I am a veteran BIAB user and have upgraded many times over the years. I really appreciate the program and the work that has gone into developing and improving it (especially appreciated the recent GUI upgrade).

I am becoming increasingly frustrated, however. Although the program is improving in many areas and the REAL instruments are truly excellent, I still can't get it to do exactly what I need.

As a singer-songwriter, I find that BIAB arrangements are not good enough for a full broadcast-quality production, as they're just not flexible enough to provide song development and interest from intro to end of song (unless you put a lot of extra effort into it, outside of BIAB). But I am OK with that and have come to understand that BIAB and REAL BAND cannot be substitutes for true musicians and a recording studio.

But I would like to be able to put out a decent, simple demo with just vocal and minimal instrumentation. However, I have 2 main difficulties with this:

(1) The arrangements are mostly way too busy and overworked for a simple song demo.

(2) The existing tracks generally sound far too genre-specific for my needs: the country is VERY country, the blues "screams" blues, etc. Whereas, I am looking for arrangements that are a more SUBTLE blend of rock/jazz/blues/country ("Americana", for want of a better label), and less likely to be immediately identified and labelled as distinctly one or the other.

So, what I am wishing for is:

(1) A selection of very spare/simple/minimal accompaniment tracks and/or band arrangements (e.g., bass + drums or percussion + piano or guitar), mostly down- to mid-tempo, that *leave a lot of room for the vocal*. A lot less flash, a lot less NOTES played, but with several levels of dynamics and intensity, that can carry a song through from beginning to end (intro, verses, choruses, bridge, outro).

(2) Tracks that are less genre-specific and provide a more subtle and sophisticated blend of current American musical styles.

Many thanks for considering this!
Mark