I am sorry Chicago i disagree. I do appreciate your view, and i am sure that in your workflow those things are true for you. But for me with over 30 years of using recording software. i have used BiaB for 20 years now i don't care how fancy slick and streamlined it is i just want it to work. It flat out does. Does it do everything perfectly No!. Toontracks products are plugins. You can not take those plugins and create a 5 piece backing track, unless you place them in a host DAW. EZDrummer will make a drum track, EZbass will make a bass track, same with the rest, BiaB will make all 4 or 5 or 6 in seconds with out a host. Even if all you want is midi to fire up the toontracks plugins it is useful.

Sorry but those programs pale in comparison. I will say it could use a face lift to some degree, but with the depth of programs multifaceted approach to what it was created for, it works great. I have talk to young people who at first glance thought BiaB was old fashioned and complicated. They did not want to use it. Then i demonstrated how i put a band track together and they were WOW that is crazy. Then they gave it a closer look. Every year this program adds some cool tools, I am sure that will continue. It is and will be useful as part of the tool box. Realtracks, and RealDrums are great, but not the end all for every situation. I use them for some projects, sometimes i drag the midi track, sometimes i play the track myself.

We all have different needs. I am not knocking yours. I just disagree with blanket statements like "The younger crowd puts a lot more weight on applications needing to be streamlined, offer quick and intuitive workflow, have an attractive GUI and play nicely with other studio software and components." BiaB does play nicely with others you can create and drag what ever you want and it is not hard to do. Does it fit everyones needs? No, but it has been around since the early 90s and is still going strong. I have talked to several people who use it in small project studios that get a ton of mileage out of it. So i say if it works for you at least to a small point then great. Use the tools that work for you.

HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB 2025, Realband, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 9 32c , Melodyne 5 editor, Presonus Audiobox 1818VSL, Presonus control app.