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#754217 - 02/17/23 08:22 PM
[Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh]
BiaB Mac sales are rising, exceeding Windows
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Wow, for the first time ever, BiaB Mac sales are exceeding Windows. BiaB is rising in appeal among young, professional musicians, and using Mac.
Demographics of the Mac biab skew towards younger people and professional musicians. And sales of the Mac biab have been rising, to the point that Mac biab sales now exceed windows biab. It is now 53:47 mac:windows. (It used to be 67:33 windows). That means a trend towards more younger, professional musicians using biab, on Mac
We hear from them more on social media (facebook, YouTube), and in the user showcase.
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#754247 - 02/18/23 02:11 AM
[Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh]
Re: BiaB Mac sales are rising, exceeding Windows
[Re: PeterGannon]
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Must admit, it was the best thing I EVER did was changing from Windows to mac
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#754295 - 02/18/23 07:25 AM
[Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh]
Re: BiaB Mac sales are rising, exceeding Windows
[Re: PeterGannon]
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Mac has always attracted creative professionals while Windows seems to be business orientated. Microsoft will make an effort to attract creatives every now and then but has never made a sustained effort.
The Apple Ipad is also becoming a popular music production platform. Has PG Music considered supporting the Ipad platform?
One of the more interesting things I watch for while looking at virtual instrument or plugin demonstrations on YouTube is if the demonstration is performed on a Mac or Windows computer. The demonstrations are overwhelmingly performed on a Mac.
The good news for PG Music is the move to Mac means the 2023 Mac release will be extremely popular.
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#754309 - 02/18/23 08:07 AM
[Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh]
Re: BiaB Mac sales are rising, exceeding Windows
[Re: PeterGannon]
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Good news indeed. Glad to see the product is growing among younger users.
Bodes well for the future.
Lets hope this encourages PG Music to continue to elevate the level of development effort on the Mac Product.
The Mac version of BIAB has, until recent years, been a bit of a step child of the Windows version at PG Music.
My $.02.
Admittedly this gap has narrowed in recent years. I think its fair to say it has not disappeared.
I understand, the market does drive the business. Such is life
AAPL is now demonstrating software NATIVELY running on their own chips that might be exploited in the BIAB product.
Dedicating project audio and software tracks to specific CPU's as AAPL now does in LOGIC PRo X is one example.
That might significantly improve the regeneration of tracks, one of the performance gripes of the BIAB product.
As a minimum PG might finally ditch Rosetta and embrace a native mode version.
In the meantime, great hope for the future.
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#754483 - 02/19/23 12:53 PM
[Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh]
Re: BiaB Mac sales are rising, exceeding Windows
[Re: PeterGannon]
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Will the Mac version of BiAB export a scrolling chord sheet with lyrics and audio to a .avi file like the Windows version?
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#755147 - 02/23/23 02:36 PM
[Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh]
Re: BiaB Mac sales are rising, exceeding Windows
[Re: Tim_Clark]
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Will the Mac version of BiAB export a scrolling chord sheet with lyrics and audio to a .avi file like the Windows version? Let's hope not. AVI files do not play on a Mac without a 3rd party converter. MP4, OTOH, would be good.
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#755152 - 02/23/23 02:45 PM
[Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh]
Re: BiaB Mac sales are rising, exceeding Windows
[Re: PeterGannon]
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I would bet that music and AV apps—as nice as they are—are not the main reason that young professionals have been switching to the Mac.
There are now millions of seats licensed by SalesForce in use globally. Yes, it works over Windows but nowhere nearly as well as it does on the Mac over Chrome. Combined with Apple Silicon portables, these make for extremely powerful work stations.
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Digital Performer 11, LogicPro
Finale 27, Dorico 4, Encore 5.0.7, SmartScore Pro 64 Notion 6, Overture 5
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#758443 - 03/19/23 08:46 AM
[Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh]
Re: BiaB Mac sales are rising, exceeding Windows
[Re: PeterGannon]
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Peter, with the younger audience do you think you will produce more current pop and other genres that appeal more to youth?
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