following a 3rd party API ie ReWire.

I really thing the plugin + BBM4 ( or just BIAB ) combination should be where all the work goes into. So far I cannot see any reviewer for any magazine or pro-audio or "producer" or movie/media composer type blogs or vlogs giving any time to BIAB 2019. as it stands right now. Things simply aren't there in feature or workflow benefits to be a paradigm shifter.

But comes the time when this improves and the combination of a pro DAW becomes a fast and seamless and ***reliable*** combination this will really shake things up.

The whole drag and drop modus operandi that we've had for many years might have been a way to get BIAB real track parts into a DAW project - once one had finished an arrangement with certainty and sure nothing needed to change style or progression wise - but it locked us in.

Being able to stream audio from BBM4 or - as option BIAB standalone - but with data being saved in the DAW project - makes BIAB become a seamless part of the DAW itself. And that could really change things.

I had pestered PG to put a piano-roll editor into the Mac version for - well probably a decade now. It finally arrived - but frankly is just painful to use. And clearly - very clearly - a better route is to do such MIDi parts ( ie melody ) in a DAW itself. They (Ableton, Steinberg, Logic devs etc etc ) ve had decades to refine a decent GUI and sort out bugs.

I hope the PG team realise that the plugin isn't just a "nice to have" - something to placate a certain subset of users - but could unlock a huge new market- and more than that - make BIAB become a solid staple of modern music production in the same way Ableton and Native Instruments and Protool have been since the late 90s.

All of the technological effort should be going into this area.

Oh and along with cracking all the legion of bugs that still prevail.

Last edited by nonchai; 09/25/19 02:17 PM.
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