I thought BiaB might save me time.

I had been doing mostly MIDI arrangements of my tunes since the advent of MIDI.

I got the MegaPAK in 1999, I think. Along with GigaSampler (the forerunner of the now-defunct GigaStudio) I was able
to construct arrangements at relative light speed.


I totally underestimated how BiaB would impact my musical (creative) life.


Biggest surprise:

"How easily I could get (had gotten) into a rut."

Typically, I'd begin with the way I originally imagined the tune / song and try to match it with BiaB. (I still do that.)
My breakthrough came one day when I wasn't completely satisfied with the results, and listened to what I had come up with through all the styles, even sometimes with different time signatures.

I was amazed at some of the results (most sounded terrible).

What resulted was a creative explosion for me.

Today, over 20 years later, I still regard

1. GigaStudio 4
and
2. BiaB

as the two greatest pieces of music software I've ever purchased (I started in the 1980's.)