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Pressing play IMHO does not enhance what I PLAY ,it enhances my original song idea by providing me with the instrumentation I CANNOT play or afford to have hanging around in my house, in case I need that specific instrument. So BIAB, to me, is a "band of musicians" that provide me with the instrumentation that I feel the song requires



I'm with Bob regarding the fact that BIAB and RB are great tools to enhance the live performance or practicing of the user... but I'm in total agreement on the point about adding instruments you could never add by yourself.

One of my pet peeves about live music played by real people is that after about 3 songs it all starts to sound the same. Why is that?

1) the band is limited by the instruments they know how to play
2) except for the really talented bands, most are staffed by musicians who have their stock riffs that they use over and over in all their songs.

One reason why I like the idea of backing track accompaniment is that it opens EVERY MUSICAL DOOR to me! I'm no longer limited by the instruments 5 guys can play, or by their skill level or lack of discipline or inability to sing.

To me, this is a prime value adding reason for using music software as a performing musician... it adds possibilities.

I really doubt that very many people (if any) use BIAB or other software as a one button solution. It wouldn't cut it. That's why we tweak the output a thousand ways after the button is pushed. People's ears are spoiled by highly processed and perfect music. Its what they hear on the radio every day. A performer can't afford to take generic music to a gig... if they do it once, they won't do it for long.

I don't doubt that the PERCEPTION of one button music is off-putting to some who don't really understand the whole process of building a song you'd actually want to put before an audience. But that speaks more about their understanding than it does about the software.



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