Well written OM, but I will respectfully disagree with some of your opinions.

I have had the same plug-ins operating perfectly from Cakewalk's Pro Audio (I forget how many versions), Sonar 1,2,3 and Studio One Pro 4,5,and 6. Most have quickly upgraded to VST3 so that must no be a difficult upgrade. BiaB is still using DXi and they have been dead for many years now, I know you can use the old VST2.

If PGM could make the plug-in contain most all of the standalone features I think it would be a winner. Both OSes could upgrade simultaneously.

Although I hope PGM continues I believe it could be in trouble. Young people want software to work properly from the git-go: I have other music and photographic software that does with maybe only one bug upgrade during a year. As stated many times BiaB menus need an overhaul, something really just don't work properly like micro chords while others don't work at all like different time signatures. Read Uwe Schwarz post and you may see others. Note I tried to do a song like Mercy, Mercy, Mercy as well as I'm a Man using micro-chords but I just couldn't get to respond like I wanted. That brings up another thing, terminology. That should be in the music terms everyone else is using.

IMHO PGM is trapped in old outdated code. They have done wonderful things with it buy it may be coming to an end, or at least a hold position.

Now my friends don't come down to hard on me. I have said it many times virtually all of my songs start in BiaB but I leave it as fast as I can because I get so frustrated with it. I have little music time lately so I want to make music, not try to figure out convoluted software: If any other music software gave me problems like BiaB does they would have been deleted years ago.

That is just my opinion and you may or may not agree.

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