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I particularly like the lyrics as songs in Korean, Chinese, Japanese and other Far East nations have a poetry to them which you don't find in Western songs. I also enjoyed the mix and the change of tempos. The only thing I'm not keen on is SynthV vocals, but that's just personal taste.

Short answer: I don’t know. Longer answer with guesses: I believe that if you load a PG Music style and demo it, you are accessing MP3s on their website unless you have downloaded all the MP3 files to audition it locally. Because I think I read that they are MP3, even if they are instead WMA files (Windows BIAB version), they are still compressed and therefore would not suitably demonstrate any sound difference between compressed and audiophile. If I’m wrong and the demos are generated locally each time, then I would guess that BIAB would use the best available (WAV, FLAC, WMA in that order) just like a user song. And if the demos are coming from the PG Music website, I would expect that 2025 and later demo files could be FLAC. They aren’t that much bigger than MP3s. However, since the quality would be the same as audiophile it could be considered misleading. We really need PG Music to clarify. Summary: I don’t know. Great question.

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Do the style demos from BIAB use the audiophile version? Specifically, the demos in style picker, real tracks picker, and, when available, new styles posted on the web site. I’m using the UltraPak 2025 and wondered if the provided demos reflect my version, or something else.

How can you be reluctant to lay down such a fine bass track, Ray? b-version comments, but I heard little difference between the two, so it's not my ears you'll want. Oh, yes, on the Pink Floyd. Love this, Ray. I agree with Bob that it's tough to give advice to someone who is as accompplished at this stuff as you are. My only advice would be to keep spitting your creativity at it. This may be the first time I've said I like your vocal toward the back. The harmony is so cool. If I had your sliders in front of me, I'd make some changes but I'm not sure what they'd be, or that you or anyone else would deem them improvements. A song this good cannot be ruined by opinions. I'm looking forward to hearing more of your spit on this one as well as the changes you'll incorporate from the more capable commentors.

Love the piano. Love the Drums!!! Good bass. I'd bump it slightly (1 dB or less) The overall sound is cool. Vocals (0507) a bit heavy on the reverb, making the lyrics difficult to "hear". (a suggestion - sometimes works, sometimes not...mix in a completely dry vocal at a VERY low level with all the lows dropped out. It can add some clarity without having to change anything else.) Looking forward to the video! This is cool. fj

You guys are so dang good. Consistently over-the-top on so many levels. Love the lyrics, vocals, guitars, melody, production, mix and video. A wonderful package on another terrific collab, Scott & Robert.

BA, Your best guitar work (in a long line of good work). Top-shelf soloing. Nice note choices, cool tight patterns. Hitting both expected and unexpected places. Musical. Y'all write the Best Rock songs! Love the vocals and harmonies. Good drums, good mix. Marty is so solid, it just becomes expected... Artists at work. fj

A wonderfully stripped down background group to make room forthat vocal. Very well done, James. Good accent too --cool rolling Rs. Very deep tone that grabs ya. Great band, too.

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HAHA. Thanks, Tom. Yeah, that NO just had to be said. Slackers get no sympathy. Time is on our side when used wisely I guess. And you know we always love your comments, Mario. Thanks for listening. The Universe In Four Verses, another cool title. Thanks for all your kind words, Floyd. Thanks, Deej. Much appreciated.

Oh yeah. Love it. A huge, well blended sound. Awesome vocals. Terrific bass and guitars. I did want a little more of the guitar on the right side (the left side pulled my ear). Good write throughout. But let's talk about that Chorus! Something special. A Great Chorus. The line repeat is overlooked these days. And then it builds perfectly after that. Killer. fj

Thanx Beth. I used to get Mad magazine! It was hilarious. That volume issue is weird as I always normalize to -3 dB. I will be sure to check that out.

Glad you liked it and we completely agree. It’s hard to escape. We see it everywhere. J&B

Nice to hear from you. Your description helps us feel that we met our objective. It definitely lead us off our beaten music path. 😀 We three thank you! J&B

Thanks! Yes cool and weird was the hoped for outcome. 😀 J&B

I can't understand what 'simple arrangement' does, because to me it seems to do absolutely nothing. Even with a simple pop style, a very simple chord progression such as I-vi-IV-V, and 'simple arrangement' for that track, it's totally cuckoo, BB slaps a brilliant C sharp out of nowhere. Pic attached. I am forced to just write 'chords' such as G5 to kill as many notes as possible, but even then sometimes I find seconds. In this same track, a pop piano was playing the chord F as a cluster, with notes D and E rammed into the chord. With 'simple arrangement'. Just incredible. Not to mention, why does BB plays the seventh? There's written G there, if I wanted G7, I would have written that. BB seems to be like a deaf chef who puts too much spice in his food: you can shout all you want how you want the food the way YOU like it, but he just doesn't get it. Why does PG Music seems to assume that we don't know our chords, and it tries to think for us? As I suggested elsewhere: an option to play - only minor and major triads - seems to be painfully missing in this program. If that were there, for me BB would be an INCREDIBLE program.

Thank you Marty. We knew it was weird and are gratified to read your comments. Hey, yesterday we saw a guy holding out his phone while pushing his bike in heavy traffic. 🤷‍♂️ We much appreciated ALL of your thoughts. J&B

Spirit Level continues to put out Good Music. Y'all's rockin' stuff is excellent. Always. Good write. Good Production. Good vocals. Good guitar. Good mix. A lot of Good. fj

An interesting piano choice. Good to hear you singing again... fj

And perpetual growth in a system where that isn't possible. Perhaps everything doesn't need to be corporate. Private businesses need to make money, too. Enough money to pay the employees, and have enough left over for the owner. Increases that match the rate of inflation are important. Anything more is good, but not mandatory. A corporation generally has 49% of the owners that are not participating in the corporation. They expect a return on their investment that continually increases. If the increase matches the rate of inflation, there is no sense holding the stock. If the increase is less than the rate of a savings account, why hold the stock? So a corporation is locked into a more, more, more syndrome, if it doesn't do that, it goes under. A corporation needs perpetual growth, which is not possible in a closed system like planet Earth. Karl Marx knew this, but history proved that his attempt at a solution was not the answer. If you take out a loan to finance your business, it's possible to pay the loan off. If you use stockholders, the loan never gets paid off, and the interest payments grow constantly. An item like a DAW starts out, and every year there are improvements, which makes the profit the 49% who don't work at the company happy. But then the product matures, and there isn't much, or anything left to make the existing owners of the product worthy of their money. What to do? With mechanical things, you can shorten the life cycle with parts that will last so long, but not too long before they need to be replaced. With fashion, they make what you own in your closet so "last year" requiring you to buy new clothes before the old ones wear out. There are plenty of other ways that result in planned obsolescence. Well, you can't do that with software, so if you can't offer something new that the customer thinks is worth his/her hard-earned money, the trend is to rent the product instead of sell it. We call that a subscription service. When the company turns to subscription, there is no need to improve the product, you just need to fork over more money for what you thought you already owned. If not, the corporation goes belly-up. Perhaps the guy who invented Cakewalk, could have kept it, instead of selling it to a corporation that needs perpetual growth. So what is the solution for that? I don't know. Sell it to a small company who can exist on the reduced sales of new customers? Have the corporation invent something new, unrelated and innovative enough to keep the perpetual growth of the stockholders interests happy while keeping the mature product for help but not the main focus? I know that once it gets to the rental stage, instead of the ownership stage, I lose interest in it. I have no moral obligation to keep a corporation alive that isn't delivering something worthy of the money to me. Some people buy their car some people lease, some people buy their house, some people rent. I'm the buy type for things that are important to me. I bought my guitars, saxophones, and other musical instruments, along with my house and car. On the other hand, companies like PG Music have done a good job keeping the product alive by offering new, innovative features to the software. I remember the days of 3 instruments, no user styles, no intros or endings, a quantized, limited drum grid, and only 24 built-in styles. This is all thinking out loud, so I reserve the right to change my mind as I think about it more, and get more information. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

this whole method is fiddly and impractical. In fact, useless. I am not trying to fix 'one note', but one note for a chord that is being played dozens of times. What a waste of time. I'll just kill the whole track

Ray, It's hard for me to give production advice on someone else's vision. I can tell you that I like this one very much. Your vocal sounds good with a lo-fi feel. I think it fits this piece well. I also really like the way the mix feels. It certainly has a Pink Floyd / early Bowie feel. Bob

Hello, It sounds like you have found a solution to your question, but does Bm7/D bring about an option to solve your question, or does it not produce a D major triad in the right hand? Tom Marvan.

Wow! Impressive video! Well done. Jeff