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RE: Your Christmas wishes for BIAB 2021.

<< 1. in the stylepicker some style demoes assume net access.<<
but the problem is a lot of studios keep their studio computers off the net. like mine. for security reasons.
plz just include all demos of styles with the product. eg the usb drive. or with updates. >>
At one time, there was a download of demos available. I'm not sure when it may have last been updated but I recall it was a large download and would still provide off line users with a partial data base if it's still available at the PG Music Web site.

<< 2. BIAB song start.
when a user starts a new song i would like to see immediately a message pop up.
"where do you want all user exported tracks/content/midi's/drops in normal mode , and/or
when BIAB is plugged into a DAW TO GO ?"
and the user selects a folder. for me my song folder where also all my DAW recorded tracks go.
ie my central repository for the song. >>
BIAB does each of these options now whenever the user Saves or Saves As the song project. So by immediately saving a project after opening a new project, BIAB will generate a message prompting the user to designate a working folder for that project. In addition, according to the method the user chooses to save the project will determine whether BIAB uses a default name or a user generated name as it automatically saves and names exported audio files.

<< 3. 16 tracks. yes please. but note my wish for a test app so people with underpowered computers don't overload them. see my RB Wishlist.
also i would recommend a overload detector feature in case someone is trying to load too many plug ins into too many tracks etc possibly on an underpowered computer.
thus reporting to a user "sorry but BIAB (or RB or powertracks) is detecting a possible overload condition,
please use fewer tracks and/or plug ins".
whether the win api/programming environment allows for this i don't know.
if i remember heavy duty industrial apps often have this type of feature. so i'm sure it does.
it might forewarn of a possible crash situation. its just that if 16 tracks is implemented, and given the way
RT's work i suspect problems might arise for some users underpowered computers. >>
Here, you've made the best case I've seen for NOT implementing this often requested wish for additional BIAB Mixer Tracks. BIAB needs to remain usable to every customer and not just those that are power users or have high end expensive computer hardware.


The need for additional tracks is also somewhat of a myth because of the way RealTracks and audio files work within the BIAB Mixer aren't as ram CPU intensive as you think in regard to power. CPU's of 2008 vintage are powerful enough to generate RealTracks so there is little underpowered concern.

Except for the Audio Channel, BIAB Mixer Channels, Bass, Piano, Drums, Guitar, Strings, Melody and Soloist don't natively hold physical audio files. In fact, until a RealTrack is rendered, no physical audio file of that exact rendition of BIAB chosen audio RealTrack from that RealTrack physical audio file exists. It is a virtual track. The tracks hold data.

This function with understanding BIAB functions as a multi track recorder is a very powerful yet uncomplicated and not a CPU intensive combination that allows BIAB to work across the entire spectrum of Computers of low resource, older OS's to the most powerful computers on the market. Not having additional resource robbing visible tracks and also not extending generating time, BIAB uses preparatory algorithms and processes that allow users to create, UserTracks, Artist Performance Tracks, and for BIAB to convert and move audio files to these other seven BIAB Mixer Tracks so BIAB functions the same as a hardware multi track recorder while retaining all of BIAB's exclusive and proprietary software functions and techniques.

BIAB is just as unique and singular in comparison to hardware multi track recorders as it is to every DAW on the market. Nothing else can do what BIAB does, DAW or Hardware recorder. Think of it this way; Generating seven BIAB tracks and an Audio Track yields the exact same results as a live recording session with a Focusrite 18i20 utilizing all 8 inputs simultaneously.

What BIAB also does is provide 10 additional sub input channels per BIAB Mixer Channel to create custom instrument mixes of RealTracks using multiple methods of playback for each channel. Using these sub mixer tracks does not increase the generating power BIAB uses. They work equally as well on a 10 year old computer and OS as they do on new systems.

Simply applying decades old multi track recording principles and techniques allow a user to create first generation, no loss mix compilations of dozens of instruments the same quality and sound as if they were recorded on a 16 track, 24 track or even a 48 track physical recorder. The BIAB Mixer is capable of producing a total of 70 separate instruments in a single, first generation quality stereo audio file. While it's hard to imagine the need of 70 individual instruments, that's the upper single generation limit and the true power is not in the sum total, but how the user applies recording techniques to this total.

These sub tracks are a way the user can access BIAB pre audio track selection so that transitions, instrument change outs, solo beginnings and endings, cross fades, mutes and back to normal (unmute) functions can be programmed into the track generation rather than after the audio has been selected by the BIAB algorithm so that these events occur smoothly and correctly rather than the abrupt cut offs, incorrect chording's and such that happens when using Bar Settings.

Another plus is having the multi track technique of Bouncing Tracks exponentially expands the track count even more. Because this bouncing process today is digital rather than analog, the audio is not rendered and available to be saved as a physical file until the save function is applied, there's no degradation of the audio signal like there is in analog recording.

While I don't know what goes on behind the curtain with generating BIAB tracks and how they're programmed. It doesn't matter. Applying Multi track techniques and principles create results the same as hardware multi track recorders - meaning using the techniques work...

You can quickly and easily see how this works for yourself by creating new project, enter a chord progression, select a key and tempo and any style. Either select a Style that uses a PG Music Medley group or Select a Medley from the RealTracks Picker.

<< 4. i want more of the rarer real tracks at different tempos.
harps was a nice idea. but eg vocals/choirs/back up singers/cellos/violins/fiddles/trumpets/general brass instruments/hornensembles/clarinets/bells/xylophones/flutes/harpsichords/and other orchestral instruments not currently in BIAB . of course more loops/hi Q's also. >>[\b]
Plus one

[b]<< 5. for each RD , i would like at the end single hits of each drum in the set so i could more easily fix up drum
tracks . like a single drum hits area the user could access. >>
Most drum audio files do have single hits at the end of the file with user access.

<< 6. i don't need it as i'm a purist and do vocs till i get them right. but i might as i get older if my vocal range
is not as high lol. an autotune button on each track . (eg the audio track in BIAB , and the tracks in RB and powertracks designated as
audio tracks .)just a one button press. if the one button auto tune dont work then ,the user should use a more sophisticated program/plug in . maybe it could be expanded also to generate
simple harmony vocs, etc on tracks that are in tune. >>
Both BIAB and RB have pitch correction and in BIAB there's a fix tuning selection in the Audio Edit - Edit menu.

<< 7. please see also my other Wishlist posts during 2020. >>
I'm sure they will if you've placed them in the Wishlist Forum.