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High quality integration, that's pro-level quality, with all of the " Studio One, Melodyne, Native Instruments, gear, guitars, blah, etc." you've accumalated.

By 'pro-level quality', meaning today, BIAB backing tracks are broadcast and streamed world-wide on every main-stream streaming service like Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Spotify, Pandora, and Soundcloud. I've no doubt we've also heard BIAB backing tracks tucked into major, mainstream commercial releases from major artists. The quality is there which makes me think it's been at least, experimented with.

As a long time musician but not at a pro level, BIAB addresses this three ways.

. It provides you studio quality audio recordings performed by real session musicians playing real instruments over any chord progression, at any tempo, in any key for instruments you cannot play.

. It provides you studio quality audio recordings performed by real session musicians playing real instruments over any chord progression, at any tempo, in any key for instruments you can play, when BIAB's product is better than you can play.

. It provides you studio quality audio recordings performed by real session musicians playing real instruments over any chord progression, at any tempo, in any key for instruments you can play, but is useful in times it's inconvenient for you to play.

BIAB's RealTrack content is a pristine data base for thousands of instruments with hundreds of hours of isolated audio for samples and loop creation.

If you're a music teacher; BIAB 2025 makes it easier than ever to create tutorials, practice tracks and to include transcription and notation for students to practice over.

This includes using BIAB to speed up, slow down, change key signatures, loop and to also use features such creating multiple SGU playlists on the fly, view the guitar fretboard fingering the notes and chords.

Students self-teaching can use these tools also.

To get an idea of the value of BIAB 2025 for 'serious' recordings. Serious teaching aids and a seriously high level of arrangement and creative self-contained, complex productions, Check out BIAB's Artist Performance sets on their main page.

You're a guitarist, so I recommend Artist Performance #4, Brent Mason and I posted a screenshot of PG Music's description of the set.

Everything that PG Music describes, all the tools and features are included in BIAB for a user to create their own Artist Performance Sets just like what you'll see in Brent's and all the others Artist Performance sets.

You don't have to create an entire Performance Set, this can also be done at the track level. With 2025 BIAB for Windows that includes a Stem Splitter; In conjunction with the updated Audio Chord Wizard, original as well as commercial recordings can now be imported, synced and aligned with the BIAB Chord Sheet to use with a BIAB project.

It's now possible to practice or learn a piece from the original recording from a hit song from 1967 and have notation and tab, transcription and see the notes on the Guitar fretboard.

That's pretty cool I think.