Originally Posted by Rustyspoon#
"Nothing is broken, it's just not your workflow."

THAT ^ is the philosophy that kept BIAB from where it needs to be for many years. Workflow has to be universally accepted, adhering to existing accepted software standards as much as possible

I have to agree, not only there are lots of broken / outdated features all over the program (many of them reported for years as anyone with some experience here knows very well), it's also that the lack of standard procedures and intuitive methods is a serious obstacle to the workflow of the average user. BIAB has thousands of features, but many of them are so hidden and / or convoluted that most users will never discover or use them.

A perfect example was given by Misha a few posts ago:
Originally Posted by Rustyspoon#

Being able to partially regenerate any track from the tracks view is a great feature, but how can anyone not familiar with the program discover that? There's no contextual menu on the track wiew showing that option, after selecting a section, right button does nothing, there seems to be no "regenerate" command on any of the main menus, no icon, nothing... The only way to regenerate seems to be memorizing one of the three different (but non customizable) shortcuts to access three different (but redundant) ways to do the same:

- F8: Multiriff
- Alt + F8: Floating Regenerate window
- CTRL + F8: Regenerate

Come on, that's terribly confusing and counterintuitive! crazy

Discoverability (how easily the average user can find the features in the interface) is one of the most important aspects of GUI design, and plays an essential role on improving the user experience. In this example (as with many others), the feature is there, but the probablity for an average user to discover it is virtually 0. That's why so many people find the program so difficult to use. That's why so many people say they use BIAB as little as possible, before moving the program to their DAW. And that's why identifying and reporting these anomalies is so useful.

Last edited by Cerio; 02/04/25 12:27 PM.
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