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Pipeline,

I felt genuine anguish reading this.

The time, effort, and sheer ingenuity you poured into this is immediately evident, and you deserve accolade upon accolade for it.

There's no conceivable reason you should be beating yourself up. You basically carried this whole thing on your shoulders. If BiaB had the audience, userbase, and forum participation of the type you have with Cockos Reaper, the sky would be the limit.

There are so many suggestions I have for the plugin, and its integration with yours, but I keep quite because I know that there is such a small incentive with the current userbase being what it is, instead of what it should be. And that will probably never happen, because, IMHO, BiaB is not being used the way that 95 percent of the active music producing community worldwide--professional, amateur, and hobbyist alike [although, tbf, I have over time come to agree with those in these forums who asserted that BiaB was a secret weapon employed by many a professional chart-topping producer).

It's funny. When I originally discovered BiaB, I was simply searching the internet for something to generate backing tracks to play guitar and bass along to. When I initially bought the entry-level version, I remember thinking that $140 (I think that's what cost then...) was expensive for just something to jam along with, but whatever. I enjoyed the program so much that I upgraded to the full version and kinda balked at the price, but whatever. I also upgrade every year--pretty much for the features, and used to think that was expensive as well.

A few years have passed since my initial purchase, and I have been getting much more into the production side of things with MIDI, VSTs, DAWs, and all that. And what I've discovered is that BiaB--at least in it's entry level version, is pennies compared to the amount of cash forked out by millions of users for plugins, software, and sample packs the majority of which may get used a couple times (if that). Hell, people will pay upwards of $200 for a freaking compressor plugin when they already have 2 dozen.

The fact that BiaB does not have millions of users (yes, millions!), used to astonish me--especially because there is nothing like it around.

I realize now what the issue is, and PG Music can only be blamed up to a point, because the program and its users (and, more importantly, USES) have become a closed loop of sorts.

For a dozen reasons I'm not gonna even bother going into now, I think that the plugin, with yours, along with a few enhancements can change absolutely everything. EVERYTHING!!!

I admit, when the plugin came out last year I thought it was pretty much pointless because I would simply export individual fragments/track sections into Reaper as needed. But now I realize that it is capable of so much more. Sooooooo much.

So please keep your chin up, Pipeline, and be proud of all you've accomplished.