Okay, I should have mentioned this at the outset, so I'm mentioning it now. I'm still using BiaB v2017. I have v2019, but it does not play nice on my computer, and v2017 is just barely tolerable at that. Lots and lots of rice crispies. My laptop, which also has 2017, and which is a good deal slower than my desktop, with half the RAM, has no problems with 2017, however. So IF I upgrade to 2020, I'll probably have to make room for it on my laptop because I suspect that it won't work at all on my desktop.

Anyway, on to the topic:
Charlie, I'm not sure what you mean by "workaround," and it seems to me that what PGM might consider to be features might be viewed by others as limitations.

The piece I'm currently working on, which I began composing in BiaB, by the way, has 10 tracks:

Acoustic Bass
Drums
Electric Piano
Acoustic Piano
Guitar
Voice Oohs
Strings I
Strings II
Contrabass
Melody

Aside from the pianos and guitar, the strings parts and the voices are also polyphonic, having as many as four voices per track. I don't need to separate them out any further than I have. But if I were having to deal with tracks that were any more dense than these, well, that might just be a problem. What about balance, i.e., volume for each instrument? Separation? Rhythmic adjustments? EQ?

Even dealing within BiaB, I find it frustrating that I cannot edit any part but the melody or soloist. Seems to me that, if I can see the score for the other parts, I should dang well be able to edit them too. Well, I can see why that might not be the case for RealTracks, but what's PGM's excuse for MIDI parts not being editable?

Other than this, the limitations I'm facing is that, if I want to export parts to Cakewalk, it is indeed possible to export entire songs from BiaB, but then once in CW, I have to pick out the parts I want to use and discard the rest, cuz I have no need for three drum set and three basses, for example. And in a few cases, the parts are doubled, so I just discard the duplicates. But where it gets really tricky is if I want to bring something I've written in CW back into BiaB. I have to make sure that there are no more than six parts being imported and, worst of all, I've had trouble with BiaB doing what it's supposed to, and separating the individual parts out to distinct tracks. It tends to want to lump everything together into one track -- and it doesn't seem to matter if I go with MIDI type 0 or 1, either. So it can get frustrating.


Last edited by cooltouch; 01/06/20 02:37 PM.
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