Dear Professor Noel,

Thanks for the elaboration and I apologize for using sloppy shorthand.

When I say "Band-in-a-Box" that is shorthand to me for ALL the stuff you can do using PG Music software whether that is a.) finding a style b.) generating .wav audio tracks from BIAB per se c.) opening a BIAB file in Real Band and generating 100 more .wav tracks d.) rolling your own as Josie would say and using those tracks as part of a project IN ADDITION TO other tools such as orchestra samples or live recorded tracks inside a DAW.

I think the beginner's forum does a great job of covering the basics, and you can see it is already hundred of pages and posts long with questions about the basics.

What I thought this thread would be good for was for people to post some examples of accomplishments where they felt they were able to achieve "amazing things" using PG Music products (midi, BIAB styles, track generation whatever) as part of a PRODUCTION where other elements were used as well.

Also, I see this as a non-critiquing thread: i.e.. not "It would have been a whole lot better if you had..." but just a place to share some sound design achievements as education so we can all learn.

Once you start down the road of "it would have been a lot better if...." people tend to lose their joy and the posts stop coming.

We have enough places on the forum for that already.

As an example, there is another forum on the web I never visit anymore. A guy from Sweden posted a song his son had written and they had used a lot of the family savings to hire an orchestra to record it. Someone posted "aside from having no melody and being boring even for pop I suppose it was passable." I am trying to avoid that like the plague. If people are going to be vulnerable enough to post productions that are dear to them, I would like this to be a place for sharing accomplishments in an environment that is safe from the kind of remarks I just mentioned or the posts will stop and there will be no more education.

Allow people to revel a little bit and pick up some tips and leave it at at that.

So, fellow composers, I love to hear some of your great accomplishments! I am trying to learn!!

smile


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