Originally Posted By: cfcboc
Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker


The sax was a Real Band track. I compose the music in BB and then render ALL my tracks in Real Band. In this case the style I used did not have a sax but in RB you are free to add whatever instrument tracks you desire into your project. I selected a Sax.

I export the tracks out of RB and into Sonar where I do my mixing and polishing. I use envelopes in Sonar to bring the instruments in and out for their fills and parts so they don't play constantly in the song.

Hope that helps. If you have any other specific questions, let me know.


When you say you selected a sax in Real Band, did you use a VST sample for the sax? or did you select a sax sound on a sound module? I was interested to find out what was used to create the sax sound you used. Also I'm confused as to whether you played the sax part on a keyboard, typed in the notes, or used the notes that were originally assigned to a different instument, e.g. a trumpet?

Again, I thought the song and especially that sax fill-in part were very well done, and wanted to duplicate what you did for that sax part. [/quote]







You should understand what Real Band is. That may help you to understand it better.

Real Band and the real tracks are not midi, or synths. They are samples from a real sax that was recorded in a studio..... note by note, articulation by articulation. Through the process that PG music knows better than I, Real Band creates that track by itself using an algorithm based on the style, the tempo, the player in that style, and creates the music. Its a real sax played by real band in the style of a certain sax player.

So I didn't tell it what to play nor did I play the part. As a matter of fact, if I was to open that file again in Real Band, and delete that sax part and then tell it to recreate that part.... the next render would be different than the one I deleted. It would be similar, but would have different notes.

I have used that ability.... that each render IS unique, to my advantage. Listen to the song on my music site called "The Best Christmas"..... now some back ground. I played NOTHING on that song. However, for the sake of this post, the piano fills are taken from 3 different piano tracks. All rendered from the same real track... 3 different times. the guitar solo is from the same guitar solo real track rendered 5 unique times and the resultant solos and fills are the result of creative editing between those tracks.

Below is a screen shot of the piano fills in the beginning of the song. You can see that one fill can be two different tracks.



I hope that explains it. So, you could do something similar with BB/RB but the chance of getting an exact reproduction of that sax line is slim at best.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 09/11/13 06:06 AM.
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