Why not add some very simple top level GUIs on top of the standard BIAB user interface.

This could probably simplify the introduction of the software to new users as well as could be some very useful tools for the experienced user.

The option would be to enter the standard interface or some of the specific simplistic top level interfaces. And when the work is finished on the top level one could easily switch down to the full BIAB level interface to continue the work with all the tools that are available there.

1. One example could be to add a simplistic Top Level GUI in the style of “ChordPulse”.
I just found out about ChordPulse.
It is a very simple and intuitive little program that makes it very easy and quick to start sketching song structures and to find an overall idea of the grove and style of a song. This could then be used as it is as a simple backing track or as a starting point to be refined further going down to the next level to the full BIAB GUI within all the tools of BIAB.
I really like the CLEAN and simple entry level with an easy and quick way to enter song forms, chords, and selecting styles from the clean organization and presentation of styles to the user. (I know it can be done in BIAB as is).
I really like the matrix style by genre of presenting styles and the simplicity in how the styles can be audited in real time against my song/chords whilst it is plying, just by clicking another style.

This is just one idea for a top level gui. There could be several more reflecting different aspects of the workflow that users might have problems with or spending a lot of time with.

2. Another example that probably would be very useful would be a simplistic Top Level GUI that in steps could guide and support the user in finding out "the Grove" of a song that he might hear in his head.
I don’t know how to do this, all I know is that I am spending so much time searching styles and auditing styles in BIAB in order to find something close to what I am hearing in my head, but most of the times I just give up.
So the idea is to find a way to guide the user in this process (the current search approach from the style picker list does not work efficiently and neither searching the drum lists or other lists).

A clean and simple GUI that step by step trying to nail down the “grove” and characteristics that the user hears in his head.

I guess it many times starts from the drums and bass. But the dialogue needs to be an iterative guiding with examples and feedback to narrow it all down further and further and eventually to suggested some good matching styles to the user.

BIAB 2026, Studio Pro 8, Song Master Pro, Win11 Home. i7-9700K CPU, 32GB, ESI MAYA44eX, ZOOM UAC-2, Guitar Pro 8, Transcribe, (EZKeys2, EZD3, SD3, EZBass, EZMix3)
Amateur: fiddle, guitar, vocal, beginner on bass.