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Hi, Brian. Nice song. The arrangement was great and grooved along, but the nylon string was the star of the show! 
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I have to say that I saw some impressive features there. That level of integration has been well thought out.
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I can't even control alt delete the program to close.
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Hi, Arri. Cool cover, I love the backstory. I'm with Hans on the volume of the wind - it gets in front of the vocals and detracts from the song.... IMO. Feel free to disagree. Everything else sounds great. You've got a pretty impressive tremolo on the mandolin!
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While not a total answer, you can add items such as Jukebox to the toolbar like this: ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32195&filename=2026-01-18_8-05-33.jpg)
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Normally a discussion about other music software would be in the Off-Topic Forum, unless this is a tip about how to use that other software with BIAB in this Recording forum. Guess what? You heard it here first. It runs as a VST3 in BIAB!  That should make this applicable to BIAB. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32194&filename=Screenshot 2026-01-17 150600.jpg)
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This is really aggravating. If I open the style picker, and then I minimize it it disappears. But I’m now locked out of the main program. Nothing will work while that style picker is open. I have no way to close it. Repeat, I have no way to close it. I can’t see it. I can’t maximize the window. I can’t minimize the window. I can’t do anything to see and manage the style picker, which is apparently buried somewhere. The Style Picker is a modal window, meaning that it takes all focus from all other parts of the program. Even if you minimize it, it still has focus. To resolve: Don't minimize it, just close it. Alternatively, use the Multipicker Library which gives you the ability to keep it open and use other parts of the program.
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Normally a discussion about other music software would be in the Off-Topic Forum, unless this is a tip about how to use that other software with BIAB in this Recording forum.
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Hi, Chris. Very nice! Did you create the melody as well, or give Suno the lyrics and have it create it over the background? Just curious how you got the melody into Suno.
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This is really aggravating. If I open the style picker, and then I minimize it it disappears. But I’m now locked out of the main program. Nothing will work while that style picker is open. I have no way to close it. Repeat, I have no way to close it. I can’t see it. I can’t maximize the window. I can’t minimize the window. I can’t do anything to see and manage the style picker, which is apparently buried somewhere.
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I am in for 1$ Until 30 days from now. Surprised to see the download includes a standalong app for auditioning and searching the content. And even more surprized that it runs in BIAB.
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Hi, Carl. So pretty. Not just the chords and melody, but your playing and articulations. Excellent musicianship that really elevates this. Thanks for providing the chords - I'll have to steal borrow some of these changes! And thanks for adding some details of your playing, recording and mixing, too.
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Hi Hans! This has an interesting combination of instruments - but it works! The style coupled with the fiddle partly conveys the recklessness of the trip, although completely understandable. In one sense, this is why many people are migrating to Australia to be a world away from perceived troubles - the tyranny of distance has worked in our favour in the past, but not so sure moving ahead. This is all to say the subject of your song would be very relatable to many. Good work - it’s different but I like it! Andrew
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From one who uses BIAB 99% of the time on live shows, well after getting my tracks as I want them, my 1st take is that the new GUI does not lend itself, as it once did to playing live. It seems it is now designed for the users who are doing studio work instead. I say this as most of the tabs in the column on the left side of the chord chart are not helpful at all with live gig situations. For instance no tab for "Favorite Song Folder", no tab for "Jukebox" not even a convenient tab to get to your setlist "Open Song" to mention a few. I know these tabs are available on the header but are very small and not very easy to get to quickly, especially in a live gig situation where light or glare are often an issue. Is there any option where some of these tabs in that 1st column, that I will never use, be swapped with some that we do use all the time in live situations? Thanks for any ideas, or workarounds as I am very hesitant to put 2026 on my gigging computers if not. Danny C.
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Thanks, Andrew. May favourite part is the ‘tropical punches’ Andrew Tropical punches? They sound delicious. Can you get them at the bottle-o?
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Hi, Hans. The song really took a different direction when the fiddle kicked in.  Excellent production. I love the ending!
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My Motu M4 Asio works fine on the old dell tower. I am confident that having no headphone output except at 48k causes the conflict.
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Interesting concept, but $275 a year rental on special, $300 there after. No, thank you. I am not interested even if it is free. Cakewalk played that game with me and thousands of others. A tethered software that can be unplugged any time they wish to do so (even after mr.Meng promised "decades", at time when Gibson went belly up). No subs or tethered software for me please. What PGM should do is make use of AI + their catalog to enhance and expand existing RTs, so they have more variation, different octaves, inversions, etc. Make User Tracks creating process in line with a second quarter of 21st century... again, perhaps making use of AI, so there are no "shortages" of genres and other qualities. I'm not sure that there's much out there (other than Celemony's tools) that can disassemble and reassemble audio like this, but I haven't looked in a while. And besides, there's more than one way to solve this problem. Since pitch recognition is currently quite good, audio -> midi -> audio giving users direct access to notes is feasible in BiaB (assuming someone wanted that feature. It's there already a "Use Only Chord Tones" option that does this in BiaB? A better search tool and "smart" connections (which BiaB sort of already has, due to the sampled progressions). It seems there are a lot of ideas here that BiaB could use, at least in terms of the UI.
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What drivers are you using? If you have an external interface, you have more likelihood of success.
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DrDan, well, if promoting a competitive product on this forum isn't stirring the pot, I'm not sure what is. I'm funny like that though. Especially when comparing it as a direct competitor. Some forums may remove such a post. BiaB moderators have been gracious in that aspect. So far. Thanks PG moderators.
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DrDan, well, if promoting a competitive product on this forum isn't stirring the pot, I'm not sure what is. I'm funny like that though.
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I can't say yes or no. But what I can say is I stopped using Dell for music machines 4-5 years ago because of issues similar to this. Good luck.
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This appears to be a deal breaker for my new pc. Does Biab need to run at 44,100? With the conflicts I get pops since internal headphones are connected at 48,000. Everything runs fine on old Dell. Likely due to sonic effects built into new machine.
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This is all so new. But the demo and usage vidoes doing a good job to state the claims. I suggest no one comment on these topics until at least they have viewed all the demos. Personnally I am trying to hold back as much as I can so as not to just stir the pot. Besure to look very closely at Chords Demo and Tempo and Timing Demos. Very interesting and features are very promising. I contacted support for my free Essentials version, but no word back yet, but heck $1 to sign up for a month should be a no brainer for me. I have reviewed all the videos.
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<< “One (Tonalic) is far superior to the other but one (BIAB plug-in) has more instruments (for now).”>> That comparison overlooks a fundamental limitation in Tonalic’s current design. Tonalic’s core functionality is dependent on ARA integration, which tightly couples it to the DAW. At present, many widely used DAWs either do not support ARA at all or support it only partially. As a result, a large segment of users cannot access Tonalic’s full feature set; even if they purchase it. In that sense, this release promises potential that it does not yet deliver universally. By contrast, the BIAB plug-in is not a reduced product. It is a gateway to the entire BIAB standalone engine. That distinction matters. The commonly accepted idea that users “only use 10% of BIAB” exposes the weakness in the comparison. Even when working inside a DAW centered workflow, the BIAB plug-in can leverage some of the remaining 90% of BIAB’s arrangement logic, form control, substitution rules, medleys, and generation tools before tracks ever reach the DAW. That allows for exporting tracks, or complete songs, of greater structural and musical complexity than Tonalic can currently produce. There's also the option to produce and arrange tracks entirely in BIAB retaining 100% of the software. That's how PGM produces all demo's, lessons, artist performance tracks. The artist performance sets with vocals are all saved as SGU/MGU files, not RealBand SEQ files, not as pro-tools, studio one, Reaper, Cubase, etc. That's another distinction that matters. Every forum member I’m aware of who posts DAW finished songs in the User Showcase, especially those who comp, edit, and manually manipulate multiple RealTracks exported to their DAW, still operates within that same 10%/90% reality. The difference isn’t whether the other 90% exists; it’s which parts of it are not accessed and how that affects the quality of what gets exported. Which specific features remain unused varies by workflow, but the ratio remains remarkably consistent: roughly 10% active usage, 90% ignored; even though that ignored portion is still shaping the quality of what ultimately ends up in the DAW in a negative way. This is not true at all. The program is not dependent on ARA at all. Just like Melodyne was not dependent on ARA. Pro Tool Users could use Melodyne before Pro Tools ever had ARA. If you watch this video you will see that it can be used in any DAW and what ARA is doing in Studio One because of the ARA on the chord track which is in Studio One. Tonalic First Steps – Getting Started with Tonalics Apple Logic Pro is getting it's chord track updated this month. What this has to do with is the chord track.
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