I too wanted... hoped that BB/RB would be able to do this.....I wanted it to be able to play a melody of my choosing.... but it doesn't exactly do that so I work within it's limitations and my imagination and efforts to get better than the average result from it.

The fact of the matter is that if you render the same real track several different times, lets say 5 times.... you WILL have 5 completely different tracks with many variations between them but also with great similarity between them. Some parts will tend to be nearly identical between the tracks and other areas will be totally different.

Case in point: The Best Christmas http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11971116

It's a song I wrote some time back now.... but in it, I have 3 piano tracks and if I'm not mistaken there are 5 guitar tracks.... both piano and guitar were rendered multiple times from the same real track..... and looking at the screen shot you can see the differences. The piano fills and the guitar fills and solo are constructed with creative editing to achieve the desired result.



hope this helps.... it takes some work but you can get some interesting stuff with some effort.

If you absolutely have to have something that follows your notes.... such as a sax or piano, or anything else.... midi is the way to go, short of getting a live player to play the part for you. There are some really nice (but costly) sampled synths out there which are specific to certain instruments.... simply do a Bing search and you'll find them.
Asking on various recording forum sites can often turn up player with the specialty instrument you seek and who have a decent home studio and most importantly are willing to help for free. Check on the forum sites for all the major DAW manufacturers.

Another song I did: Missing Person http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11962059 has 3 musicians from 3 different states.... fiddle from Vermont, vocals, guitars and mando (me) from NC, and vocals, bass, guitar, dobro from Georgia.... just ask and people will jump in on a project that interests them. We have never met nor talked on the phone....everything was through the forum and PM, and email.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 10/27/13 08:07 AM.
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