A little love for biab - PG Music Forums

just wanted to give a little shoutout to pg music and the dedicated forum people who keep the machine rolling... biab for all its little painpoints is still one of the best programs out there... an example is: just for the drum and bass parts you can export and put into diff daws that alone is a blessing, and then you add the rest in...

The last few years I have made it my goal to really understand the more advanced features of the program, and am always amazed at some of the features that you can do with it... some things I learned just by experimenting and getting myself in trouble with the program, but in the end it really has helped me in understanding how music really works so again I say thanks pg music for all the hard work you do

I am with you on most of what you mentioned. BIAB is a very special tool in my toolbox. I am very happy that a lot of progress was made this year. (64bit / VST!)

I know this probably belongs in "wishlist" but I still want to mention it here. PG & Crew, please examine suggestions that long time users had. BIAB is a feature packed program. Many comments share opinion that it is wise to work on fixing/polishing things that are in place already, rather then creating new ones. And of course interface and mixer

Thank you!

Misha.

Originally Posted By: Rustyspoon#

I am with you on most of what you mentioned. BIAB is a very special tool in my toolbox. I am very happy that a lot of progress was made this year. (64bit / VST!)

I know this probably belongs in "wishlist" but I still want to mention it here. PG & Crew, please examine suggestions that long time users had. BIAB is a feature packed program. Many comments share opinion that it is wise to work on fixing/polishing things that are in place already, rather then creating new ones. And of course interface and mixer

Thank you! Misha.

Especially don't forget the active support from this 'Crew', one of the best around, BTW on par with Toontrack ...

+1 on this.
BB is amazing. I don't possess a sequencer, my only keyboard is QUERTY

yet I can produce top quality backing tracks for my solo guitar gigs etc to my own, often quirky arrangements.
My only beef, if it indeed is a 'beef', is that PG are pushing ahead at a terrific pace BUT are leaving behind, swept under the carpet, lots of things that didnt get fixed. I'm thinking RTs here, where some are just appalling, like 1278, or shots and holds dont work on some and do on others.
But only the whole BB is superb.
RB however is still pretty much in the box, untouched.
Ian

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like 1278

Hi Ian,

#1278 should sound significantly better with 2019 as there were fixes to address problems with gaps in the chords. Have you listened to it recently and could you send us a sample song that demonstrates the problems you're hearing? We'd like to look into this further.

Hi Andrew, i posted this earlier about another RT (3148) full of holes; funny is when you 'jazz up the chords' it plays OK in BIAB, and 'normally' in Realband:

Originally Posted By: myself

Just tried Style _HIGHSID.STY with RT 3148 on the pianotrack, AP BIAB v614 x64.

RT is Madolala Rhythm Americana Folk Slow EV16 060.

Tried Key of A, and it only plays a few chords, no A, or D f.i., but C#m7 and E7 are OK.

On the non sounding chords you hear a sound, as if the playback steering for a few chords selects a wrong file, and very soft (plm -40dB estimated). Transposed to G the same thing.

Now weird is, that after jazzing up the chords it plays OK. Also the same song loaded in Realband the RT seems to generate normally.

Played with a 4/4 tempo (60bpm as the RT has) Can it be buggy? F

Originally Posted By: Andrew - PG Music

Quote:

like 1278

Hi Ian,

#1278 should sound significantly better with 2019 as there were fixes to address problems with gaps in the chords. Have you listened to it recently and could you send us a sample song that demonstrates the problems you're hearing? We'd like to look into this further.

Hi Andrew
Better but not "significantly" better as far as I can tell. Back in the day I sent PG a few SGU's that I had tried to use 1278 on so you could hear the bad gaps and poor transitions.
One of them was WINDSONG. Here is the same SGU again, updated as of 2019 Build 614. Some of the gaps are less obvious but listen to the horrible transitions please.
https://app.box.com/s/sj1bb90dyk7i4new8d8r8qjyimo9bg2w

However, this Thread is to "Praise Caesar not to bury him" to turn the Quotation on its head. Its an amazing piece of work and I'd be totally lost without it.
Regards
Ian

Got it, thanks!