Oren,

I'll be interested to hear it.

Even though I have newer much more powerful software synths, I still have the VSC in there on tunes.

And it's the workhorse when I am writing tunes in Band in a Box. I LIKE the sounds, even though they are lower fidelity. Add a little reverb or chorus as necessary and they can sound pretty nice.

It may be hard to find all the "stuff" in BIAB what with a million layers of menu options, etc. But I find that if you really learn how to use it, and how to use it creatively, use inversion chords, shape the bass with slash chords, taking time with it to use it's features to humanize the tracks it generates (pushes, chord stops and holds, etc.) then it can do some really nice stuff.

And it gets me styles that I sure don't know how to play properly. It's my little "studio band". Very versatile, even if not so creative on it's own.

Yes, there's only so much musicality you can create from random patterns. But sometimes you do get pretty lucky with it. Nice to have a few takes and cut and paste the best parts that 'work".

It's an amazing program.


Glenn

Last edited by Glenn in Minneapolis; 11/19/09 11:38 PM.