Just want to add...

I think both RB and BiaB are pretty amazing products, and they do things that still amaze me. For instance the chord detection feature that I have used a few times. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have done some of my own DSP programming (including detecting the pitch of a singer in realtime), so I am aware of the complexities that must exist for something like detecting complete chords and timing info from a song. That is an amazing feat. And the RB generated tracks do sound really good too. I have a friend who is a pretty hardcore, oldschool guitar player and his jaw dropped when I played him a BiaB song (I used BiaB to work on a song idea before I started working on it in my main DAW).

But the reason for my initial post and its annoying undertone has to do with the fact that I just ended a very frustrating session with RB where I tried to do something but these bugs kept interfering. After I finally got close to what I wanted, I lost the RT due to the mentioned bugs earlier. I feel RB and BiaB has the potential to be truly awesome products if the bugs can be brought under control. Also I think most will agree the UI suffers from feature overload, inconsistencies, outdated concepts and years and years of adding features without doing any spring cleaning. Obviously the developers are really smart, judging by some of the powerful features you find throughout both programs (and often those features work really well, like the chord detection - diamonds in the rough if you will), but a complete UI rewrite is required. And maybe an updated development model where unit testing is added (or improved) to test some of these features more thoroughly to get the bug count down.

Also, once again apologies to jazzmammal if I misunderstood the tone of your post. The first time I read it, it really seemed to me that it was sarcastic and mocking me for being a "noob". That post can really be read in different ways.

BTW, I am more than happy to help with beta testing since for some odd reason I always seem to find obscure bugs in applications.

BTW 2, I also filed a bug report for the bar settings not shifting properly when deleting bars in RB.