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Joined: Dec 2017
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Yes, I had a dream this night… about the next version of BIAB. And in my dreams, I was able to….
1 - Export multi drums as separate tracks
2 - Add any number of tracks I want in the mixer (why 7 by the way? why not 5 or 10? Is it because 7 is supposed to be a magical number?)
3 - Insert blank measures at the beginning of a song
4 - Regenerate only parts of a track and/or specific tracks instead of regenerating the whole song with all tracks
5 - Use the « force to simpler » function only on parts of a track and/or on specific tracks instead of the whole song… why not creating a « spare » function ? In order to easily add space to a song (for exemple to create a « breakdown » chorus before a « climax » chorus at the end of a song)
6 - Create fills at any place in my song and with any track : let’s say I want a drum fill at measure 4 just before the drum beat starts, then I put my cursor where I want it to start, I call this function, a pop up window appears, on which I can define the instrument and the fill’s lenght
7 - Create a tempo map… as you know, in real life a song’s tempo varies throughout the whole song.
8 - The last but definitely not the least : If I want to improve the connexion between two chords, I’d like to be able to select this specific zone on a track (few beats or even few measures) and toggle the different possibilities. (Otherwise I need to export the track to a real DAW and manually modifie this zone, cutting, pasting from an area to another…). Yes, I know the « multi riff » function, but it’s not the same thing.
I’m sure that for some of my requests, other users use « tricks ». For exemple, the Fill In request : I can « hold » drums on beat 1 & 2 and then get back to normal on beat 3&4, but that’s not a fill in.
At the very end of my dream, I won 100 millions euros at the « Euro Millions » lottery… and… just before buying PG Music in order to make BIAB what I want it to be … I woke up.
Pffff…
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Might be time to take your items to the Wish List. I don't think they can help with the bit immediately before you woke up though 
BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.
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No 4 is a regular Wish List one. It IS available in RealBand but I'd also like to be able to do it 'on the fly' in BB whilst creating my arrangement in the first place.
Ian
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DonCarlos
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Hm I have a similar dream regularly for the MAC version :-)
1) For example, writing notes in editing would be just as effective as, for example, Guitar Pro, MuseScore, Sibelius .. Just be inspired
2) So that at least when printing or after freezing, chord diagrams can be displayed similarly to all music applications
3) To allow the user to define keyboard shortcuts, eg for deleting or correcting a note in note editing mode. Today it is necessary via the context menu.
4) Because I'm Czech and we have those weird letters with hooks in the alphabet. So that BIAB respects them in all places, especially in file names and lyrics
5) So that printing notes from LeadSheet is not a job for the killer, but allows you to visually format the final form of the sheet music. Today I prefer to export to MuseScore or Sibelia and I will only print the score there
6) Be able to enter fingering and thus notes in the melody and solois track by writing in tablature, on specific strings and frets as is usual in tabulation programs such as Guitar Pro or Tabledit. For example, through a virtual guitar fingerboard or other stringed instrument.
7) In short, if at times the colleagues in PG were inspired by the competition and maybe came up with another more perfect way, such as dictation, as we write SMS messages today. For example, I would say tablature
"E 0 2 3 4" and the notes on the string E (e, fis, g, gis) would be written :-).
8) I know that BIAB has been around for about 30 years and in some places it is quite visible. Even so, I love it, and I just have a problem explaining it to new users who are used to other standards from other music programs, and I have to say that unfortunately it discourages some from buying it.
9) For most users in our country in the Czech Republic, BIAB is a relatively expensive program, which due to the changes is mainly expensive annual UPDATE and UPGRADE, although it does not bring new features for the user from the point of view of the user. Many of them told me that with the same content, they would only need to upgrade the basic application and not always upgrade the most expensive package they bought at the beginning.
Despite the above BIAB I only love these dreams of me, sometimes (about 10 times a day) when using circles over my head.
I hope I will not be completely crucified and dishonored :-) Sorry for the bad English, it's probably Google Translator's fault
Karel Jacko alias Don Carlos - Czech Republic Dealer PG Music, Inc - +420 604 111 102, +420 602 561 567 mobil - Band Leader Groups Jazz za Bukem and Hot Jazz Sutrs; - BIAB 2020 Win10; BIAB 2019 MAC; - Roland GK-3 Divided Pickup (Guitar and Bass); Roland GR-20 Guitar Synth; - MOTU UltraLite mk3 (Firewire); Fishman Tripleplay - MacBookPro 13 with touchbar 2018, Wiki BIAB czech support page wiki.zabukem.eu
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