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The new RealTracks of Chinese Erhu introduced in BiaB 2023, was a huge success. It opens a whole new world of creating oriental and ethnic soundtracks in BiaB.

By adding just one China instrument, your music will instantly sound like a Hans Zimmer scoring. Mysterious, emotional, intense, and venomous at the same time.

Of course, if you want to go further, you are able to create pop music in the styles of China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and many other east Asian countries.

So, without an intention of inciting people to talk about sensitive politics, I would like to request the considerations of enriching the China contents in BiaB 2024.

● Erhu
● Guzheng
● Pipa
● Liuqin
● Dizi
● Xiao
● Suona

In the current 2023 version, all China RealTracks were recorded in the pentatonic scale, which includes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 only. It doesn't have to be that way. It can be recorded in the regular chromatic scale, and will still sound good.

Playable RealTracks for these new instruments would also be desired.

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These are all worthwhile requests, however, they might get the attention of the right PG Music people by posting in the RealTracks Wishlist section.

Regardless, +1


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Hi MusicVillan,

Those are excellent suggestions, thanks! A lot of that kind of stuff has already been on our radar. Certainly pipa is one that we've been looking into. Also, though not Chinese, we added sitar last year, and another Indian instrument we'll likely be adding is bansuri, which is a bamboo flute. But yes, all the other suggestions you made will also be looked at as well!


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Tobin: Frankenstein of Sound Recording.

When I see your face, I can hear your voice. I have been binge watching your bootcamp and new feature videos for weeks.

I know you are the PG RT boss, and busy with RT recording. But as a fan of yours, I urge you to consider making more in-depth case study tutorial videos, in your spare time.

And I promise you, I will watch every single one of them.


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