Hi,

The wish-list request that I made in Post #1 of this thread needs an enhancement and I will be creating a 2nd very closely related request here as well.

The enhanced wish is to have a button on the BIAB export screen that opens a special screen to allow export of chord labels and click tracks to various popular DAWs. These export choices would be remembered. I attached a picture of how this might look. For me being able to export these tracks to multiple DAWs all at once would be a big time saver. I would use this feature probably once a week on average. When you study the picture it should become obvious that many new tracks would be exported with (only one button click each week) to a folder containing all tracks for the song and the chord label tracks and click tracks would need to be in the format "DAW-Name_Track-Type-Optional-Sub-Type" (Examples: Audacity_Labels_Chords.txt, Audacity_Labels_Sections.txt, Audacity_Clicks.wav, Reaper_Labels_Chords.mid, Reaper_Labels_Sections.mid). You might notice the 2nd picture shows song section labels and I have section labels in my example here but my first picture does not show a section label column. I missed that. A section label column would be needed to match the BIAB sections. I am not sure if all DAWs can handle this. Audacity certainly can as my 2nd picture shows. This would need to be investigated.

For me this 2nd feature would never be used if the main request above was put in. The 2nd related wish is to copy the feature demonstrated at this BIAB 2021 VST video jump into BIAB itself. Note that the BIAB 2022 VST has a C7 button for dragging items into the DAW. I personaally think this feature set is better in BIAB itself. There are several reason for this. 1/ The BIAB VSP plugin has a lot of bugs. 2/ The BIAB VSP stand alone plugin also has a lot of bugs. 3/ one of the bugs is you can't get the chords to copy properly from BIAB to the Plugin. Okay to be fair I have been emailing with support about these bugs and I believe they will eventually be fixed. However this leads to the final reason. 4/ I highly doubt the Plugin will EVER be as good as BIAB because BIAB is a massively great program. Why make a duplicate that is never likely to be as good?

I attached a few additional pictures that may help make this request clear.

Thanks,
John

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ReaperChords.png (101.92 KB, 34 downloads)
Last edited by bowlesj; 01/05/22 10:59 AM.
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