Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
HearToLearn, you make some really great points. I agree with 90% of what you said! The part I disagree on is whether or not BIAB is capable of producing modern music. As you have correctly noted, there is none in the showcase. And, perhaps even more telling, the programmers and musicians at PG have also not produced any modern chart-worthy examples.

I've had this conversation and even had folks here try to convince me with examples of modern sounding music they could quickly produce with BIAB but honestly nothing that sounded chart-worthy to me.

So yes, the vast majority of BIAB users producing music and sharing it here are using BIAB exactly how it was designed...to produce awesome sounding classic rock, classic jazz and classic country. Maybe there are some BIAB users who have mastered BIAB to the point that they are able to get modern sounding songs or as Bob suggested, maybe they are using DAWs to produce their modern music.

Personally, I am trying to produce a more modern set of songs and I am using loops, MIDI tools and, I hope, BIAB for some tracks and bits. But I think the magic, should any occur, will be in my DAW.

And I will go ahead and say, as you do, NO OFFENSE INTENDED to BIAB users or to PG! None at all! Just speaking frankly!

One parting thought...if someone did manage to produce something modern and chart-worthy, maybe they would not be inclined to pop into the forums and say "Here is how I did it!"


I was going to reply to this yesterday and may day took a different direction. Life! lol.

Anyway, I'm not sure...are you saying you don't feel a modern/chart sounding (I think that may be how I wanted to phrase it) song couldn't be done with BIAB and/or Realtracks?

I think it does take some additional instrumentation and outside daw use to do it...just like mostly every song in the showcase though. It's definitively not the "set and forget" mentality for something like this.

I totally KNOW it's possible. Someone will do it.

The short version : To me it's like saying, "my guitar doesn't play jazz."

Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

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