As time passes, I am beginning to have some memory issues. It is a little more complex than that. There has been some loss of physical dexterity, which makes playing the guitar more difficult. Plus I have been almost 100% away from the music for over a year now. Perhaps things will improve with practice. I am finding it possible to play piano with less issue than guitar.

As a result, I have been trying to figure out how to create a song much more electronically.

Real Tracks seemed to be the direction BB was going in and continues to go in. I assumed a lot of the posted music was derived from the manipulation of real tracks and perhaps a live guitar and vocal.

It has always seemed to me that I could create a BB song but I never could quite create one of my original songs in BB. That was what caused me to move more and more into midi.

The effects of throat cancer surgery have caused speaking to be difficult and singing to be more or less impossible. The frequent use of opioids to control the pain causes their own set of negative issues.

I certainly have zero desire to push a button and have a song spit out as in AI. I also have zero interest in letting BB or other programs choose the chord structure and generate a song.

I seem to have forgotten most of what I know about Mylodyne but at least today I took a couple of Real Tracks and converted to midi with no issue. Piano Real Tracks, which I then could play out with EZkeys and the zillion sounds it can create.

I would like to have an idea of what sort of process you guys go through.

I generally have a chord progression in my head or play one on the piano, type that into BB, and pick a style.
I generally have some lyrics written down before I start which defines the chord types to some extent. Drums get created in Addictive Drummer or Superior Drummer many times using the drums generated in BB as a starting guide.

I am finding ChatGPT very useful in generating lyrical ideas. It is a little too much like poetry and requires a lot of work to get it to suit me, but a good starting place.

With this sort of process, it seems like BB is becoming a smaller part of the process every year.

I see a lot of talk on the forum about other software being used in conjunction with BB.

I am just wondering if others here are finding BIAB and unaltered Real Tracks to be a smaller part of the final song.

Thanks,

Billy

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“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”