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In BIAB I know there is the Conductor to do live gig loops, jumps, repeats... but don't think it can do what I want.
What I want to do is, in real time with MIDI keys or QWERTY, at a random time in the chart selected by me, mute all instruments except for a bass or drums solo. And then at a desired time after an 8 or 16 bar bass or drum solo, bring all instruments back in and continue to end.
Any way to make BIAB or RealBand do this ? Or is this something for Ableton Live or ... ?
Tnx for any help,
Bob
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Can you use Alt+2 to mute all and then you can play the live drum/bass solo then Alt+2 to bring the BB instruments back. MIDI HotKey Portable will send HotKeys from your MIDI Keyboard https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=507168#Post507168EDIT: not sure if you mean the drums and bass are live playing or BB, if it's BB you can mute the others, MIDI HotKey might send multiple ? if not AutoHotKey will. Muting Parts Alt+2 Mutes all tracks Alt+3 Mutes the Bass track Alt+4 Mutes the Piano track Alt+5 Mutes the Drums track Alt+6 Mutes the Guitar track Alt+7 Mutes the Strings track Alt+8 Mutes the Melody track Alt+9 Mutes the Soloist track Alt+0 Mutes the Thru track
Last edited by Pipeline; 01/30/19 07:53 PM.
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Many thanks for the prompt and helpful answer Pipeline.
Yup, that will do what I want. BIAB is so feature rich its hard to find the answers sometimes- I even looked in the docs.
Last question: do your solutions also work in Real Band ?
Bob
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You can also go into song settings and bar setting and chose which tracks mute and where. Then chose where they unmute
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In RB just use volume automation to mute each track you want to mute and unmute.
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You can also go into song settings and bar setting and chose which tracks mute and where. Then chose where they unmute O/P asked for ' in real time with MIDI keys or QWERTY, at a random time in the chart selected by me' I don't think that this suggestion could be done as a real-time, random operation?
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...do your solutions also work in Real Band ?
Bob RealBand you should be able to use Conductor, just try putting a blank section of track using midi after the ending, or use the metronome to write a midi track a bit longer than the song and turn the volume down, set the number of bars to a few more than where the song ends, with the Conductor you can then get it to loop those blanks bars in that new section while you play the drum/bass solo then return back to the song with the Conductor. If I think of a better way will let you know.
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