This is the classic point we try to make about Biab. It comes up continually. Biab is not for creating covers, it's for creating backing tracks, not the lead tracks. It's for you the player to jam with and it's up to the player to play those specific licks. The people who keep referring to classic rock songs are either not good enough players to do that or play the wrong instruments like me on keyboards. I can't play those great guitar licks but they're readily available if I want them badly enough.

Cover song backing tracks are available all over the internet as midi files or karaoke live instrument audio tracks. My sister does a lot of karaoke contests and I've heard some of those tracks. They sound exactly like the record, extremely well produced. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if some of those karaoke parts were done by the same people who recorded them on those hit records in the first place, they just don't want us to know about it. For the cost of the Ultrapac you can buy a hundred of them and jam to your hearts content or do a cover band bar gig by yourself if that's what you want.

If you really want Biab to do this then all you need to do is spend the 5-7 bucks each or less in quantity, and buy the song you want either audio or midi and insert those parts onto either a Biab instrument track or the solo or melody track. What some of us did a couple years ago in Real Band was to insert the live recorded funky parts to a Christmas song by Spyro Gyra, can't remember the name now, into a RB generated version of the same song. It was all audio and using the pitch shifting and tempo matching abilities inside RB and some crossfading I was able to insert a great solo from the original recording right in the middle of the Biab tracks inside RB plus a really hot intro they did. This can all be done and it's not that hard.

Hip hop remixers have been doing this for years now and they've been doing it live. I did it as a studio recording but with a live DJ setup you can crossfade using your mixer and have both versions playing at the same time. Actually using live DJ software you can have many different versions of the same song playing at the same time but you're only hearing one at any one time by using either your on screen controls or a midi control surface. You can completely rearrange that song any way you want by creating loops of those parts ahead of time and punching them up at your discretion at the gig. Biab can easily be a part of that by creating some of those parts.

We already have the tools to do pretty much anything we just have to expand our thinking a little.

Bob

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