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Band-in-a-Box Patch Updates - #TechTuesday #494859 10/09/18 11:05 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,312 Victoria, BC Callie - PG Music OP PG Music Staff
OP Callie - PG Music PG Music Staff Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,312 Victoria, BC	Visit our Patches & Updates page, and you will see that with every version released, there are 2+ patch updates applied to that version. Patch updates are important, and should definitely be installed to your Band-in-a-Box folder. They can add new features, update the help resources of the program, fix bugs reported by users, and make your entire Band-in-a-Box experience run smoothly! Band-in-a-Box update options can be adjusted within the program too - within the program, head to Band-in-a-Box \| Check for Updates \| and then you can select to automatically check for updates by however many days you choose! Callie Marketing Representative PG Music Inc.

Re: Band-in-a-Box Patch Updates - #TechTuesday Callie - PG Music #495687 10/13/18 06:40 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 409 N nonchai Journeyman
nonchai Journeyman N Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 409	BIAB 2018 is going to need a hell of a lot more regular patch updates than the July one. This program frankly is as buggy as hell. In particular wherever hosting VST/AU plugins is concerned. Maybe a public beta program would help. Like the ABLETON people do. Or just biting the bullet and selling BIAB to a company with the resources financially to pay for a the resources to hire a bigger developer team to do an entire overhaul - a company like Yamaha. Many other software companies have a quarterly dot-update cycle or such. And I know of many iOS one-man developers of some ultra cool iOS music apps who have a far better and professional support regimen. I think it is highly unacceptable for BIAB users to in effect - wait all year - and have to pay for a complete yearly update - for bug fixes - only to be faced with all the NEW bugs that came along for the ride when a new feature was added or enhanced. When ALL they want and need is for the frigging bugs to be fixed. no more. Last edited by nonchai; 10/13/18 06:45 AM. Big Sur, Mac Mini i7 2018, 64GB RAM 2TB SSD Yamaha PSR SX 900, Cubase, Ableton, UNIFY, OPUS ORCHESTRATOR, MASCHINE, Vienna Ensemble Pro ,Audiofuse, L6 HELI, KOMPLETE, Komplete Kontrol 88 Lockdown beard, podgy face, beer belly, bald patch ... yadda yadda

Re: Band-in-a-Box Patch Updates - #TechTuesday nonchai #495697 10/13/18 07:28 AM Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh
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w Expert Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,082 somewhere in outer space	Thanks Callie . That is an excellent reminder. In reference to the comments by nonchai : Here is an interesting write up about the history of the Band... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-in-a-Box As noted in the article PG Music continues to develop the software, with annual releases on each platform . Windows releases come out first and then Mac OSX releases . Unfortunately Mac OS X releases are sloooow to come with recent updates creating more problems than solving old problems . Although, the Mac operating system is also constantly changing and improving whereas the Windows system has only had odd tweaks . Another factor may be that sales of Windows is greater than Mac . I have/use ABLETON and it is far from a perfect DAW . Band in a Box is very unique and I;m glad PG is constantly developing and improving this software .

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