Becasue for the vast majority of BiaB users the program does what they want. They neither need it to be as you say or want it. You need to learn the same lesson my wife tells me I need to learn. "It is not all about me"

Most of the people here do one of two or three things. 1. build a basic song bed in BiaB then move it to a sequencer to finish with personally made or played tracks, and mix and master it. 2. arrange backing tracks to play live with and they do not need anything but a basic drum,bass, piano, guitar, or strings arrangement. They want it to re-arrange or generate the song every time so it sounds like a live band. Waa Laa Band in a Box. This is what most folks use it for.

For those that want the full recording package, plus some arrangement tools, they are developing RB. RB does not need ALL of BiaB's features. Some of them are specific to the above mentioned tasks, and don't lend themselves to the process that a sequencer does. Once again Saw and Drill.

Why should PG scrap a long time supported program and just develop RB alone when BiaB is their flagship, and so many like the program the way it is. They did listen and marry BiaB and PTPA into RB. Why not dive in and enjoy. What you want is there, and will continue to grow as time goes on. So they should toss it out just because you do not want to dig in and learn a new application? Really?

But Dr. Gannon Slowly as not to risk the stability of the program. Fix the main issues and add as needed by request.

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