< BIAB 2020, RealTracks and modern music styles - good fit?> Absolutely.. No question...

BUT.... there's a rub

JohnJohnJohn is correct in his post too. BIAB is exceptional generating country, classic country, Solo's, Jazz, funk, RnB, Soul, Rock, Classic Rock, Bluegrass, melody's and much, much more where BIAB targets certain genres and time periods. Such music is gold to the modern music scene but not exactly for our generated songs. The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 808, is a drum machine manufactured by the Roland Corporation between 1980 and 1983 and is heard in nearly every top 40 song you'll hear or stream today. The value of BIAB to modern artists lies not in the songs created, but rather the sounds and varied instruments that are available.

BIAB's midi capabilities are also valuable to modern artists because modern music is full of midi.

BIAB has thousands of instruments playing in thousands of different styles and thousands of hours of pristine audio to be sampled and looped. BIAB even has an 808 loop!

BIAB can generate something modern as easy as any classic genre it was designed for... However, it may only be two beats sampled from a RealDrum in a RealStyle.

Because so much of this modern music is composed and generated from various synths is the real rub. Producers are also pulling samples and loops from expensive libraries rather than taking time to search out sounds and construct their own. Creating a library from scratch is exhaustive and tedious. That being said, BIAB is a gold mine for those that want to go down that exhaustive and tedious path.

I totally agree with Johnjohnjohn that "I think the answer is you can produce any kind of music with BIAB but it may take more work, creativity, etc. to do it!" and likely more work than hobbyists and older generation people that don't derive any commercial income from composing music.

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