<< Charlie Fogle, you talked a lot about theories, but not a single word in practice. >>

You've made some great points and observations and I appreciate your good nature in discussing these unique BIAB features and tools. I've not gone into detail to how these features work up to now as this has been a discussion rather than a tutorial.

RT#1152, MultiStyles, RealTrack Medley Maker, Song Form, Artist Performance Files, Audio Chord Wizard, Chord Sheet, BIAB Mixer, The Audio Track, Repeats/Coda's, and Part Markers are all tangible, real features of BIAB and all of my screenshots are real BIAB results, not mock-ups.

<< You said "to implement any of the advanced tools, features, techniques and processes of the BIAB algorithm."

Well, how? >>

The short answer is to use them. In the User Showcase, you can hardly find songs that use repeats, MultiStyles, Artist Performance Files, or the Medley Maker. Most productions are exported BIAB tracks to be manipulated, edited, arranged and mixed/ volume automated, comped and add effects in a DAW. One of the reasons that brought me into this discussion is I have recently looked at about 10 YouTube videos on using BIAB. Some were gifted and experience musicians but all of them made the most basic SGU files that BIAB can produce - essentially input a 3 chord progression and generate. None of the videos featured any of the above features.

<< Can you provide a step by step guide, on how to use BiaB to create a soloist track, with 16 bars of unchanged audio directly from data file eg4800.wma?

I doubt you can. >>

Yes, you're right. No I can't. To explain why, I'll assume the eg4800.wma file to be as it's represented in the BIAB program, a RealTrack audio data file to be used with RT#1167.

As a RealTrack audio data file, eg4800.wma is a studio recording by a session musician, in a recording studio and exists as recorded audio. It's not a generated BIAB SGU Performance. Nothing exists for users to recreate this live recording. The 16 bars were recorded following a proprietary chart prepared by PG Music developers. The session musician likely followed an SGU Chord Chart and backing tracks for the session player to follow along with a printed or chart on a PC screen. No BIAB production features, tools and processes would be added or necessary because that track is being recorded live to be used as a RT audio data file, not a performance. However, that SGU file could and was likely used for the instrument demo audio.

Even with the exact Chord Sheet they used, generating a BIAB file with that same eg4800.wma file included, the BIAB algorithm is designed to select material from the entire folder of all the included wma files in the folder not just the one eg4800.wma file. So, the only way to generate the exact soloist track is to have the session player record it again.

<< To a user, the only way, is to drag eg4800.wma to the DAW, and manually cut it up. >>

This is mostly correct. You can do it in BIAB and extract the entire 16 bars, convert that into an Artist Performance File, analyze the chords, tempo, key and populate the Chord Chart and play it over the correct Chords. You would be able to change the tempo, key and style but not chord changes. You would also have to manually add the underlining midi to have notation and tabs. If it exists as a demo or an Artist Performance, that would be another way to use it.

Notice in my last post two screenshots where I did what I've detailed above with a Brent Mason Artist Performance. His performance is 4 choruses of 29 bars plus the ending. It is already in the Artist Performance File format that can be used in a SGU file or in the Artist Performance SGU song. Either way I can play that track and chord progression slowed down, learn with the notation and tab, loop it and have speed up after each consecutive loop to practice the solo and start slow and get it up to full speed.

This procedure can be done with any instrument, any track from any style or SGU chord sheet if the RealTrack has underlying midi for display of the notation and tabs.

For example, you can create a SGU Chord Chart and use a Brent Mason soloist RealTrack with underlying midi and work on the solo until it sounds the way you like, any changes, regenerations and such, the midi notation and tabs will be updated. Once you are satisfied, convert it to an Artist Performance File so it remains exactly the same regardless of the tempo, key and style you practice with it

Any file, regardless the format, (midi, SuperMidi, Loops, RealTracks or live recorded audio can be converted to an Artist Performance Track by Right clicking on the Track, opening Track Actions and selecting the bottom selection - Save Track as a Performance File. Note: the SGU project must be saved first or you will be prompted to save the file before BIAB will complete the action.

I've attached a link to a post from 2020 I made about Artist Performance Files.

The Case for "Artist Performance Tracks"

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