Originally Posted By: Masi
What could also help if PGmusic invites some of the veterans for a closed beta. I have the impression that the software is only tested in-house. Input from the outside may improve the situation. Though I should add that also some musicians should be invited to test that have no experience with BiaB. The old-timers are used to the tridden pathes. Fresh input is also a good ingredient in an ever changing world/market.


All of this has been going on using veteran as well as nooby testers for as long as I've been on the forum. You've been invited to join the Pre Release Testing Forum so join the fun.

My comments and prediction when the plugin was first released was first, it wasn't ready for prime time and it still isn't and second, people will expect the plugin to basically duplicate the full program and not be Biab Lite. Peter replied the plugin was never intended to have all the Biab functions. It's function is to allow you to create tracks directly inside your DAW not to be the full program as a plugin. This is exactly what the plugin video demonstrates. He took an existing song in his DAW and added some Biab tracks along with some multiriffs. For that it works great.

If someone wants to use a full Biab arrangement as a starting point inside their DAW, they start that in Biab as normal then they can easily drag the whole thing from Biab to the DAW as Noel described. It was then asked if I do that then what do I need the plugin for? My answer to that is exactly, you don't! I asked that same question when the plugin was first released. We already have the Drop Station and if the plugin can't duplicate a major portion of Biab functions then who needs it? Peter's answer was what the vid shows. Add some Biab tracks to an existing song.

I can see the potential but it needs so much to fulfill that potential. The expectation users have is to be able to make their favorite DAW act like Biab by using the plugin and of course they think that means the entire program. Biab as a plugin! How cool is that? I agree, that would be a big deal. To be fair, that's not what PG promised, users just assumed that's what the plugin would do.

The plugin does do what they say it does and it could be this is as far as it goes with the normal bug fixes and such but no major revisions. We'll see.

Bob

Last edited by jazzmammal; 01/05/20 07:36 AM.
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