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2 [Question for Mac/others who've used something like the SD2] I'd rather be playing the guitar than messing for hours with tweaking sounds and automation - I wouldn't mind spending fifteen, or so, minutes making midi sounds sound real so, my questions are:
A. What is the approach for doing this, let's say with a horn sound (seems to me a guy's got to look at nearly every phrase or long note ending and ramp down the volume or other) - is that what's done or, do the good sounds in the SD2 naturally sound like someone playing?

B. About how long/how much time do you spend on massaging a tune's midi stuff ?

Thanks again




In a lot of cases, all you need do is hook up the SD2 correctly and play back the file. It will automatically address the GM bank.

Dropping the Patch Map (found on the PGMusic Support pages) for the SD2 into your BIAB folder and properly selecting it from inside BIAB enables you to access the Upper Banks of the synth by Patch Names -- and grouped by instruments. This makes rather quick work of auditioning other sounds for each instrument track. For example, you can look at all available Electric Pianos in one group, select another and hear what it sounds like as the file is playing. Find a better sounding one than the original GM bank sound, a simple matter to invoke that one instead, then use the Save with Patches and Harmony window in BIAB to change the file to reflect your choices.

Usually is the case that it is all you need do, no complicated volume changes manually or anything like that needed, for the most part. Besides that, if you are after that kind of detailed editing, BIAB is not the software I'd choose first, I'd export as MIDI file to a multitrack static sequencing software instead of trying to do all that in an autoaccompaniment generator such as BIAB anyway. Again, I don't find the need to do that with BIAB generated songs at all.

Here are some hotlinks to actual BIAB PGMusic Demo Songs that you can find in your BB folder.

Note that I did absolutely no "tweaking" of any kind, neither in the MIDI nor in the Audio domain. What you hear is what you get.

All I did was hook up the Ketron SD2 properly, with its Audio L and R outputs connected to the Audio L and R inputs of my soundcard and recorded what BIAB played back. What you hear is what you get.

You can load the same songs from your BIAB Demo Songs folders and "Dare to Compare" with whatever MIDI solution you are currently using.

HipHopRockSwDemo_REALDRUMS.WMA

HipHopRockSwDemo_MIDIDRUMS.WMA

TruckinDemoRealDrumsSD2.mp3

TruckinDemoMIDIDrumsSD2.mp3

BigSurDemoRealDrumsSD2.mp3

BigSurDemoMIDIDrumsSD2.mp3

Straightahead_SD2_upperbanks_136BPM.mp3 ( I changed the Tempo of this last one, simply because I like it better at that speed. Also switched a couple of the accompaniment instruments to those Upper Bank patches, as an example. If you want to Dare to Compare at your end, simply change the BPM in the loaded songfile's Tempo block to the indicated 136. )

Have Fun,


--Mac

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