Agreed, BiaB is a very non-standard software implementation.

In the old days, it was clearly a cut-price software, sold through a mail-order catalog that was poorly printed on oddly-folded paper. It wasn't pretentious. It's main selling point was that it was unique, and it did it's job fairly well.

Those are still BiaB's main selling points, and although the program has matured quite a bit over the years, the recent uneven implementation of RealBand makes me wonder if PB Music will ever really "grow up" in their software development methodology.

As I see it, BiaB is still the best at what it does so we keep shelling out the $ for it year after year. Now that PG Music has the RealTracks cash cow to bring in upgrades, I seriously wonder if they will put any more effort into making the UI more consistent.


Scott Emery