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tip 008. Blue Jam sub dirs.
in the bb directory youll see 2 blue jam sub directories.
if you go into em youll see lots of biab icons to clik on.
what i did was clik on each one in turn n listen to the jam.
then modify the jam to see what i get.
eg either a patch change or a real instrument.
in real drum prefs if you notice is a dialog to sub into a midi song
real drums. i set it to always as a test.
it seemed that biab selected the appropo RD for the particulAr jam.
why am i going thru each jam in turn ??
n modifying it ??
well i might come up with a new song idea or progression.
which i then save to my special favs folder leaveing the original jams
untouched in their dir.
so lets summarise..dont like the default midi sound ?? change it
and/or sub in a real instrument.
remember you can also generate an intro for more ideas.
heres an interesting idea.
just solo the allocated RD's in these jams..
mebe you can use em in a song. or mebe a particular instrument riff will be usefull.
another thing to experiment with is the RD picker while a jam is playing.
leaveing the dialog open while double clicking on various RD's n seeing how they fit.
just one example ..the blue jam 60...subbed a jazz brushes RD.
remember you czan always change the chords also.
everything is changeable for experimentation.
i cant afford all the RD's//audiophile etc etc , but biab was doing a good job with
what RD's i had..i even subbed in hiphop RD on one jam, and a country RD
on another. sounded great.
another idea..you could in fact just clik on various jams at various bpm's
with the RD soloed n build up a lib of drum traks you could save to a special
seperate folder in your seperate daw multitrack software.
dropping in the drum traks.
heres another idea. in one specific jam i got this loverly mini
drum solo. this is another area i'm exploring in biab..
useing it to create drum solos like a real drummer would.
now people will say to me.."why arent you useing the biab menus
n file open" ??
the answer is simple. i weanna get down deep n not miss anything.
this way by going thru every single biab song file where they appear
in each dir and cliking on the biab icon i wont miss anything.
lets take an example. bring up blue jam 80.
if your useing on board junky pc midi sound prolly they sound bad.
this isnt the fault of biab.
go invest in a nice sound module n youll hear a diff.
for example..i got the country even 8 RD loaded.
starts to sound better.
now change the piano to mebe a draw bar gm2 organ patch.
or say voice ooohs patch.
ooh i just found a nice patch echo sweep.
now that clean elec geetar patch is a tad cheesy ??
so lets sub in say a dreamy or rocky real geetar.
see how it changes ??
notice how now we have the beginning of something ??
bass n piano midi, drums n geetar real instruments.
just a crude example suggesting experimentation.
hope you get the same..here i got a nice laid back feel
with a downward chord progression etc etc.
the BIGGEST REALISATION IVE COME TO IS...MAKEING THE CORRECT CHOICES.
n melding everything together nicely like a cloth "weaver"
to create a nice sound tapestry.
to summarise..dont just say "oh man ..hate that riff or sound".
CHANGE IT TO SOMETHING THAT FLOATS YOUR BOAT.
this is easily done.
this involves heavy experimentation.
next tip will cover the drums demos folder...
gonna explore that next.