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pitb. i feel compelled to comment. i havent had time to be on these user forums like normal due to various family aspects/problems to deal with. but heres my 2c fwiw. 1. YOU HAVE NOT SUGGESTED A BETTER ALTERNATIVE BETTER MUSIC CREATION SOLUTION. for example in a typical daw software in the past one had to laboriously create track after track which could take ages. with this new biab/rb software paradigm it means a song creator like myself can get a song idea down faster than traditional approaches and try lots of different chord arrangement ideas. frankly i wish i had have had this software when i started writing songs decades ago. in summary in the world of music software the rb/biab combo is unique. i know of no other product that competes. do you ?? for example ezdrummer is just drums, and can get rather pricey, whereas with rb/biab your getting much more than just drums. ive tried every approach out there. 2. you ask for album examples, but the software hasnt been out there in the market for years n years. so obviously it takes a time for albums to appear. thus your more likely to hear single songs. which of course will vary in quality cos many folks are getting familiar with the product. for me i can tell you i wouldnt be doing elevator music. it would be rock all the way mate and/or some MOR. 3. lets look at a typical album production cost. it can easily run over 150k includeing session musicians in a major studio. in many cases much much more. how many people can afford that ?? ive done original songs on everything from bouncing useing two cassette deks thru 2 inch pro multitrack thru useing hi end mega studios, and in the latter tho a nice environment i was going broke fast i can tell you. frankly my only bitch is the pg pricing particularly for someone like myself with other family responsibilities that stress me. i would urge pg to consider lowering prices a tad. 3. the other aspect is the rb/biab software engineering itself. i speak from decades of building software, and thus pg have my greatest respect for bringing these products to market. cos its not trivial software engineering imho. in fact i'll go further and say my recommended music creation combo right now is pg's rb/biab and reaper. with respect pitb i would suggest you look at things in the following context. a song to my mind is akin to building a house. you start off with a foundation, gradually build up the house and then add the fancy bits the wife wants..lol. similarly consider biab/rb for trying out lots of different song foundations, then once you get that "aha moment" get your bed traks right from biab/rb and drop em into reaper (or your other preferred traditional software, samp or ptools or cubase or sonar etc) and then add your final vocals and lead up front traks and do final mixing. of course you could do everything in rb/biab if you wish. but different people use different approaches.
as i said show me a better solution to rb/biab. i'm all ears and havent seen one. please dont mention "painting loops". i tried that once..drove me nuts. its easy to knock anything, but imho the rb/biab plus real tracks so one can have real session musicians on ones songs is a significant breakthrough in music software engineering. as others have said its how the user uses the tool . all the best.
retired puter engr....powertracks on amd......NICE ! "what is the black art of audio engineering ?" my silly songs...motagator.com/bmanning see my tips in the tips section.
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Band-in-a-Box® 2024 German for Windows is Here!
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Download and install this to your RealBand 2024 for updated print options, streamlined loading and saving of .SGU & MGU (BB) files, and to add a number of program adjustments that address user-reported bugs and concerns.
This free update is available to all RealBand 2024 users. To learn more about this update and download it, head to www.pgmusic.com/support.realband.htm#20245
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Update your Band-in-a-Box® 2024 for Windows® Today!
Update your Band-in-a-Box® 2024 for Windows for free with build 1111!
With this update, there's more control when saving images from the Print Preview window, we've added defaults to the MultiPicker for sorting and font size, updated printing options, updated RealTracks and other content, and addressed user-reported issues with the StylePicker, MIDI Soloists, key signature changes, and more!
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Band-in-a-Box® 2024 Review: 4.75 out of 5 Stars!
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A few excerpts:
"The Tracks view is possibly the single most powerful addition in 2024 and opens up a new way to edit and generate accompaniments. Combined with the new MultiPicker Library Window, it makes BIAB nearly perfect as an 'intelligent' composer/arranger program."
"MIDI SuperTracks partial generation showing six variations – each time the section is generated it can be instantly auditioned, re-generated or backed out to a previous generation – and you can do this with any track type. This is MAJOR! This takes musical experimentation and honing an arrangement to a new level, and faster than ever."
"Band in a Box continues to be an expansive musical tool-set for both novice and experienced musicians to experiment, compose, arrange and mix songs, as well as an extensive educational resource. It is huge, with hundreds of functions, more than any one person is likely to ever use. Yet, so is any DAW that I have used. BIAB can do some things that no DAW does, and this year BIAB has more DAW-like functions than ever."
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