Stratpicker wrote:Twangy
that may have been true of BIAB in the early days (everyone gotta start somewhere, folks) but it now a far more versatile tool and with so many additional styles being available from guys like Notes Norton. There are Real Drums, Real Instruments and Real Band features now too. My greatest sadness is that is now becoming an expensive piece of software to keep updating.
OMB needs a keyboard and the whole point of BIAB for me at any rate is that I can stick the chord desriptions only into the pretty screen and they play in the style I have set. I can twiddle them and tweak them until I have it the way I want. I dont need to be able to play a keyboard - I'm a guitarist. (some say)
If you have got weird chords coming up, it must have been in the settings somewhere. With BIAB - its WYSIWYG.
cheers
Ian
You're absolutely right, I dismissed it when I first looked at it a few years ago, as a gimmicky toy. Have revisited it in last 3 weeks and discovered it's cred and amazing following and countless sites and forums it has spawned. That said, it does look to me somewhat inflexible, and whilst I cannot deny it's proven pedigree. I discovered One Man Band last week, and the depth and breadth of that program IMHO totally surpasses BIB by a mile in loads of features and extras that am fairly certain BIB comes nowhere near for richness. OMB doesn't as yet have a following of fanatical enthusiasts nor a very attractive GUI, but hey, take a look at what's there under the bonnet and they could easily win over BIB fans within next 12 months. Best of all is to have both products and enjoy.
You may be pleasantly surprised by it's superior power and features that harnesses much of Roland, Korg and Yamaha technologies for starters. They have thought of everything for sure.
Twangaway