The fallacy behind all this is that no one that studies music recording (that I know of) uses BIAB in the manner that you describe if they are trying to record songs. Even if they are using mostly real tracks:

-- they add shots, holds, pushes,
-- they audition tracks over and over again to get the best pieces,
-- they cut and paste samples to make things sound the way they want,
-- they add midi if they have good samplers
-- they add live parts to make it more "real"
... and so on.

No one that I have run into just gets a one shot BIAB output and uses that (except for practice or jamming). And when you use BIAB in that manner, you are just doing the same thing the samplers do. One guy manually edits all the realdrum tracks to make them more varied and "real". The quality of output is determined by the skills and patience of the user.

P.S. I am not trying to argue here or defend BIAB -- it is just that someone who is thinking about buying BIAB might see your remarks and think that you may be right (ha, ha).

Last edited by Kevin Emmrich; 11/14/13 04:21 PM.
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