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Hi Mario A lovely contemplative piece. Really well produced and constructed. I didn’t realise you were a soprano!! Excellent well done. Thanx Lee. No, I am not a soprano but my wife said "play one more joke on me and you will become a soprano" 
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This thread is a fine example why a slow rebuild should be automatically performed after a fresh install or build update. Yes, I agree.
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This thread is a fine example why a slow rebuild should be automatically performed after a fresh install or build update.
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Thanks, I'm returning to BIAB after quite a while, and I wasn't aware of playable real tracks. I will investigate this! Just FYI, the Playable Real Tracks temporarily switches out of RealTracks mode into MIDI mode, using samples from the same RealTrack file, so it's best to do it only for small tweaks like this. If one changes the whole track, it has now become, essentially, a MIDI track. Perfectly harmless, but loses the "Real" aspect, which is what we're usually after. Another option might be G/C, which should give a CMaj9(no3). That depends a lot, of course, on whether the '9' is acceptable in your song.
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It was the Rebuild that fixed it and got rid of them. This was a fresh install, and I didn't realize I needed to rebuild. I think even experienced users occasionally forget that and wonder what's going on. But going and doing a rebuild is one of the first steps if anything odd happens with the style picker. The other "first thing to try" with most odd behaviours is usually the "Return to Factory Settings (Most)".
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Hi Andrew, Well, I wasn’t expecting an instrumental from you, looks like you’ve gone out on a limb, taken a leaf out of Mario’s book and branched into something new. Although I did read in your blurb that instrumentals were what you were mainly producing a while back. A very in depth production and production video, far too intricate for me to do the same. But you’ve created a unique, very atmospheric piece which does capture the essence of being surrounded by a forest. Really well done, kind regards.
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Hi Mario A lovely contemplative piece. Really well produced and constructed. I didn’t realise you were a soprano!! Excellent well done.
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Top song Marty and Dave. Dave seemed to be channeling Gary Moore, so in that vein it is a bit bluesy. Yeah a great write, handled and produced professionally. Great stuff guys, kind regards
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Thank you Scott, glad your liked it and the imagery comment was very much appreciated. Kind regards
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This 18th century poet is lost for words. You have great songwriting sense Izzy, melodically, lyrically and vocally. This is yet another great song, I am so jealous of your talent. Terrific mate.
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How very unhelpful. Good thing I found them a few days ago.
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Hiding in plain sight and waiting for something interesting to happen.
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… This is very well done: Immediately engaging. Great arrangement. Excellent band. Nice soundstage on the monitors… Thanks J&B! I was glad that I could finally bring this tune to life, and the layered vocal challenge, while taking a lot of time and effort, produced a good result, I think. Clipchamp had a lot of video stock in its library, so the editing was quite straightforward. … This is wild, man. i didn't watch the documentary, but was fascinated by your 4-minute here's-how-i-did-it clip. Now i'm going back to listen agan. Very well done, Andrew. Thanks Marty! The how-to video didn’t show it, but initially I had recorded 144 ooo takes only, and while it sounded cool, it didn’t have enough attack and airy-ness, so I recorded another 72 aah takes which were also used for the chorus counter-melody. Thanks for listening and commenting! Andrew
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Andrew, Thank you! We both appreciate the kind words. Bob
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Thanks, It was the Rebuild that fixed it and got rid of them. This was a fresh install, and I didn't realize I needed to rebuild. thank you!
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I enjoyed this! Love the mellow vibe! Calming to listen to. 
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Vic, You are spot on, re: the solo voice's phrasing. I specifically asked the AI for it to be a spoken vocal from the "child" ... and it obeyed me right until about two-thirds into the song, when the "child" started to sing. Try as I might, I could not get a spoken voice all the way through ... the limitations of AI, I suppose. Still ... all in all, I decided to keep the "child" 's voice, because, although inconvenient, the mistake was not (in my view, at least) fatal ... Thanks so much for listening, and for your very kind comments!!!
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By default, only styles that you DO have are shown in the StylePicker. To include those that you don't have, you would need to click the Other button and select Show All Styles (including N/A). To clear this, you can press Clear Filter and it should only be showing you styles that you actually have. The other possibility is that you need to Rebuild if you haven't already, but it would notify you if you needed to do that.
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@ mario. re not being here much. apologies for not being on here much. the docs have limited me to a very short time each day for the pc/net... due to a loooong rehab after minor surgery. docs have been fantastic.....even played my songs in the hospital when i was conked out...ya know the stuff they give you. i'm starting to feel my old crazy self now....lmao. @Babu. thats very nice of you. the song was a challenge as i'm not american. i just like trying doing various vocal accents. (see songs in my sig.) sometimes people think its different vocalists...bamboozles them. fyi...and for any lurkers out there looking to buy pg packages. on this song i only used pg dx low pc resource plugins. there are lots of neat things one can do with them if one experiments. i suspect lots of new people dont maybe experiment and they bypass these plugins cos they are included free... Babu...thanks soo much for listening...it makes me happy to know in a crazy world i'm giving joy to some people. happiness. om
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Are they possible to hide. I would rather just see what I actually have access to. I don't see the option though. thank you.
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Thanks, I'm returning to BIAB after quite a while, and I wasn't aware of playable real tracks. I will investigate this!
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BIAB has power chords. These are two-note chords that only have the root and the fifth. As @dcuny mentioned, if you want a power chord without a third, simply use the '5': for example, C5 (notes = C and G), D5 (notes = D and A). These chords work both in major and minor settings because it is the missing third that determines if a chord is major or minor. With that in mind, to get (say) Cmaj7 (no 3rd) [notes = C G B], it would be possible to use C5 as the starting place. Using Playable Realtracks, you could then manually add the note B to the chord in either Notation Mode or Piano Roll Mode. The image below shows a B that I've added to a C5 chord. In other words, what you want can be done but it is a semi-manual process. It's not necessary to add the major 7th note to all tracks. Because it is a dissonance, it usually suffices to add it just to one instrument and let the other instruments play the standard X5 chord. A general rule of classical music theory is that because dissonances stand out to the ear, it is often better not to double them by placing them in multiple instruments as the resulting sound can be harsher than intended. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32757&filename=playable realtracks.jpg) Here are a couple of videos that explain playable Realtracks.
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RB and PTPA have always been a slow roll. For the most part pretty solid.
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Sorry for late my late replies, folks, I've been preoccupied with a few things this month. Big thank you to everyone who took the time to listen give such useful/validating feedback laurent, BD, Babu (I answer both to lingyai ("big monkey" in Thai or Ken)), Andrew (I'll give you those RT names when I'm at my music PC), MarioD, Ezekiel, WaoBand, and the Monger of Tunes  I appreciate it. Tracks like this get busy and I'm still learning about how to make them work, not only through EQ-ing etc but also through the arrangement to begin with. Glad this one did not belly-flop
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