Originally Posted by DC Ron
100% agree with the OP's excellent breakdown of looping disconnects. Can appreciate how fixing this could improve many workflows, but it would not improve mine as I never use looping in BiaB. Honestly, there are so many quirky features in BiaB, I've just learned to live with them, or work around them. And that's just for the 2% of BiaB I actually use.

If I were PG Music, I'd focus instead on an AI implementation for searching content and fixing stem generation so that features like "fix sour notes" are unnecessary.

Besides, BiaB will never be a DAW, and if it were, it would be RealBand...

I think this is one of the problems that PG have to deal with. We all use it so differently. I use looping all the time but it's only one of many problems with inconsistency and the amount of times I am saying to myself "wtf!". Like the "Loop Selected" button. Apart from its strange implementation, what even is it? In anything other than the chord sheet it isn't "loop selected" at all, it's "loop the underlying bar". Things like this will have you wasting time until you realise it's just the PG way - do everything different from the norm but use the same terminology as all the others. You expect it do do something but it does something else.

There are just too many problems like this in so many areas of BiaB. The "2%" I use is mostly because I just can't be bothered with the remaining 98%. I tried, I get frustrated, I give up because I might spend way too much time trying to do something that should have been almost immediate.

AI? I have no interest and would like to see the word removed altogether from the software. Start with common sense categorising and filtering will solve half the problem with search. I do agree it will never be a DAW and I don't want it to be. I wish they'd spend their time concentrating on improving usability for what the software was intended for.