Started/suffered with BIAB on floppies and WIN 3.1 back in the
late 1990's.Since I'm retired recently, I finally might have time
to upgrade from version 2008.5. But this new activation cxxp
and all the workarounds mentioned in the forums makes me nervous
like Don Knotts (but that's for another post)!

What I noticed is that the new GUI has a thru button, but no
MSB bank select in sight anywhere. In the new GUI video the
thru button is mentioned but not explained (does another line
show up in the new mixer under soloist?). I use the thru channel
and MSB a lot with my Ketron SD2. On forum I see mention of a
hot-key to get to the old mixer, but I'm still curious about the
thru button and wondering if MSB is available @new mixer.

As you can see below I'm still using WIN XP. When I change
would you suggest WIN7 rather than WIN8 (got used to WIN7
on a friends laptop recently). Seems like you have to hunt
things down more in WIN7 vs WIN XP, and another friend thinks
that WIN8 is even worse!

Leeman

Dell Inspiron 1501 AMD64-AthlonX2 2GB(maxed)WIN XP
Edirol: UA-4FX interface, M10-DX mixer
Ketron:SD2
Lexicon:MRC
Roland:A50 midiboard,DR660 drum machine,MKS-20,MKS-30,MKS-70,
D550 modules, M-120 mixer
Yamaha:TX802 module
TC Helicon:HarmonyM
Oberheim:Drummer

Still available just in a different place from being a + sign next to the old GM MIDI dropdown that very few were using anymore anyway.

I access my Ketron SD2 Patchmap choices by Rightclicking on any of the Tracknames where I want to invoke the SD2, from the RightClick menu popup I choose "Select MIDI Patch" and that points to a second popout short menu, pick "Select Higher Bank Patch (from .pat file) and from there on it looks just as before.

The same two popups are available from the new GUI's Mixer area as well, just RightClick on the Track's Window Slot for it.

As for XP, that's what I've been running BB2014 on, works fine, actually seems more stable here than BB2013 was.

Now, on top of all that reassurance, don't forget about the PG Music "30-day No Questions Asked Return Policy" as well.

Surely 30 days is time enough to tell if you want to keep it.

And the activation deal is no big thing at all. Do it once and its over. I've heard no complaints about that not working. And we're allowed up to three machines, too.

But I'm tellin' ya, this one is a keeper.


Got accustomed to using the new GUI in minutes here.




--Mac

Love the new look so far. Me thinks it is evolving!

Nothing wrong with Win 8.1 Just takes very little time to get used to it and configure your start menu and desktop. BIAB runs just fine on Win 8.1 Later, Ray