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I'm familiar with K-Pop, but this is my first exposure to J-Swing and, I must say, I'm impressed. There's an energy here that could turn any sorry-looking sad-sack into a toe-tapping jolly jiver. Well done.
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I think most of us can relate to that feeling Mario. I feel I never really knew what I wanted to be and hence fell into Accountancy, BORING!! I wish i'd found guitars and music in my teens but alas. You sure have captured that melancholy feeling.... why are you making me relive all the drudgery??? All kidding aside, another excellent recording full of appropriate feeling and sentiment played and arranged perfectly. Great job Mario. Thanx so much Lee. I was the same as you because I didn't know what I wanted to do, other than being a big rock star, and I fell into a research lab. Around the age of 21 a big record company wanted to record our band but thankfully a good lawyer pointed out all of the small print in the contract so we declined. It was then I quit the thought of becoming a full time musician. But a good job and a great wife helped the transition. It wasn't until the end of my career that things went bad, hence the song.
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I can't find anything in Save or Export or Render that writes an M4A file, yet I have some tunes that do have one. I'm not sure where they came from or what. Which option causes an M4A file to be generated? On which menu/button? Can I make an audio track with Realtracks? I have 2.0.6 Thanks!
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Hi there Christian There seems to have been a lot of great songs using folk instruments this week, and yours is no exception. Really love the mellow feel, but I'm partial to a bit of folk anyway. Really nice song, enjoyed it very much. Kind regards
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I feel your pain Herb. The only way to get a good MIDI drum track from BiaB is if the track has a RealChart. Then you just drag the track to the mid window in the DAW mode window. I have had zero success converting audio to MIDI in BiaB. I have had good to excellent success when converting an audio drum track to a MIDI drum track in Melodyne Editor. That was using a complete audio drum kit. I would think it would be easier to use the stems; don't know as I don't use stems. When I can't get good conversion results I grab Groovemonkee's MIDI drum loops. YMMV I hope this helps. I tried melodyne with equally unsatisfying results. I'll have another go at it but I'm not holding out much hope. I'm using the drums on the last song I put in the showcase in hopes of raising the bar on the track a little bit more
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Really nice song as always Bob. A really fresh upbeat number with great use of the mandolin, really enjoyed that. Amazing how simple structured songs seem to turn out the best. Great Job, kind regards
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So pro sounding on every level. The Harder They Come is a desert island album for me. Love the beat on this and Janice's (always) fantastic vocals. Guitar terrific as well. Well done, team!!! Wow … we could not hope for better comments. Thank you so much! J&B
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I think most of us can relate to that feeling Mario. I feel I never really knew what I wanted to be and hence fell into Accountancy, BORING!! I wish i'd found guitars and music in my teens but alas. You sure have captured that melancholy feeling.... why are you making me relive all the drudgery??? All kidding aside, another excellent recording full of appropriate feeling and sentiment played and arranged perfectly. Great job Mario.
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Hi Soren Yeah, really nice tune and progression, lots of atmosphere and tension. Excellent, kind regards
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Sorry to her about your problems Ajag. In order to help you we would need more information. Things about your computer like what is the OS, Win 7,8,10 etc or Mac? What is your CPU speed? How much RAM and HD space do your have. Giving us as much computer information as you can will help a lot. Also can upload a problem song or two? Upload them to a free site like Drobox then post the URL. That way we can look at the song(s) and maybe it will help us solve your problem.
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Hi Vic, Really nice use of some underused instruments, accordion and tin whistle. They've all be used and blended perfectly to produce a fine folk song. A few simple lyrics proves that you don't have to go overboard in the lyric writing process. Terrific Vic. kind regards
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Chay, you are a master of choosing and mixing RTs in to masterpieces. Your choice of backing and lead tracks are always the perfect choices. Adding the fact that your mixing skills are second to none doesn't hurt either. I really liked the photo slideshow also. Loved it.
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Bob and Joliz, you just produced another masterpiece Great vocals Bob fantastic guitar and mandolin The perfect backing band and mix I just listened to a great song today Loved it
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Zazah, country swing at its best, you really nailed the groove. A real toe tapper Great vocal and backing band Super mix I really liked this one.
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Chris, loved that backing band. Great use of the synth vocal - very haunting A perfect mix loved it
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Band in a box 2026 for windows. After it's release. I purchased the upgrade. I took time to learn about the new features and getting to know the UI, But when I started to create my songs. I could never complete them. due to a whole load of error massages and one very annoying message saying you exceeded your limit. I've only get as far as 4 tracts and 6 to 16 bars long. When that appears I can no longer work with that song. Even after saving it and reloading it I can not continue with it. I've been round and around and over and over again with customer support. and the problem still not solved. Today I been sat at my computer since 12.00 pm to 9.40 pm Malta time. waiting for an email to invite me to Team Viewer. That never came. Are there any others out there who had similar problem/issues and have how have you resolved them. Just to let you know after the downloaded version gave me problems I ordered the Hard drive version. That also gave me the same issued. That led me to have my computer checked for viruses, Bugs whatever. it came back to me with no issue and clean. If any one can help me I will be grateful. at the moment I feel let down.
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When I clcik on the link I get a "can't find the page" window come up. Same here
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Another beautiful instrumental and arrangement, Mario. Thoroughly enjoyable and super soothing and relaxing. I ended up in management in 3 jobs I had as I never liked taking orders from those I didn't respect. But then I had regional managers to contend with and most of those were heads that are a diminutive of Richard.  Thanx Chay. I hear you as I had a couple of lab heads that I didn't respect. They didn't like having a long haired and bearded person working for them. I fooled them as I finished with a lot more patents then they had.
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Wow, parallel work experience. Another take-me-away-somewhere-special song, Mario. Cool guitar tone and licks, and fine support from the bass. You always make that sax so good by feeding it some interesting melodies. Everything is so well played and mixed. Thanx Marty. I think a lot of us have had the same experience. I'm glad you noticed the bass as it can be hard for me at times to realize that I am playing bass and not a guitar.
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Hi, Mario. Nice work on the SWAM sax! And it wasn't dreary as the writeup made me fear! Thanx David. I was able to retire before it got real bad. The research area I was in got sold then got sold again to another company and those whom stayed throughout got screwed on their retirement. If I had stayed and wrote a song I don't think PGM would allow me to post it here!
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Very cool and moody, Mario. Your playing is excellent as always, but I was mesmerized by the bass on this one. It really set the scene for my listen. The waves of tension and release are sublime. Super narrative flow in your arrangement. Very relatable topic. I could go on...and on... Thanx Ron. I'm glad you noticed the bass in this one. I really like to play bass and should do it more often, but there are a lot of things that I should do more often! I'm glad you liked it.
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I liked the feel of this. I can relate to the "monday blues". I used to dread getting up to go into work when I was working at a job that paid well as a supervisor in a factory. Once I started my own business, doing what I loved to do, that entire POV changed. Do what you love and you'll never work a single day..... that's true. Now that I've gone into semi retirement, the day of the week matters even less. A while back I went to my doctor for a "wellness checkup". Part of the exam is mental cognitive abilities. The little girl (aka:nurse) asked me what the date was today. I looked at her and said, I really don't know and I don't care. I don't even keep track of the days of the week. I'm retired, I don't wear a watch so I can't even tell you what time it is. And to be totally honest, I haven't worried about days or dates since before I retired. I'm not going daft, it's just that none of that matters to me. She said something to the effect that she wished she could live like that. Thanx Herb. Yes your prospective changes once you are retired. I'm glad that the rat race is over.
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Hi Mario! Your use of arpeggio gives the impression of time ticking away - on and on. Or is that the sound of the bean-counters counting their beans. I say this as a former bean counter - now a has-bean counter. I agree with others about the melancholy and drudgery feeling. In saying all that though, 4:30 went quite quickly! Well done! Andrew Thanx Andrew I'm glad you liked it. "a has-bean counter" LOL!
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I know that feeling, Mario. This tune sounds like you learned to live with it. My song about it wouldn't be as peaceful.  Nicely done though. Vic Thanx Vic. Mine wasn't so harsh because I was able to retire early and get out of that mess just before things got really bad. Our saying back then is "the difference between this place and the Titanic is that the Titanic had a band"!
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