BIAB is really not a program made for recording songs. It's a keyboard and mouse controlled app.

If you want to make songs and use a foot controller to help you make them, it sounds like what you really want is a looper app.

BIAB is not a looper really at all.

BIAB is a band.... made up of instruments.

I use BIAB as a practice buddy for guitar woodshedding and as a songwriting tool. I click with my mouse and select a style. I enter some chords. I can't see how a foot controller could ever be made to do that. But I would love it if BIAB grew at least enough midi controllable features to let me start and stop playback with a foot control. But really, for that purpose the space bar is good enough.

The best midi controller I have for the purpose, one that I use to control BITWIG (a very powerful daw with a built in clip based looper) is the NEKTAR PACER.

In my opinion you should check out bitwig and the pacer if you simply want to make stuff and record your guitars and vocals.

The BIAB DAW PLUGIN could help you use BIAB and a DAW together, I think. That might be what you're looking for more or less?


Before control surface integration I'd at least like to see a bit of configurability on the keyboard shortcuts. There are USB HID foot controllers that can be configured to any keyboard shortcuts you like, but it would be nice to have some midi remote mapping onto the BIAB control keyboard shortcuts for sure.

Last edited by Warren P; 07/04/24 03:17 PM.
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