A collaboration of user recommendations and opinions + PGM willingness to hear our ideas, brought one of the best updates in years. Thankfully they didn't cut (too many) corners and UI looks & feels modern and solid. A success!

What's next? I think the approach PGM took in 2025 is the best possible route, as it gives them, as creators a fuller picture of what can be done to appeal to most people, instead of making for example questionable complex features that only a handful of users will discover.
In my humble opinion there are 4 major areas (blocks) of BIAB that need attention:

Context menus + tools that need a more modern approach, not just graphics. Consistency, wording, layout, sorting, non modal and yes graphics too.

Library.
While I am thrilled that we have all the content now in a single (non modal) place, that works extremely well when populating tracks, auditioning, etc. I feel that several important steps are needed to make it whole. There had been many discussions on subject and I imagine it would be quite a task to modernize Library experience beyond current implementation. My personal grievance is that it doesn't have hierarchical (nested) sorting, when second choice respects first and third follows first two without reset. Another idea that was commonly voiced is to be able to sort by instrument family. And many many others. And of course to make it look modern, to be in line with our new favorite UI

Preferences block. No need to go into detail. Very similar to first 2 ^.

Previously reported issues.
Hold on, I need a deep breath. This is a dangerous topic smile There is a common ground here if... PGM decides to take the challenge of dealing with BIG item, all (most) of the bugs & shortcoming related to that specific block can be dealt with as they craft it.
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What does PGM think about this "two way" collaboration? Can we repeat this year's experience and have another awesome update next year?

Needless to say, it is unrealistic to expect a complex software to be fully modernized in a single year, but certain big blocks, as we seen with UI and Library can be done. We, as users can identify the "next" important block and try to present our proposals / requests / examples so PGM can get a broad idea of what their customers want to get done as a priority.

If people want to join this discussion, I only ask not to get content topics (styles, RD, RT's Midis) mixed in discussion about software. An example would be: "We need more styles with cowbell".

Thank you.

Last edited by Rustyspoon#; 12/09/25 03:10 PM.