I'm not ready to throw the baby out with the bath water but it's getting close. Put it this way, if PG released the RT by themselves, they would have a hard sell with features trying to get anyone to update the product. Other products I use regularly entice existing users all the time.

I'll get it for the RT and like I said, I see very few useful ones this go around for what I do.

Something I'd like to see each year is PG to conduct a poll sometime in advance of recording their new Real Tracks and Real Drums, and ask actual users what types of updated tracks they'd like to see more of in the new release. Or record and release some more throughout the year based on the interest. Repackaging the existing ones into a "Country" or "Rock" or "New Age" pack and trying to unload it for 50 bucks isn't really a big deal for those who do the full update.

BiaB has been a love/hate affair with me through the years. On one hand, I do honestly love it. I've used it on sessions, even produced a minor iTunes Top 100 hit with it, several years ago. I can't say enough good things about it and I can't emphasize that enough when I criticize it as well. The business model seems so antiquated in today's market. For those of us who record music, every other company out there seems to have their fingers on the pulse of their buyers. But PG lumbers along with a business model straight out of the 1990's. If they ever get a serious challenger to this platform, BiaB will lose because of its inflexibility. Case in point... how long have users asked for the ability to subdivide changes into 8th notes instead of the quarter notes they have now? And yes, I know you can mess around with tempo or half-time or blah, blah, blah. But you shouldn't have to create workarounds. Which would be most appreciated? The ability to change on 8th notes or another enhancement to a minor notation feature that makes it print prettier? I exaggerate a bit on the latter but it's the kind of "exciting new features" they roll out every year and market as a big deal. It's not. And don't get me started about marketing the product. At this point, if I owned the company, I'd change the name because most people don't even realize how powerful it is. They still think of the old-school MIDI product for Windows from the 90's. I'd license scaled-down version into someone's DAW so they could sample it for themselves. And I sure wouldn't put all my eggs into a single release every year in December and not really offer an expanded product line the rest of the year.

Oh, and simplify the product line. Do we really need the Super-Awesome-Jiffy-Neato Pack for people with brown eyes AND the Super-Awesome-Jiffy-Neato-Terrific pack for left-handed people with one blue eye and one green?

Last edited by BigWhirl2012; 12/17/20 05:50 PM.