Firstly, there might not be a single 'original recording', there may be many. Also its possible to do a lot of things in BIAB trhat you cant do with a recording - substitute chords for example, change styles etc.One thing I would like to do is take out the piano so I can play along to the vocal - comping.

I have been thinking about this more,... I once had a demo of melodyne, it was Frank Sinatra singing a solo. The demo showed the score, and then the notes were altered. I was very suprised to see Frank sing a new note. It actualy sounded very authentic. Obviously the technique could not stretch the pitch too far, but a perfect fifth seemed acheivable.

This tech is now licenced and Daw's likew Cubase sport it. I have seen harmony vocals created this way, and its effective. Basically as long as the file is monophonic, a lot is feasible.

Presently Real Tracks are Acid like loops, and very good they are too. But there seems room to me to have some sort of pitch shifting algorithm too. Even without the pitch shifting, we could still have some vocal loops for RT standards, using 'acid loop' type RT's.

So, again why not vocal RTS?

A human voice is the ultiate instrument and dramaticaly deepens the 'connection' of the music. I can even think of the last time a song without a vocal was in the charts here in the UK!

I think it will be a killer addition. It would take BIAB away from other 'accompaniment software by another coutry mile.

IMO

ZAerio

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