Very helpful analysis. I am a light user of BIAB and I must say that yes I am baffled by the user interface (2025 currently) and its menus, sub-menus and options that really make no sense to me. Often I have no idea how to do something and must rely on help from the forum whereas in most software these days, you just right click on an item and the answer of what you want to do is right there for one click. For instance my year long adventure and documentation here of importing an audio file, splitting and aligning the results with a chord chart etc. was so inconsistent and buggy that I finally just gave up in defeat and use SMP instead. I have never encountered a software program as byzantine as this one, and because after several years with it and I still cannot understand much of it, I just use it for quick backing track creation for guitar improvisation practice over the SPECTACULAR sounding RealTracks. So while the front end GUI seems to have been improved for 2026, I know from all these comments generously shared by users, that this will not solve my difficulty using the program. So I will be making the choice to upgrade only based on whether there are some great new RTs and styles available that I will actually use. I suspect not for $150, but I am am still waiting for the PG fix of the non-playing RT demos that are new in the 2026 update. Pretty weird situation. I can see why younger folks may not go for this program. I am not really complaining here; just describing my experience. Other than quick custom backing track creation, for me I have found other more modern tools to do other complex music manipulation and transcription chores.

Last edited by Moonbeam9067; 12/08/25 11:18 AM.