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Hi Carlos,
That is a great track. Who would have thought that a mixture of so many different musical styles (Latin, Bluegrass, Roadhouse Blues, Motown) would work so brilliantly together. I am particular impressed by the speed at which you put the finished track together - seems like only a few days since you mentioned you might have a crack at something in this style!

Can you tell me what VSTI's you used for the Midi parts within Cubase? The Midi drums in particular sounded really good.

Best regards, Aubrey



Thanks Aubrey, I think of the inmense world of styles present in BIAB from RealTracks and even MIDI ones as an fertile ground for researching and experimentation. Of course a minimal of musical common sense will help. About the fast I go done with this song, I devoted two sessions, first night I worked in BIAB style customization, finished it I put the style to play in BIAB, grabbed my guitar and play some latin rock typical progressions and finally transcribe one I like. At start of song the melody bring up as courtesy of courtesy of SaxTenor, Motown Rock RT, after some tries I got the more melodical solo phrases and use it in a answer/response play between guitar and sax, not exactly a melody in the word full sense, as you can see the track have a strong trend to improvisation. After done it I import the BIAB song in RealBand in order to add and test some RD drum part that play well with the ChachaJazz Latin percusion RD, think of it as José Chepito Areas and Michael Shrieve Santana Abraxas drum/percussion team. Also I work in the fiddle soloing and guitar part in RealBand, finally I DROP tracks from BIAB and RB to Cubase. Second session was next night (yesterday), putting all together and working in the rest: guitar recording, some violin with MIDI guitar parts added, MIDI brass VSTi choice, editions of RealTracks like some little reorder of original BIAB song structure, breaks, then EQ, efx, mixing etc. Total hours: 8, aprox. 4 hours by session.

There are not MIDI drums in this tracks, they are RTs both asI mention before. The only MIDI part from BIAB is brass, I use First Call Horns (trumpet section) and Hypersonic 2 trumpet VSTi's. Additional fiddle is from Hypersonic 2. Thanks again.

Carlos

Gabriel Arellano,
Nucleox Music