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I could use some help finding a most basic jazz style. smile
The band in this case would be vibes, acoustic bass and brush drums. Simple right?
Tempo around 85 bpm, 4/4.

Nothing is showing up on my computer at the moment.
If someone can find it and point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it.

Bass walks slowly, four notes per bar.
Vibes holds chords for as long as possible (ringing out only as vibes can do).

I would think I'd have a choice of at least 4-5 styles like this.


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Try:

_SENTIM (Xtra Pak 17)

_LANGUID (Xtra Pak 3)

_FOLIAGE (Xtra Pak 17)

_CORVUS (Xpro 4)

_JBALVBS (Misc 2014/07)


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Biabman,

There are some sweet jazz styles with vibes. The rhythm parts are as you suggest, namely vibes playing held chords. And the vibes player is the great Steve Nelson.

You can listen to them by playing the band demo of the ones with “rhythm” in the name,

https://www.pgmusic.com/realtracks.artists.php?a=43&os=win

you can find them in the style picker by filtering by Steve Nelson.

Steve is considered one of the best jazz vibes players, including playing with most of the jazz greats including being a member of the famous George Shearing Quintet, who had that famous sound with vibes, piano and guitar. Here’s’ Steve’s bio https://www.stevenelsonvibes.com/bio


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Originally Posted by PeterGannon
Biabman,

There are some sweet jazz styles with vibes. The rhythm parts are as you suggest, namely vibes playing held chords. And the vibes player is the great Steve Nelson.

You can listen to them by playing the band demo of the ones with “rhythm” in the name,

https://www.pgmusic.com/realtracks.artists.php?a=43&os=win

you can find them in the style picker by filtering by Steve Nelson.

Thanks AudioTrack and Peter for helping out so quickly!
It's funny what happened.

My BIAB was set up and working nicely a couple of months ago.
Then I needed to create some extra space on my SSD and I deleted a bunch of music stuff.

I just checked and ALL of my RealTracks have disappeared!
No wonder I couldn't find anything. smile

I'm going to have to go back to some of my backups and either restore the files, or re-install
them.
I'm sure that will solve the problem. smile

Thanks again!

BTW, I was able to listen to some really nice vibes stuff when I chose to replace the midi parts with RealTracks, so at least the demos were working. smile
But when I tried to select the parts to work in my song, up popped the message saying that the files were not available.


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OK for some further clarification and a few more questions.

I didn't get it quite right with my explanation above.
I did restore my BIAB files a few days ago, but for some reason I forgot to restore perhaps the most important folder with 30G + of files. My Real Tracks folder!

So that explains why I wasn't seeing hardly any Styles to choose from.
That and also because the location pointer to my custom Real Tracks folder had been wiped as well.

Now that all my Real Tracks have been restored and the pointer is correct again a lot of Styles are available to choose from.

However, I was able to pull up a few really cool Styles yesterday (without the Real Tracks restored):
Vibes, Rhythm Jazz Sw 110
Vibes, Rhythm JazzBallad Sw 060
Vibes, Rhythm Jazz Sw 140

For some reason I can't see them now after I restored my Real Tracks!
Suggestions on how to get them back?
I saw them yesterday by choosing an instrument and selecting 'substitute Real Track for midi' etc.

Another question.
In order to see my Styles quickly and easily I would like to sort them according to header, in the Style Picker window.
However it is not sorting properly. If I click on Name or Long Name, I don't get the Styles sorted alphabetically.


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Did you rebuild the style data bass after you added your RTs?

Yes I made sure I did that. After I re-built I saw tons of Real Tracks. But not the ones I want to see with Vibes!
Something fishy is still going on.


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Originally Posted by BIABman
Another question.
In order to see my Styles quickly and easily I would like to sort them according to header, in the Style Picker window.
However it is not sorting properly. If I click on Name or Long Name, I don't get the Styles sorted alphabetically.
Yes, it does that for some unknown reason.
On mine, it sorts by every name that begins with an underscore character, then all of the remainder are listed in a seemingly random order.


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Originally Posted by BIABman
Another question.
In order to see my Styles quickly and easily I would like to sort them according to header, in the Style Picker window.
However it is not sorting properly. If I click on Name or Long Name, I don't get the Styles sorted alphabetically.
Yes, it does that for some unknown reason.
On mine, it sorts by every name that begins with an underscore character, then all of the remainder are listed in a seemingly random order.

Interesting that I'm not the only one experiencing this.

It does make a feeble attempt at sorting. It will sort a bunch of styles using some criterion,
then go back to A, B, C etc. for a second criterion (whatever that is) and then when that is finished
it will go back to A, B, C etc. for another criterion...
And it will also throw in random styles not sorted. A whole mishmash.


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Originally Posted by PeterGannon
Biabman,

There are some sweet jazz styles with vibes. The rhythm parts are as you suggest, namely vibes playing held chords. And the vibes player is the great Steve Nelson.

You can listen to them by playing the band demo of the ones with “rhythm” in the name,

https://www.pgmusic.com/realtracks.artists.php?a=43&os=win

you can find them in the style picker by filtering by Steve Nelson.

OK I could really use your help now!
Either Peter or anyone else here who knows the solution.
I listened to the styles in the links that Peter gave above.

The ones I really like are:
Vibes, Rhythm Jazz Sw 110 (#1217)
Vibes, Rhythm Jazz Sw 140 (#1218)
Vibes, Rhythm JazzBallad Sw 060 (#1219)


These were shown as 'Band demos'.
And it said Real Tracks in this set.

So now I stuck in a mire.
There's:
1. Real Tracks
2. Band demos
3. Styles
and the list goes on and on and on.

All I want is to be able to get the sounds like I stated above (1217, 1218, and 1219)
in styles that I can use in my songs.

Can anyone guide me to doing this?
They aren't showing up in my Styles list.
Peter said to filter for 'Steve Nelson'.
None of the styles had the sound I referenced above.

The link above says they are found in the UltraPAK which I have.

SIGH....


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I'll try.

RealTrack 1217 is used in Style:
_VIBRANT (Xtra Pak 2)
_UNREAL (Xtra Pak 4)
_SURREAL (Xtra Pak 4)
_SMALLHR (RT 294)
_LUXMATIC (Xtra Pak 10)
_LOOSE (Xtra Pak 11)
_JAZVIBE (RT 111)

I found this by searching the Style Picker for 'steve nelson' then reviewing the Memo field for each of the 66 styles returned to see where RT1217 appeared.

You need to have those particular styles in your set, otherwise they won't be listed. If you don't have the Xtra Pak's, do you have either RT 294 or RT 111?

Hope this helps.


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Originally Posted by AudioTrack
I'll try.

RealTrack 1217 is used in Style:
_VIBRANT (Xtra Pak 2)
_UNREAL (Xtra Pak 4)
_SURREAL (Xtra Pak 4)
_SMALLHR (RT 294)
_LUXMATIC (Xtra Pak 10)
_LOOSE (Xtra Pak 11)
_JAZVIBE (RT 111)

I found this by searching the Style Picker for 'steve nelson' then reviewing the Memo field for each of the 66 styles returned to see where RT1217 appeared.

You need to have those particular styles in your set, otherwise they won't be listed. If you don't have the Xtra Pak's, do you have either RT 294 or RT 111?

Hope this helps.


Thanks AudioTrack.
The only ones in my UltraPak are _SMALLHR and _JAZVIBE
They are just so so in comparison to the Band cuts I mentioned above.
The band cuts have better sounding vibes and they also ring out through entire bars.
When I generate the above two, there are a lot of short choppy vibe sounds happening.

I'm hoping I can eventually get those demo sounds that Peter pointed to, into my song.
They really sound cool. When I first heard them I was smiling. But when I tried to actually get them
into my song and found them to be elusive I was not a happy camper.


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Originally Posted by BIABman
Thanks AudioTrack.
The only ones in my UltraPak are _SMALLHR and _JAZVIBE
They are just so so in comparison to the Band cuts I mentioned above.
The band cuts have better sounding vibes and they also ring out through entire bars.
When I generate the above two, there are a lot of short choppy vibe sounds happening.

I'm hoping I can eventually get those demo sounds that Peter pointed to, into my song.
They really sound cool. When I first heard them I was smiling. But when I tried to actually get them
into my song and found them to be elusive I was not a happy camper.

I tried _SMALLHR and it was quite similar to the demo.

Perhaps Peter can assist with how their demo songs were created?

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Originally Posted by AudioTrack
I tried _SMALLHR and it was quite similar to the demo.

Perhaps Peter can assist with how their demo songs were created?

When I play _SMALLHR the vibes sound hollow compared to the rich full sound in the demo.
I hope Peter can tell us the secret of how to get the demo sounds happening in BIAB.
Which exact Styles will deliver that sound?
Because if we can't, it's not fair to create a demo such as we hear.


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Originally Posted by BIABman
When I play _SMALLHR the vibes sound hollow compared to the rich full sound in the demo.

Feel free to use the mixer to adjust volume levels of the vibes and other instruments. Try adjusting reverb levels. No doubt that the audio demo had some mastering applied. You should experiment to see if you can improve the result you are hearing.

When I loaded the demo song, I noticed that the mixer levels are all flat. Start with the mixer and I suspect you might hear improvements.
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Originally Posted by BIABman
When I play _SMALLHR the vibes sound hollow compared to the rich full sound in the demo.

Feel free to use the mixer to adjust volume levels of the vibes and other instruments. Try adjusting reverb levels. No doubt that the audio demo had some mastering applied. You should experiment to see if you can improve the result you are hearing.

When I loaded the demo song, I noticed that the mixer levels are all flat. Start with the mixer and I suspect you might hear improvements.


Thanks again AudioTrack!
OK this is fascinating for me. smile

I would really like to get to the bottom of all of this, but it's still a mystery to me.

Could you please tell me EXACTLY HOW you got the demo song(s) (#1217) , (#1218) and (#1219) into
BIAB?

That would be a huge and great start for me. You were actually able to get tracks from them into BIAB?

Amazing. I have no clue how to do this. And were you able to create styles from that?

The closest I come to those audio demos is the ability to get 'Vibes RealTrack 1217 Rhythm Jazz Sw 110' to show up as one of my tracks inside the Style: _JAZVIBE.STY.
That's it.
And as I said when I listen to the style (_JAZVIBE.STY.) with the chords to my song it's nowhere close to the sound I hear in the demo.
For starters the demo uses sticks for the drums not brushes as appear in _JAZVIBE.STY.
Having said that, I actually want brushes, for my song, so that's not the issue.

The issue is to get the same vibe sound and e.q. we hear in the demo inside BIAB.


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I just loaded the demo for _SMALLHR like this:

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I didn't do anything else.


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Try these mixer settings:

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Also, what version / build of BIAB do you have?


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Also, what version / build of BIAB do you have?

Thanks again AudioTrack for helping.

I am using BIAB 2024 V. 1111 (the latest).
I can see that your demo is different than mine.
You have different drums and bass. (I don't have guitar/sax on mine)
Vibes are the same.

Please scroll down to the Band demo here:
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Vibes, Rhythm Jazz Sw 110 (#1217) Band Demo

and A/B this demo with the demo you posted here,
and tell me with a straight face that they sound the same.
They sound like night and day to me.


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Originally Posted by BIABman
Please scroll down to the Band demo here:
Band Demo
Vibes, Rhythm Jazz Sw 110 (#1217) Band Demo

and A/B this demo with the demo you posted here,
and tell me with a straight face that they sound the same.
They sound like night and day to me.
A correction to the above statement is required.
I never once mentioned the audio recording on the PG Music website.
I 'straight faced' suggested that this Demo and the loaded demo song sounded similar. See the next two screen captures for what I was referring to:

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New! Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Band-in-a-Box 2025 and Higher for Mac!

Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Mac & Windows Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) is here with 200 brand new RealStyles!

We're excited to bring you our latest and greatest in the all new Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Band-in-a-Box! This fresh installment is packed with 200 all-new styles spanning the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres you've come to expect, as well as the exciting inclusion of electronic styles!

In this PAK you’ll discover: Minimalist Modern Funk, New Wave Synth Pop, Hard Bop Latin Groove, Gospel Country Shuffle, Cinematic Synthwave, '60s Motown, Funky Lo-Fi Bossa, Heavy 1980s Metal, Soft Muted 12-8 Folk, J-Pop Jazz Fusion, and many more!

All the Xtra Styles PAKs 1 - 20 are on special for only $29 each (reg $49), or get all 209 PAKs for $199 (reg $399)! Order now!

Learn more and listen to demos of the Xtra Styles PAK 20.

Video: Xtra Styles PAK 20 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!

Note: The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 20 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version because they need the RealTracks from the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition.

New! XPro Styles PAK 9 for Band-in-a-Box 2025 and higher for Mac!

We've just released XPro Styles PAK 9 for Mac & Windows Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) with 100 brand new RealStyles, plus 29 RealTracks/RealDrums!

We've been hard at it to bring you the latest and greatest in this 9th installment of our popular XPro Styles PAK series! Included are 75 styles spanning the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres (25 styles each) that fans have come to expect, as well as 25 styles in this volume's wildcard genre: funk & R&B!

If you're itching to get a sneak peek at what's included in XPro Styles PAK 9, here is a small helping of what you can look forward to: Funky R&B Horns, Upbeat Celtic Rock, Jazz Fusion Salsa, Gentle Indie Folk, Cool '60s Soul, Funky '70s R&B, Smooth Jazz Hip Hop, Acoustic Rockabilly Swing, Funky Reggae Dub, Dreamy Retro Latin Jazz, Retro Soul-Rock Fusion, and much more!

Special Pricing! Until July 31, 2024, all the XPro Styles PAKs 1 - 9 are on sale for only $29 ea (Reg. $49 ea), or get them all in the XPro Styles PAK Bundle for only $149 (reg. $299)! Order now!

Learn more and listen to demos of XPro Styles PAKs.

Video: XPro Styles PAK 9 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!

XPro Styles PAKs require Band-in-a-Box® 2025 or higher and are compatible with ANY package, including the Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, and Audiophile Edition.

New! Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Band-in-a-Box 2025 and Higher for Windows!

Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Windows & Mac Band-in-a-Box version 2025 (and higher) is here with 200 brand new RealStyles!

We're excited to bring you our latest and greatest in the all new Xtra Styles PAK 20 for Band-in-a-Box! This fresh installment is packed with 200 all-new styles spanning the rock & pop, jazz, and country genres you've come to expect, as well as the exciting inclusion of electronic styles!

In this PAK you’ll discover: Minimalist Modern Funk, New Wave Synth Pop, Hard Bop Latin Groove, Gospel Country Shuffle, Cinematic Synthwave, '60s Motown, Funky Lo-Fi Bossa, Heavy 1980s Metal, Soft Muted 12-8 Folk, J-Pop Jazz Fusion, and many more!

All the Xtra Styles PAKs 1 - 20 are on special for only $29 each (reg $49), or get all 209 PAKs for $199 (reg $399)! Order now!

Learn more and listen to demos of the Xtra Styles PAK 20.

Video: Xtra Styles PAK 20 Overview & Styles Demos: Watch now!

Note: The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 20 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version because they need the RealTracks from the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition.

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