Originally Posted By: DeaconBlues09
As I've mentioned on a few previous occasions here in the forums, I don't personally use BiaB to make music, but for practicing and learning bass and guitar styles and genres.

DO you write, and if so, do you have players come in and play parts for you?

When I first got this software, I thought it was "cute" and I would use it as a composing tool, to then have live players come in and play over the generated tracks. That idea last exactly one song. After weeks of

My car broke down.
My kid is sick.
I have a gig.
I have a rehearsal.
I had to work late.
I am too tired.
My wife is mad at me and I have to stay home tonight.

I decided that people suck and now I just use the generated tracks. I had ONE guy come and do some piano work for me, and one guitar player came in to do a solo. When I reviewed that guitar player's work, the Brent Mason solo I generated after was WAY better.

So for me, again, ME, not everybody, the stuff I can do with this software is far better than what I can play, and Real Band is far more reliable than people. (See that list of excuses above.) If I have a thought at 3am, I can walk 12 steps from the bedroom to this computer and flesh the rough sketch out. And when I want a guitar solo, Brent is always available. And he does my session free. And the quality of his work is far superior to what I can get out of a local guitar player.

So the point of that missive was to say that the value of this software varies, relative to how the owner uses it. My one and only CD was 85% Real Band, and nobody knows it wasn't live players if I don't tell them.

Floyd once had a gag web page with pictures and bios of his "band". It was really funny, but through the humor it illustrated just how real the music created by this software is. Not knowing the joke, seeing the web page and hearing the music, it looked 100% legitimate.

Back to your topic, what exactly are you going to do? Replace generated tracks with live players? Change the Real Drums to other Real Drums? That kind of thing?

PS. Floyd, I miss Pickles.....

Last edited by eddie1261; 04/26/18 06:22 AM.