I'm a big fan of keyboard arrangers but the one difference is they are restricted to the main style you select and then 2 to 4 variations by hitting a button while you're playing. But it is a lot of fun if you have something like the Korg PA4X like I do. The sound quality and styles are really good. You pick a style and then play a chord in your left hand. The arranger keeps playing that chord until you change it. I get that.

Now, what is the main purpose of Biab, what is one of the biggest selling points? It gives you a different version of the arrangement every time you hit play! And how does it do that? It does it by creating the arrangement first after you hit play. You don't hear the arrangement until it's finished generating it. That makes a real time arranger function basically impossible because an arranger is following what you play with no preplanned arrangement. Where would Biab get the 8 bar bridge with a variation change for example if you haven't loaded it in yet?

Say you're using Real Tracks which most of us use. The RT's can be one bar, or several bars. You want to trigger a 4 bar RT while playing live but the next chord is a 2 bar turnaround? How could Biab know you're going to do that and instantly give you a 2 bar RT instead of the 4 bar one you're current using with that first chord? Impossible unless you set it up first which takes the live playing part off the table.

What you're asking goes against everything PG Music stands for because for 30 years Biab has been the only music production software that doesn't give you prerecorded backing tracks. Biab gives you a realistic band to play along with that has little differences in each verse or chorus but you don't lead it, you play along with it after the song has been created. Most of us do not want to hear the exact same licks and phrasing over and over and over.

Bob

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