Definitely an issue. I often find a basic song that I'd like to do a vocal to, but even when I have a nice MIDI arrangement of that song with well-done band/drum parts, I don't want the end result to simply sound like a karaoke song.

So I prety much randomly start going down a list of styles of a particular genre or substyle. For example, I took the song Stand By Me and filtered the styles using "Funk". Then I selectively go down the list, pick a style and audition it on the song track, mostly using the 4-bar snapshot.

I then navigate back to the styles list and find the next style on the list that looks like it might work based on the description, and try that. Basically a Shampoo-Rinse-Repeat process. It can literally take hours to find a style that "works" for me. I have had several successes, however, in finding very different sounding styles from the original performance, e.g. Light My Fire, done with one of the singer/songwriter styles.

I have not figured out a better way to accomplish this task. Requesting BIAB staff to add more selection options relies on the way they see a style, not necessarily the way I see the style. On YouTube, I watched several Henry Clarke videos using BIAB to "cover" a song with a different feel. He has a talent for messing around with styles and creating a cool sounding end-result [Take a listen to his version of "Walk On By" done with a disco flavor (on YouTube, search his name)], BUT he offers no answer to the hit-n-miss approach to selecting a style.

Maybe an approach for BIAB folks to consider is to provide an "automated" approach to reviewing a list of selected styles against the loaded song/chords. Give the option to select 8, 12, 16... bars to limit the generation time. Select the styles you want to audition, perhaps copy them into a MyStyles file, and start the automated audition process. Might drive us to drink after listening to 10+ sytles, but would definitiely save total time to stage up each style individually, then audition.

That's my (very long) $.02 cents.

Cz...
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