https://soundcloud.com/kybordr/ghost

This is a song I wrote last month for Song A Week Challenge, although this version is a bit different. Better I hope.

I'm slowly exploring Band In A Box more deeply. The drums and bass here are BIAB, using rests and hits for my first time :-O

****** Song Summary *************
Key=C , Tempo 90, Length (m:s)=2:29
Style is ALANIS1.STY (Alanis 1 - Med. Arena Rock)
Style MIDI Instruments are : Finger Electric Bass (34), 6/4 EP Phase, GM2 Bank 4, Acoustic Piano (1), Strings (49),
MIDI Drums :17 Power Drums (17)
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The rest is me, recording and mixing in Cubase.

I just discovered the simple drag-and-drop to move MIDI (or WAV) parts from BIAB to Cubase without writing intermediate files! Been there all along but what a great help :-) In this recording the BIAB-generated bass and drum MIDI parts were moved to Cubase, lightly edited and rendered using its HALion engine. The piano rendering is Pianoteq 6 using its modeled Kawai K2. Interestingly (?) I have a physical KG-2 -- which I love -- but micing that sucker and getting it to sound good is a chore so for most recordings I've been using Pianoteq.

Anyway ... a bitter song about broken expectations. Fortunately, based on someone else's life experiences, not mine.

~Ghost~
You took a chapter from that book about departure,
perfectly captured what goes on inside that heart you’re
so concerned about somehow.
You’re a ghost to me now.

You stole the last scene from some ancient tragic movie
where the hero hasn’t held some secret magic about
who they would and won’t allow.
You’re a ghost to me now.

If these thoughts confuse you, let me state the moral clearly.
The meaning of the words you use to tell your sorry story
I fear is lost on me.
I make this vow: you’re a ghost to me now.

You made a choice between the empty and the torment.
Something you could not see would leave you without comment
as you take the stage to bow.
You’re a ghost to me now.

You face the future in the light of past transgression.
You can leave it all in due course, you can leave the last impression of
why you left and how.
You’re a ghost to me now.