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Just Foolin' Around with BIAB style BluesStr.Sty I made some minor tweaks to the midi in Logic and added my own instruments. The BIAB backing is midi bass, piano (left hand), and acoustic guitar with the BIAB real drums that come with the style. Over that I played organ, electric guitar and the right hand piano in the piano solo. Incidentally, the organ part is played with guitar midi... an experiment. https://soundcloud.com/user-663569023/just-foolin-around
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Incidentally, the organ part is played with guitar midi... an experiment. Certainly this has worked out well. It would be difficult to pick that without knowing. Smooth 12-bar blues. Good feel.
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Hi Chris,
Excellent - My kinda music - loved the whole lot.
Well done with Organ, guitar and piano solos - spot on.
Look forward to hearing more from you.
Best Regards
Nigel
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I have edited the organ part to make it sound more 'authentic'. Sliding down the fretboard put every note in but a glissando on the keyboard only puts in all the white notes. I took the black notes out of the glissandos and I think it sounds more real.
(The guitar midi I used for this is Jam Origin's MidiGuitar 2 which is a fraction of the cost of the hardware options and works ten times better. I would recommend looking into it for any guitar players who want to get into midi without having to learn a keyboard... and no, I have no affiliation with JamOrigin. I am just impressed with how well it works.)
Last edited by Chris Dent; 05/24/21 07:20 PM.
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Hi Chris,
Organ sounds great.
Bass - just about blew my speakers out of their cabinets. Maybe ease back on the bass especially at some very troublesome frequencies.
You will have a killer track.
Best Regards
Nigel
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Chris,
This is an awesome track. It sounds like a late night smokey jazz club...
Excellent!
Bob
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Hi Chris,
Yeah, I love this, great feel!
Very impressed with that organ track, guitar midi is something I know nothing about. What VSTi did you use if you don't mind my asking?
Love the jazzy guitar work too, very well done.
Great listen!
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Hi Chris,
Very beautiful composition rich in variations. The mix is great. There is a perfect intricacy of the instruments in your melodic phrases. I appreciated.
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Derochette
amias JaniJackFlash
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Chris,
Nice. Impressive organ. Cool guitar. A good listen.
fj
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Very cool piece of music. Excellent playing. Cool phrasing. Well done.
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What VSTi did you use if you don't mind my asking?
The organ is IK Multimedia's Hammond B-3X. They had it on sale recently and I couldn't resist... Previously I have been using the Vintage B3 that comes with Logic, which is also pretty good, but I think the IKM model is a bit better...
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Hi Chris,
Bass - just about blew my speakers out of their cabinets. Maybe ease back on the bass especially at some very troublesome frequencies
Best Regards
Nigel Thanks Nigel I have cleaned up the bass sound and reduced the volume a little (although I do want the bass to definitely be present in the mix...). Maybe this will prevent blowing up your speakers! ha ha. You must have more bass presence than I have in my monitors... https://soundcloud.com/user-663569023/just-foolin-around
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Hi Chris,
That's great - I have listened on my monitors (FOCAL Alpha 65's) and my AKG K240 studio headphones (very flat) and - bass is perfect!
I must have missed the reverb on the Guitar solo first time round - superb!
Thanks & Best Regards
Nigel
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Chris
Nicely played and arranged. I've used Midi Guitar with mixed results. What audio interface are you using?
Excellent guitar work both as a guitar and organ.
Peter
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Oh, so good and so much fun to listen to, Chris. Thanks for the explanation. That guitar/organ is outstanding. Taking our the black keys for the gliss was brilliant, and sounds time-consuming. (on my 2nd listen now) haha. I started typing "Great taste of your right hand", but thought I should rephrase that. Seriously though, great chops!
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Mr. Dent...
What a warm, soulful, slow-swinging track this is! Your conversational, expressive keyboard performance(s) made it even more pleasurable to sit back and listen to. The guitar-MIDI-to-organ track brimmed over with the quietly bluesy mellowness of a kind of midnight jazz that was very nostalgic and relaxing to me.
"Music is what feelings sound like."-- borrowed from a Cakewalk Music Creator forum member, "Mamabear".
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I've used Midi Guitar with mixed results. What audio interface are you using?
Peter
Hi Peter, Jam Origin Midi Guitar 2 is a software plugin that converts any guitar input into midi. No hardware required. I previously tried using Fishman Tripleplay pickup and it was a complete waste of money as far as I am concerned. The fishman is OK if you are the kind of player who picks every note but MG2 picks up all the hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, glissandos etc. Much more suited to my style of playing. It takes a bit of fiddling to get the setup right and if you try it I would advise using a string mute to avoid incidentals appearing... Chris
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Taking our the black keys for the gliss was brilliant, and sounds time-consuming. Surprisingly quick actually. In the Logic piano roll I just scrolled to where the glissandos were and clicked on the black notes and hit delete. All over in a couple of minutes. A quick easy fix to get a 'natural' gliss...
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Good playing - I enjoyed this a lot! 
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Don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
Brilliant performances by you and a great display of the power of BiaB in talented hands.
That midi bass sounds excellent as do all the tracks.
Nice and slinky smooooooth....
Love it,
J&B
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