While 90db and I often disagree on many topics, he's preaching to the choir on this one.

I too bought BB/RB to save on demo session costs. Specifically, the steel guitar player. The cost of the everything pack is less than a decent session will cost using some of the hottest pickers in music city. Of course, I haven't checked on Nashville studio rates recently, but I think you'd still be hard pressed to get a good quality demo done with all the instruments available in BB and have it done to your satisfaction at that cost or below. And that would be for one or two songs at most.

Melodyne/autotune (pitch correction) same deal.... yeah, everyone that's recording music now days uses pitch correction because even the best of the best flub notes in a soulful performance. The Beatles didn't have ME or AT so they often spent several days just working on the vocal tracks to a 2 minute 30 second song.

OK... now, to the topic.... lyric generation software. I've not seen nor heard of this but it's a matter of time before it's on the market.

As I see it, it would not be the golden ticket to writing hit songs because the lyrics that tend to touch the human heart, come from the human heart to start with.

It may however be a useful tool to get the ideas flowing, much in the same way I use a software package called MasterWriter2. MW2 has a rhyming dictionary that is nothing short of amazing.

Ask the average person or songwriter to name as many rhymes as they can for a given word and the result will be perhaps a dozen or so words....With MW2, type in a word and it will give you anywhere from one to 40 or more PAGES of words that rhyme in one of multiple ways. If that doesn't help, after reviewing all the different words on the 40 or so pages of rhymes, you can switch to the PHRASES mode and now, it's giving you page after page of one line phrases designed to help kick start your creative process. Some work, most don't but, the way I use this process is to come up with something else that more closely fits my song.

I run into a number of folks in other forums who are down on folks like me (and you) who use BB/RB because they deem us to be "cheating" since there are not real people playing the parts. But that's not my problem. I have a well recorded and well played song that suits my purposes nicely and to me, that's what matters the most. If I had to rely on other musicians to lay down tracks for me, or attempt to learn to play the other instruments I want in my music, and play them at the professional level I seek, I'd be doing nothing all day but practicing one instrument after another after another.....

To those "purists", I like to ask them if they use softsynths and drum programs.....

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 10/20/14 04:52 AM.
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