Musy, im not trying to protect anything, and i do get your point. Non destructive editing is a good idea for BiaB. I just wish you would stop trying to paint others points as old guard or protectionism. It is not fair and tends to be rather insulting. I do appreciate where you are coming from for sure, and i also agree with you, and Trevor. This needs to be added at some point.

My true point is that Audacity is a simple and very effective audio editing "DAW" but it lacks any resemblance to what is capable in BiaB. It is a great tool in the tool chest. To compare BiaB with Audacity is like comparing a hammer and chisel with a CNC machine. And no Audacity is not the CNC machine. It may have superior audio editing tools than BiaB, but it lacks about 30 other capabilities that BiaB has.

I hope that BiaB adds what you mentioned above i really do. One thing we, meaning you , I, Trevor, and everyone else here who make good suggestions here have to realize is that as we have discussed in the past, BiaB is written in 30 year old code language, and adding somethings will take more effort. Since BiaB was not intended from the start to be a true DAW, it was written as a midi based software. It has grown to have an amazing selection of tools. some ideas you have floated out there and we have seen them come to fruition. Many others have contributed much along the way. We all want to see BiaB continue to grow.

Let's work together to be voices of reason, and positive thought to help this happen. If my response was taken as critical of your views i apologize for that, as it was meant as perspective. This is a very complex piece of software, and there is nothing remotely like it on the market. there are other programs that do part of what it does but nothing puts it all together like BiaB does. Sometimes i am amazed at the little scripts you put together to do a taks that you would like to see in BiaB, you have a gift. Still because you can get a simple DAW and a script and a third party app to do a task doesn't prove that BiaB can do this without breaking something else that slows down the annual cycle. Just look at what you pointed out regarding the Apple issue. One thing throws a monkey wrench in the machine. With something as complex as this program patience is needed. I do think for a minute Peter and gang want to just not add what the valued users want. He has shown time and again he wants to make his customers happy.

Best to you and i again apologize if I said anything to make you feel like i resist your thoughts here. It was not my intention.

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