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Hi Andrew, I have attached a screenshot of what happens when I try to audition the stylepicker. I do get a yellow box. Not a URL exactly but i have tracked down the corresponding demo and played it and it plays fine.
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Thanks but they couldn't help. At this point my only choice is to upgrade. AI told me it had to do with my computer chip and rosetta...but that is beyond my paygrade, LOL! :-)
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Chris, super song. Great blend of AI and BiaB. I enjoyed this.
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Izzy, a fantastic song. Great vocal and lyrics. Fantastic arrangement. Super mix. Great use of RTs, outstanding fiddle lead. IMHO this is your best to date.
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Let me work with this new version a bit and i will let you know if you will be happy. I'm using it right now. It's an excellent product - I just don't like the experience upgrading, for the reasons outlined. For example, with the new version, I don't know how many upgrades - if any - I'll be eligible for. And the jump from 2.7.04 to 5.0.00?  Sorry, I shouldn't be derailing the thread.
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@DrDan Still think the quick and not so dirty way is as I suggested. With the auto on, it for sure mimics your last bar for the rest of the song which of course will drift in/out of sync. What I do then is to adjust where needed and then you get a new set that mimics the new "last bar" for the remainder of the song. Keep on doing it until your at the end and you will have a tempo map. Maybe you only need to adjust every 10th bar line to get it right if the recorded audio is not too wobbly tempowise. If you're in for high precision then you may need to do the manual adjust a bit more frequent, I don't find it terribly time consuming. Otherwise I guess that importing an externally generated tempo map would require some software efforts and maybe it will happen ...
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Let me work with this new version a bit and i will let you know if you will be happy.
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Excellent work. Gorgeous song. I'd like to see a track list for this to see what BB tracks are used. Herb...thanks for listening...there were no BiaB tracks used on this cut of the song...Dan Oooo. You still got it, Dan!! 50 years of constant improvment shows. ANother outstanding uplifting song written so well with a fine pro production. Vocals are beautifully presented. What a powerful arrangement. Always the best. Marty...thanks for your gracious thoughts...I always appreciate them...Dan
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Bob and Joliz, you have another masterpiece on your hands. Bob, you are one of the best storytellers I have ever heard and the fact that you always pick the perfect music to compliment that is, at least to me, totally amazing. Joliz always does an outstanding supporting vocal, great work on this song. Loved it
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Andrew, this is very clever. A fantastic vocal with over the top lyrics. Super groove and guitar chops. A really good mix also. Loved it. PS - I don't know what you guys down there are smoking or drinking but I want some! You and Lee post some extremely interesting and excellent music.
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Thank you, Andrew, for such very insightful comments. You got my intentions in one. The gradual easing of instruments was intended, and it's funny you should mention Celine Dion ... I was thinking of "Immortality", a song by the Bee Gees that she sung with them on, as some sort of inspiration for this song. You are also spot on, in my view ... the last key change is indeed somewhat rough ... I couldn't find another way of doing it! Argh. But yes, I wanted a return to D Major, the start key, so ... we got there, somehow  Thank you again for taking the time to listen so carefully, and to comment so perceptively and kindly!
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Shigeki, loved the groove and arrangement. Great job on that AI vocal Outstanding nylon string guitar A perfect mix Loved it
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Major Update today to SMP v5 Yeah, but it's a paid upgrade for some of us - something that wasn't clear on their site. I'm running SMP 2.7.04 (the prior version), and checking for an update didn't show anything. So I went to the website and downloaded the latest version, and when I went to register it, I got the message: Registration Failed You have purchased a previous version of 'Song Master' and are eligible to upgrade to the current version. Please visit the Aurally Sound website to purchase the upgrade. Hrm. When I looked at the version of SMP Pro I'd purchased, there was nothing that indicated any sort of upgrade process.  When I logged onto the website, it said I was eligible for a discount, but refused to show the discount until I put it in the cart and looked at the cart. (The upgrade was $40). Great product, but I'm not happy by the marketing. 
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Lee, a fun and very good song. I liked your vocal and sound effects. The lyrics were great. Super mix A super song PS - I'll bet you could do a killer version of "Their coming to Take me Away"!
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FYI Major Update today to SMP v5 Extract high-quality stems for: Vocals, Drums, Bass, 'the rest'; Pro adds Guitar and Piano Two Stem Models: 4-stem and 6-stem (6-stem is in Pro only). The 4-stem model generally produces the highest quality, the 6-stem model separates Guitar and Piano. Control Stem Algorithm's Compute Time vs Quality. High setting is about twice as fast as Highest Trident extract stems on your computer so we do NOT send your audio to the cloud for processing. Because of this, the time to extract the stems depends on your cpu. We've added a Progress bar with estimated time to complete and abort button
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Haven’t heard anything. Haven’t looked either. A quick question about playing tablature, if you don’t mind. I understand the theory and always wondered if there could be some mathematical analysis of playing a passage that would result in the least finger movement. My question is, are there cases where this is not what you want? Where finger patterns are better even if there is more total ‘reaching’? For example, you might look at a trumpet player and assume any of the three valves is equally easy to play. Any pro trumpet player who says they are is lying. The first and second are far easier than the third, and it’s a good thing the third is used less. However, I often use alternate fingerings in quick passages where the total movement is easier. Hard to explain unless you play. Woodwinds are a better example, with all the two pinky fingers are expected to do. Fourth finger is the worst. Anything like that in the string world?
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OK, this was the fastest upgrade (which is not free) I have ever done! I barely reviewed the new content, I only know that I use this program almost daily! And there has not been a significant update in well over a year. The only think I do see is that this new version includes their sister product, PRISM! If you already own SMP the price is $39.95
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Thanks for letting me know, Dan.
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First of all, I follow this product very closely and communicate with developer frequently. He never told me about a new version. Second I live on their Facebook page and this says nothing about a new version. The link above shows only "documents". There is no ability to upgrade or pruchase a version v5? Perhaps I am not as connected as i thought and this change is happening on the web as we speak. I will refresh my buffers.
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Something strange here?? The links seem to go to PRISM not SMP. My SMP v2.7.04 says no new updates. Whats going on??
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Dan, ... Since a tempo map is just a file that has lots of small changes in tempo, if you have saved the tempo map that you created as MIDI, I'd try loading that into BIAB and see what happens. I'm not sure that this information will automatically be loaded into Bar Settings. It's worth a try, though.--Noel That does not work in BIAB.
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Thanks to both you guys in helping me! I was hoping for something new. Tempo Maping in ACW has never worked for me, based on how I want it to work. I have been surprized that few if any others have pointed the weaknesses out. Which is why I only bring this up every other year or two. Here is what has recently been reported regardign how the ACW works, "...It looks like you have to manually tempo map the entire song by inserting bar lines where all the downbeats are. When you have auto on it just merely mimics your last bar BPM which is interesting but not a real tempo map." I want BIAB to to exchange tempos with other music application by creating a feature to import or export, a true tempo map which aligns a project's timeline (grid) to the natural fluctuations of an unclicked audio or MIDI recording. This lets us retain a human groove while allowing MIDI, loops, and effects to quantize perfectly (synchronized) to the track's tempo in the event that a fixed tempo is not preferred. Primarily load a chord sheet from a midi file which includes a true tempo map, and then create RTs in synch with that map! Yes, this is generally done via importing a MIDI. The Standard MIDI File (SMF) can be formatted to share a tempo map across different music application as a .mid file. The MIDI data is typically placed on a dedicated, silent Track 1. It utilizes two specific types of meta-events: Set Tempo (stored in microseconds per quarter note) and Time Signature.Exporting: You share this by exporting or importing a project’s tempo track using "Export/Import MIDI" or "Export/import Tempo Map" functions. Why does BIAB not do this?
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