Originally Posted By: Angelomusic
Hi all ! smile

After reading many posts here I am having those thoughts : BIAB is an awesome software if what you want is to jam, practice, work on your improvation skills or play for fun. For this BIAB is probably the best software on the market.

But if you intend to compose and record it seems that BIAB has too many bugs and issues. I have been reading plenty of posts pointing out bugs and problems when it comes to that.

The interface is ok if you intend to use it for jamming/practicing purpose but when it comes to go deeper I feel like the interface becomes clumsy and overly complicated.

This makes me think that BIAB which at first was intended to allow musicians to play and jam has become too ambitious, adding too many features to recording/producing/composing purposes and that the interface now is showing its limitations. I do feel like that in order to become a great software for those purposes BIAB would have to rethink totally its software.

What do you think people ? I'm hoping to get honest views about it (we all love BIAB but being honest is what can makes BIAB that we love improve and go to the next level).

Thanks for reading smile


I compose backing tracks for recording in my DAW with no problems I take MIDI, RTs and/or RDs into Studio One Pro and do all of my work there. This is where I think some people get into trouble. BiaB is not a DAW and nor should it be. It is an accompaniment program. It will generate backing tracks. IMHO recording, notation, and all the other extras were put in for experimentation and not for a final product. IMHO PGMusic should have left things like that out as there are far better programs that do those functions.

I agree that the menus should be revamped as well as other improvements made like different time signatures, adding chords on the eight note, etc. Improvements like these would make BiaB more musician friendly IMHO.

As for newer users, I am for anything that would increase PGMusic's fan base. Things like streamlining the GUI, having a lot more hip hop, rap, house RTs and RDs, etc. I am an old phart but some of those hip hop, rap, etc rhythms could be used in contemporary jazz. As I have said many time these genres are not set in stone and cross pollination can create some very interesting backing tracks.

YMMV

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