Originally Posted By: lambada
Yes, thank you. Fascinating and clever. I take it you also decide when you've finished with BIAB and then remain in Reaper?


That's mostly true. Depending on the song, though, I sometimes revisit BIAB and generate more material. This is especially true of solos and endings.

An approach that I always use is that when I'm creating my song in BIAB, I always regenerate the song each time I play it. Then if any riff, fill-in or ending happens that I particularly like, I always save the WAV with the bar reference in the name.

Because I generate my song every time I play it, I end up generating at least a couple of hundred times and this exposes me to a huge number of audio possibilities. I like to take advantage of that.

For example, I might have a turn-around over bars 33-36 and in a particular generation I get an excellent guitar riff happening. In this instance, I'd temporarily set the tone, reverb and panning to zero and then save the file with a name something like: Guitar (insert RT number) turnaround bars 33-36_excellent.wav (such naming helps me identify it when I load it into Reaper).

Once I've save the audio file, I then reload the BIAB file (without saving the current file) so that all settings are returned to what they were.

Originally Posted By: lambada
I was hoping we would be moving to something a little more interactive by now, but perhaps with BIAB 2020? Do you use the multiriff feature?

Yes, I'm a big fan of multiriff and that's one of the reasons I use Realband. I also like Realband for using TC Helicon on vocals.

The reason I didn't mention multiriff before is because, as already mentioned, I'm trying to develop an approach that only BIAB + DAW.

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