"its all personal preference..."

Absolutely and I'm fine with that. I use RealBand, Audacity and Studio One Pro as needed and have cakewalk and Ableton Live and Pro-Tools if I want them. I also have several proprietary DAW's on hardware multi track recorders but that wasn't what the question was about. I'm happy we're able to have the discussion about BIAB. I think the discussion is important and relevant to beginners more so than intermediate and advanced users. The wish list forum has plenty of requests from experienced users for tasks that are already easy and accessible in BIAB but they never learned how to do them in BIAB and also they have no interest to learn. They already know how to do it in RealBand, Reaper, or some other DAW but for whatever reason, they want the function in BIAB accessible by a button.

Any user experienced with hardware multi track recorders can quickly learn to complete a project in BIAB from start to finish and the result will be indistinguishable between the BIAB product and the hardware device. Using BIAB as a digital multi track recorder is much more powerful than any of the stand alone hardware units. Commercial releases are still being done daily on hardware digital multi track recorders and the same is possible with BIAB. That being said, I've not seen a single person do one yet and I think some that would try maybe are being swayed by experienced users indicating a task can't be done or they need to expand their workflow into a DAW to do it right rather than use BIAB. There have been three separate threads that have evolved along these lines in just the past few weeks. I no longer crusade for the power of BIAB but think it's only fair that users should be able to determine their workflow personal preferences with accurate information rather than redirection toward the popular pathway using incorrect information.


Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 06/05/20 07:26 AM.
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