Originally Posted By: mbsmike
Great job Charlie. What exactly is the key to "setting up" BIAB?

Is it picking a style? Setting key? Setting tempo? Unfolding the chord sheet? Or other things? Or all of the above?

I have had little success with ACW, but certainly would like to improve.

Thanks Mike


In my opinion, the key is two fold. Practice and giving yourself and the ACW as much information before applying the ACW as possible. For me, setting up BIAB to be as close to the tempo, hearing a style at least similar sounding to the song being analyzed and seeing the audio WAV file close to being in sync with the bars was very helpful to getting successful ACW results.

A practice routine that works for me is to select songs from the Users Showcase made by forum users. The ACW can usually read these songs accurately and artist most times gives the necessary information such as the Style used, BPM, time signature and the songs aren't burdened with confusing arrangements and over-produced.

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