Hey there folks,

So last September I accepted a new position where I have much, much, less free time than I used to, so I've not been hanging out in the forums in ages (I barely had time to play around with BiaB 2021). Anyway, I've had a bit of time free this week because we got off for the week of Passover (I live in Israel), and chanced upon this when relaxing on my couch browsing through these posts.

For most the vast majority of years I owned BiaB, I used it as a jamalong/instructional/practice tool for playing guitar and bass, and would have agreed with Lazarus's take on this.

However, at some point a couple years back (when I still had a lot more free time) I started getting more interested in music production techniques, VSTs, MIDI etc, and have since realized that it is the way BiaB is used that determines what you get out of it.

For instance, in this snippet, I had a single instance of a Rompler VST that is often on sale for $5 on plugin boutique, and figured out certain settings whereby I got all the sounds you hear on this EDM snippet from loading it onto a single held chord MIDI track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSJTQSI12gw

As for RTs, you can also get amazing modern sounding results with a bit of DAW, VST, and production know how.

I recorded this track for one of PG's contests. I'm not saying it's great, I can't rap for [*****], and I unfortunately rendered this with a tiny playback speed drift on one of the tracks I could not figure out at the time how to fix, but you have to admit that this sounds as modern as you please and it contains nary a loop nor MIDI track.

Interested to hear your thoughts and whether you agree with me in that regard,

https://soundcloud.com/user-423212678/labor-day-pt-ii-1

P.S. Missed you guys!
P.P.S. Also wondering what awesome magical utilities, apps, extensions, Pipeline has been coming up with these days ;-)

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