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I would like to request a new function “user interface/menue” to be added to BIAB 2021 to provide a simple “Strum Machine” with basic and simple functions like the “Strum Machine” https://strummachine.com/.

It ought to be trivial to add a function like that in BIAB.
It might also to be a good opportunity to bring back/in users of the Strum Machine into BIAB.

I have received some suggestions here on the forum on how to use BIAB as a strumming machine but I don’t get it to sound like I want to. It does not sound as I want it to sound and it is too complicated.

I just want very basic guitar strumming as backing to my practicing (as in the Strum Machine”) and I find most RealTracks to complex.
I think there may be many users who would like to have an option like that. Some comments from users of the Strum Machine is that they have moved over from Band in a Box to Strum Machine because it is too complicated in BIAB.

(yes I know I could put in the chords and look up a style and deselect the instruments I don’t want and change the instruments to what I want but I never get it to sound as I want. The playing is too complex. I want a much simpler sound/playing like the Strum Machine see link above).

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Band-in-a-Box already has the functionality you request. What it doesn't have is the song library.

Take a look at the "Campfire" styles. Most are one or two acoustic guitars and bass. They should give you the simple backing tracks you desire.

Strum Machine has a 1,000 song library of campfire type songs. Midi files of many of those songs, and many more, are available for download from the internet. Import the midi file to obtain key, tempo and chord information. Save the song file and you have the song.

Unlike Strum Machine, once you've created your song library, you don't even have to access the internet to practice or pay a subscription fee.


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That is exactly how I am doing it today.
Sometimes it sounds ok but most time it does not sound as I want it to sound.
Everything sounds the same!
I have allmost all the styles there is but I can only find 8-10 campfire styles and they are basically only 2-3 different guitar strums that are used and then added second guitar, base, fingerpicking etc.
All songs sound more or less the same (often very lame) there is no way to get any variation in the intensity of strumming or variation.
Maybe whats needed are more "campfire" styles to chose from. I don't know. I only know that the backing track does not sound as I want it to sound.

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re strums.
if you want variety , experimentation is the key imho.
i just went into both the stylepicker and the real traks pickers .
lots of strums. acoustics, electrics ,12 strings etc etc.
just put in search the word strum or strumming.

just enter in the chord sheet a number of chords/changes, load an instrument,
etc etc. solo and export the strummed instrument to your daw.
also in your daw if you have an instant clik trak generator AND it allows sample insert; you can insert a strum as a sample, and it will strum away.

remember also choose a , for example, strummed acoustic, insert it on the soloist channel though and NOW go to solist in the menus, and choose generate a solo. EXPERIMENT. try the melodist also. i did a number of tests and found pretty simple strums like you wanted .

also if you dont want chord changes. and want simple, just enter one chord in the biab chord sheet.

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