BiaB can make some great (and not so great) accompaniments for your cover tunes, but when it comes to things like melodic "hooks" and riffs that are commonly identified with a particular song, it cannot do that automatically, although there are certain few MIDI styles that do indeed tend to target a certain riff, even these won't "nail" the cover tune as the algorithm is not likely to place those things in exactly the same places as the original.

That said, it is indeed possible to get results that nail the original by use of imported MIDI files that have been made to do so. Typically you wouldn't use one of the BiaB internal Styles to do this, at that point it is like using BB to play back the MIDI file as a sequencing program would.

And there are various degrees of possibilities to be had with the Style files as well, such as recording your own MIDI tracks of the hooks and placing them on the Melody and Soloist tracks, perhaps even adding a real acoustic track to the sole Audio track in BB of your guitar or whatever as well. This latter method is not automatic and generally takes some time on the part of the user to implement, though.

You might find a good sounding MIDI file of your target song by searching the web and downloading same, then open it in BiaB onto the SEQ feature, which places all MIDi tracks onto the Melody track.


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