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Good point - perhaps the Chord Sheet should advance also, but you're right, it currently does not.
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Glad you were able to fix it. So, it seems some audio files were missing from your folder.
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So I am tring to get some sweet guitar licks to play over my backing tracks following my tempo map. Tonalic will read my audio file and create a variable map of the tempo which it uses to play the tonalics over the chords I enter. Something BIAB was never able to do unless I am missing something. I have the free esssential Tonalics which is way too limited (I have never put it in any of my final music projects). But for $45 I can buy the whole package. My question to you all, has anyone made any real music which they have reelased using Tonalics?
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I have a tempo map from a live performance. The tempo is 95 bpm in 3/4 time, but the tempo is variable from start to end. So how do I input, insert, transfer, paste or what ever to get BIAB to use my tempo map when generating RTs?
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Marty, the perfect backing band for a train song. Great fiddle! Super vocal and lyrics. Great mix. Loved it
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James, loved that intro. That AI vocal was fantastic. Loved the lyrics. Super strings and nylon string guitar. Super chord progression. IMHO this is your best to date . Loved it
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I don’t find any of them work that well to many artifacts to use the stems in a song project I admit, artifacts can be a frequent problem when using stems in a song project, but "...you have not found "any" of them that work for you?" Do you use SMP? I find a lot of them work well (at least well enough when combined with other audio and midi tracks) in my song projects. Todays project had a nasty artifact in the guitar stem when using SMP. I switched to UVR and no artifacts at all in the track.
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Alan, that is a million dollar quartet! The mix was spot on and you did a fantastic job with those RTs I'm glad you are back. Loved it. PS I was busy Sunday night also. I was snoring up a storm 
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Wonderful piece, Shigeki, and very good lyrics to match. Thought I might miss your usual use of East-West strings, but the song was strong without them. You are a master, no doubt.
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"The title of this song has nothing to do with the song." i dunno, Mario. That flute is begging to differ, and the rest of the group comes in to confirm. This is just the kind of music that clears aways life's storms. Very cool when the French horn came in as if it sunshine, then the flute restated its conviction by immitating birds excited about all the exposed worms. Thanx Marty. I'm glad my music enables you to visualize various schemes. That is my musical goal.
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Mario, Forget the yardwork, just write us stunningly beautiful music, just like this one!  Love it all. Love the diminished chords ... a beautiful, optimistic track! Really, really wonderful. A joy to hear. Nice harmonic change at 2:30, with a return to the original key at around 3:00. One of your best, most pleasant tracks. I'm off to hear it again Thanks!!! Thanx James. I would love to forget my yard work but I have to get it done quickly between storms. We had another one today!
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I feel like I am at a concert hall with the lights down low. A standing ovation after the performance. Smooth transition from the vocal to the violin. And then they both interact well together. Thanx so much Scott.
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Thank you Laurent, I agree. If you didn’t know anything about the game or TV series, you’d probably be scratching your head wondering what the song is all about and why would anyone want to sing about a ghoul. But the video does answer that somewhat. The song befits the game but it’s not the sort of song I would want to be continuously making, it’s a bit generic and not musically artistic. But I was happy with the result, it met the brief and it was a bit of fun. Thank you Laurent, kind regards.
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Thank you Marty Very kind feedback indeed. Glad it made you smile, even though it’s not the happiest of themes… apocalypses n’all. It was an idea just waiting to be plundered. We set the challenge six weeks ago and it just came to me as I sat playing the game. The central character is just so iconic in a bizarre way. And the game translated so well into the tv series. Quite often PC games turn out a bit lame when they make a series or film about them. Not the greatest song musical theory-wise, but everything works well together in its simplicity. Thanks Marty, kind regards.
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Thank you Andrew Yeah, I really liked the Cello, as soon as I heard it I thought that’s staying in. It really drives it when it kicks in and as you say it has percussive qualities. Likewise Andrew, I always enjoy our sessions. Lots of ideas, banter, knowledge and ailment sharing! Hope you get into Fallout. Like all games it’s a learning curve and there’s a fair bit going on in it, so far as upskilling as you go along. I reckon if I’ve done 5% I’d be lucky. I bought it during a sale supposedly at about 40 bucks on PlayStation. Be warned, time disappears quickly when playing means time away from music! Thank you Andrew, I appreciate your feedback and insight. Kind regards
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James, You always write such kind and thoughtful reviews. Thank you so much. We appreciate you! Bob
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Hi Andrew What I like and find fascinating about this song is that even though line upon line the lyrics don’t have any connection, my brain is still trying to find a connection and make sense of it. And at the end of it, it’s convinced that there is some structural meaning to the song. It’s a bit like Across The Universe, in that abstract way, although I hasten to say I think ATU has a tad more meaning. I think the stripped back and clean arrangement works really well, as it gives the listener a good chance to hear the disconnections and mess with their thought processes. I'm always surprised how all three of us have completely different takes on the same challenge, it’s good. What? I have never heard such complete and utter nonsense! So you have absolutely nailed this months brief Andrew. Great stuff Andrew
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Hi Marty! You did well to get all those words out! Me - I’d be tripping over every third syllable. You’ve done a good job documenting a piece of history. I still find it amazing how much was built with limited tech in what is a relatively short time ago. I love the video, and those passengers love the fiddle solo too - in particular the quadruplet sisters sitting either side of the aisle. Andrew
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Hi, Bob. Excellent, as usual. The horns work really well.
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I don’t find any of them work that well to many artifacts to use the stems in a song project
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Yep! Your subconscious is screaming at ya, Andrew. Man, i really enjoy how you guys challenge each other. ANd what a fine acceptance of K-DUb's recent one. I love the flighty melody. The vocals are so good. Nonsense is a great subject for a song. You make this one perfectly nonsensical. Oh, it's over? Got hear it again. Yes, I do have a propensity for nonsense, and fully admit that I am some way along the quirkiness spectrum. I like to think of it as lateral thinking pushed to extremes. Yes, the three of us get great delight in hearing each of our responses to the current challenge. We should go back and replay some of these but always too busy with the next assignment. Our third member now has BIAB2026 so K-Dub and I are encouraging him to record and post to this forum … we’ll see. Mission accomplished then! … This reminds me of when I was working with Markov Chains to generate lyrics. It would output text that had local coherence, by taken as a whole was rambling nonsense. Fun stuff. David - I had to look up Markov Chains - it’s given me an idea for a new song theme - ‘My life is like a Markov Chain’ where each life episode moves me to a new situation in a range of foreseen possibilities. I’m sure I’ve met people who live that way! Thank you Marty, Floyd and David for listening and commenting. Andrew
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Hi, Marty. That's a lot of information to pack into a little song. I had to listen to it a second time... and then got distracted looking up the history of the Harvey Girls. 
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James, Excellent tune . . . wonderful production job by Suno. It's a lovely write to boot, delivered just perfectly by the vocalist. Two small nits for me: I would have liked that third one to read " . . . my voice cracked" rather than "my voice did crack," which seems a bit too poetic and awkward phrasing. The other is simply what David mentioned at the 4:03 mark . . . not sure what happened to Suno there. You could try to regenerate that section of the song, or the whole song, then download the stems for each of the songs and do some mixing and matching to smooth it out. Sadly, just something you occasionally have to do with Suno. But beyond those very, very minor (and not all that necessary) suggestions . . . this is a stellar tune. Just a beautiful write. Deej
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Hi, James. As noted, a very pretty song. It seems like Suno had trouble tracking those quick changes at 4:03. The change in vocal timbre at 4:14 caught me by surprise. I thought for a moment it was intentionally a different singer, but I guess that's just a thing Suno does. Looking forward to when you get some time again!
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Hi Shigeki! I love these Latin styles and you have used this one very well in your song. I’m wondering - how long ago did you write it, and has the song evolved at all during this time? I ask because I too have old unrecorded songs that are waiting. Wonderful words of love to whomever is the intended recipient - they work wonderfully with the music. Andrew
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