Originally Posted by AudioTrack
Somewhat impressive, some nice features, but I also felt that the backing was particularly repetitive. Perhaps there are settings for variations that could be added?
AudioTrack,
Yes, I agree that this demo is repetitive and there are setting buttons including 3 different intros, 4 variations, 4 different fills, 1 break and 3 different endings. But the intent wasn’t to build a complete radio-ready song but rather to demonstrate the ability of this keyboard’s “band” to follow in real-time, the chords played by a human player. I hope this was clear. I find this technology not only amazing but a ton of fun.

The fun continued yesterday when a family friend came over to play on it. She doesn’t know what a DAW is and never heard of BiaB but she was classically trained on the piano as a child as is now getting back into it after a several year lapse of interest.

I duplicated the demo I posted earlier for her and when I looked up when finished, she had a dumbfounded look on her face. Her brain couldn’t reconcile the fact that this machine could follow every chord change I made with no detectable time lag. So I showed her a few main buttons and within minutes she was cycling thru the pop, reggae, rock and other styles to which I’d jam along with her on my bass. I think this was her first jam session. She finally stumbled upon a demo called Movie Swing and wants to build an entire song from it and put a concert flute lead on top.

Here is the beginnings of that song (only an idea fragment) which is 100% a factory demo except for me telling it when to transition from one section to the next. Although this is not really my preferred style of music, I’ll enjoy the challenge of developing a bass line to accompany this piece. It’s all about growth and fun.

Movie Swing Demo

The chords I show were displayed on the Pa5X screen. And as many here like to say, “Your mileage may vary.” Meaning, someone may very well arrive at different chords after analyzing this song fragment.

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