Huh! It might be best thing since sliced bread for Music Student but ACW is giving me the 'hump'! OK OK so ive not used it for ages but now I cant use it at all. Back in the good old days I just used to load an mp3 into ACW and it'd have a good Go at putting the chords up. Not always right but I could live with that Now it does weird stuff I dont want like waveforms and resizing my mixer window. Go figure. So-how do I simply ask ACW to analyse chords from an mp3 - and nothing else??Can it still be done the old fashioned way? Wenders
BiaB2022PLUS,927. every extras pack I can find ;-),Sonar7XL,Win 10
The ACW is imbedded into Band-in-a-Box (instead of a separate program) and if you don't want to hear the audio file after importing it, you can mute it in the Mixer.
the nice vid shows shenandoah, a slow song….but where i run into probs is often on a fast song with getting bar lines correct. cos of play speed. is there any possibility you could add a slow down feature ?? maybe its my own stupidity but i find faster songs give moi a problem.
i have several songs done originally on 2 inch tape using 2 inch mtr studio tech with obviously slight variations. it would be wonderful if i could update some of these songs with rt//rd's from biab.
and what would bring me into ecstasy would be a built in spleeter feature that worked flawlessly with the ACW, which opens up all sorts of great ideas..like adding new vocs to old songs or extra background vocs.
or for example if i didnt like the original bass i could split it out and thus add a new biab bass rt. the possibilities are exciting. i appreciate i'm asking too much…its just the possibilities i find exciting in bringing old songs back to life by updating them. also lots of us that once recorded in commercial recording studios only kept the stereo masters for various reasons.
i'm sure if these ideas could be incorporated in ACW , loads of musos around the world with old stereo masters would be really happy people.
i KNOW its a tough ask…but if pulled off …..oh the possibilities. might even mean a new market for pg.
happiness.
om
Last edited by justanoldmuso; 07/25/2212:20 PM.
my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..) https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs (90 songs created useing bb/rb) (lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)
Huh! It might be best thing since sliced bread for Music Student but ACW is giving me the 'hump'! OK OK so ive not used it for ages but now I cant use it at all. Back in the good old days I just used to load an mp3 into ACW and it'd have a good Go at putting the chords up. Not always right but I could live with that Now it does weird stuff I dont want like waveforms and resizing my mixer window. Go figure. So-how do I simply ask ACW to analyse chords from an mp3 - and nothing else??Can it still be done the old fashioned way? Wenders
The original ACW still works in RealBand. Perhaps that is helpful in some way if that's the version you prefer to use.
BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.
Huh! It might be best thing since sliced bread for Music Student but ACW is giving me the 'hump'! OK OK so ive not used it for ages but now I cant use it at all. Back in the good old days I just used to load an mp3 into ACW and it'd have a good Go at putting the chords up. Not always right but I could live with that Now it does weird stuff I dont want like waveforms and resizing my mixer window. Go figure. So-how do I simply ask ACW to analyse chords from an mp3 - and nothing else??Can it still be done the old fashioned way? Wenders
The original ACW still works in RealBand. Perhaps that is helpful in some way if that's the version you prefer to use.
Gosh!Never thought of good old RB.thank you so much.Just tried it and RESULT! Wenders
BiaB2022PLUS,927. every extras pack I can find ;-),Sonar7XL,Win 10
The original ACW still works in RealBand. Perhaps that is helpful in some way if that's the version you prefer to use.
Gosh!Never thought of good old RB.thank you so much.Just tried it and RESULT! Wenders
Fantastic. Glad it worked for you. Happy to help.
BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.
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