Or BIYP? Or Band-In-A-Phone?

Have you guys thought about creating mobile phone versions of BIAB? I think it would be quite popular.

Smartphones are becoming increasingly more powerful and capable. My new phone, the T-Mobile HTC HD2, has a 1gHZ processor, and a 4.3" screen, with 800x480 resolution.

There may be times, where one does not have a laptop with one, where it might be convenient to work on an arrangement--on the phone, or other mobile device.

Of course, not with all the features of the current desktop BIAB. No RealDrums nor RealTracks, no VSTI nor DXI plugin synths. Just a basic GM synth. Later, at home with a desktop or laptop computer, one could add more.

I don't know about all the mobile platforms, but Windows Mobile (as my phone) comes now with capability to play MIDI files (GM softsynth built in) fairly well. There are also freeware MIDI players one can install (such as GSPlayer), that come with their own synth. BIAB Mobile could come with its own GM softsynth, or use the built-in one, or one of the others.

Of course, nowadays, you would need to have versions to work with Windows Mobile, Android, and Iphone, perhaps Blackberry, Symbian, and the new Palm OS as well.

Any chance of an upcoming BIYP?

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Actually, there is one way I can use BIAB on my phone now. (With one major problem--no sound.) I still have the DOS version of BIAB from decades ago. At least for Windows Mobile (not sure of the other platforms), there are Dos emulator apps one can use, to run any DOS app on the Windows Mobile platform. (It is probably mostly intended for gamers, some of whom still like to play DOS games.) For instance, PocketDOS, and DOSBox.

I tried running BIAB DOS in PocketDOS on an WM device, and it worked. The only problem--no sound. Because--in the DOS days, no such thing as softsynths, nor internal MIDI, no GM, nothing like that. The sound had to go out through an MPU-401 MIDI interface, to an outboard sound module. (My guess is, it would probably be possible, with the right cables, adapters, and interface, to rig up something that would work--to get BIAB DOS mobile to play through an external MIDI sound module. However, in doing so, all portability would be lost, so what's the point?

However, if someone could figure out how to route the outgoing MIDI signal from BIAB-DOS running on a mobile device, through that device's built in MIDI softsynth, that would really be one portable solution, at least for those of us who still have the DOS version.

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In any case though, it might be nice to have a new mobile version of BIAB.

Last edited by maiki; 08/24/10 09:35 PM.