Hello to all of you - I'm overwhelmed from reading your responses, thank you so much. blush

Allow me to give you a little more insight.

BIAB is where I do the creative song writing, and where it is really a killer application in the work flow is to find the right key to sing the actual song. (I think it's a classic mistake to set the key low in order for the vocal to stay well within the comfort zone).

I tend to mix and match MIDI and Real Tracks from different styles to break out of "ready to go" feel, that PG Music has made available. Usually I prefer to force the tracks to playing more simple - to my taste especially Real Tracks are almost too rich.

When off loading to my DAW Logic Pro X with the BIAB reverb set to zero, the first thing I mostly do is to change the drums, where I combine the BIAB drum MIDI track with a MIDI version of the Auto Drummer in Logic. For this record I preferred my drums simple and minimalistic.

Once that is done - I start to research if any of the Real Tracks should be replaced by my own playing, though I never erase the BIAB tracks, because they will stay in the song if I can't make it far better or more accurate myself. For me the important thing is to get an authentic feeling of unity in the instrument tracks, and for me BIAB is like having top notch Pro musicians in the sessions.

During this very educating album project I realized that sometimes I need the same BIAB song in different versions using different styles, and by doing this I ran into the "go-and-make-yourself-a-cup-of-coffe-feature" when exporting from BIAB to DAW in AIFF or WAV - my Quad Core Mac is running on overload. I don't know if PG Music are trying to improve the time it takes to render each track, but that would be a vast improvement for my workload.

Another issue I ran into were timing problems and twice I stumbled into issues with strange artifacts in the audio track - caused when the chord progression was slightly challenging.

In track nbr 10 - the solo played in the prog rock part - is actually a render of RT1167 played by Brent Mason. I added a Flanger & a bit of Tape Delay and the sound was smashing. I actually consider to give credits Brent, but I'm not sure I'm allowed to do so.

Overall I couldn't have completed my album without having BIAB 2017 Mac (I'll upgrade next year - I had to spend the budget of this year with Izotope for Nuetron 2 and Ozone 8). As I'm sometimes quite critical to PG - I will end up raising my thumb sky high in appreciation of the work you have done with BIAB.

MacMini M1 - BIAB2021 - Logic Pro X - iZotope Music Production Suite - Scaler 2 - far too many Waves plugins and Line 6 Guitars and boards + a fantastic Yamaha THR10ll mini Amp - Avid MBOX Studio

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