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In a live situation which would be better to use, BIAB or Real Band?

I want to use it for "pseudo" style play using the Conductor function. Playing a few Jazz funk tunes mostly. And only probably using the drums and bass parts - the rest will be muted out..

Maybe add some midi backing parts, but again only bass drums and maybe one gtr...

Thanks

Dennis



I personally much prefer using Band in a Box in live performance of Jazz.

This is because, if not frozen, the Style file will generate a slightly different performance of the tune with each loading or each time the PLAY button is pushed.

I find that to be a bit more fun and also to be more jazz oriented, as opposed to having to play and improvise to a static backing track every time the song is played.

On top of that, The Conductor feature is always there and handy in BiaB as well. Can repeat choruses if desired, or even end a song early if it doesn't seem to be what my audience is digging at the time. Also, The Conductor has proven to be very handy when someone wants to sit in and perhaps play a few choruses more than what I've initiallh laid out in the songfile, or maybe we'll trade fours towards the last chorus, etc.

I've learned to go ahead and load the next song to be played in a set as soon as the last song finishes, in order to reduce the amount of apparent time it takes for a Realtracks song to load. If done right, this is invisible to my audience.


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