Hi all

This is my first post on this forum, hope you all are well :-)

I've been a BiaB user since 2011 and bought some updates along the way.

I have some points that I have to get of my chest, here goes:

1) I've have a MacBook with M1 - so I searched the net to see if 2024 would run natively on apple silicon. And it looked that way - but to my surprise it doesn't. I contacted support to make sure that it wasn't my setup that was making in run in Rosetta2 mode. They sounded surprised that it didn't run natively, and promised to pass it on.
2) The stand alone DAW plugin runs natively, but when you open songs made in the main app, there are things that sound different.
3) The DAW plugin (AU) is missing shortcuts for copy/paste
4) The DAW plugin (both AU and Stand alone) is snappy, but so many things are missing. I really don't see the point in using them.
5) The main app crashes 2-3 times in an hours session (macOS Sonoma)
6) The menus are confusing - and when you search menu items, and click the result - it doesn't alway take you there.
7) Both the realtracks and super midi tracks I've used, makes bad decisions about octave shifts - ex walking bass going G A Bb B and jumps to C and octave lower. And no easy option to avoid the Bass going under deep E.
8) Realdrums makes fill ins from bar 2 to 3 after I inserted 2 bars intro - even set to 'simple arrangement'. Realdrums going from cymbals to brushes, makes the cymbal cut in an unnatural way.
9) Of the programs I use this has the most confusing user interface
10) It always takes to long to make the ending sound right - BiaB never gets it right by default. Ex start ending 2 bars early does weird things, or if you have Tonic chord for the last, the bass sometimes choose the 5'th as last note.

I really want Band in a Box to work, but as of now it's frustrating for me.

Thanks for listening

Kind regards
Brian