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"You do not have much instrumental choices in first chosen style. I am talking mostly about drums here and also some accent stuff, licks etc. So they do not get overused throughout the song."
Regardless of the instrument, whether it is Audio, Samples, Loops, Midi, Supermidi or RealTracks or in any combination of these different sound sources, the instrument limitation you're placing on BIAB Intros stem from your lack of knowledge of BIAB programming capabilities and not its functionality. It seems you are (no pun intended here although it's a good one) thinking "in the box" of the way BIAB is marketed rather than how it can be made to work.
BIAB does not have to be programmed to choose a Style of selected instruments, enter chords and generate a sound track. The 8 Mixer Channels can all be used for programming a single track of one instrument at a time. Finish an instrument and move to the next. In your example above, that would be drums. A single render of a BIAB project 4 bar intro could be 32 instances of midi drums. Four bars of your 96 bar song could be a single render of a guitar part comprised of 16 different guitar RealTracks arranged into a single 4 bar stereo render of a riff. Created once and used 50 times in your song. All of this done in addition to the Main Song structure and arrangement. BIAB, simply stated, does not have the limitations you credit to it.
Here's two examples using BIAB with its current 8 Channel Mixer:
An example of a 4 bar intro programmed with only midi: Each Bar of every Channel can accept a patch change. 4 bars X 8 Channels = 32 patch changes which equates into 32 different instruments in your 4 bar Intro.
An example of a 4 bar intro programmed with only RealTracks: RealTracks accept an instrument change every two bars. So, a track of 4 bars in an intro can have two separate RealTrack instruments. 2 instruments per track X 8 channels is 16 different instruments in a four bar intro. In any combination. Each instrument can be different. It can be a combination of a few instruments alternating throughout the song. Very complex arrangements can be quickly done in BIAB in nearly unlimited combinations of length and with the instruments they're comprised of. A subtle benefit here is they can all play simultaneously if you want.
The BIAB Intro can be programmed separately from the remainder of your song's Main Style or Styles. If you have a 4 bar intro that will ever require more than 32 instrument changes, feel free to let us know and i'm sure you'll get the assistance for your project.
It's not an awkward process at all and is very straightforward.
Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 09/28/18 07:48 AM.
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