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Hi All, Here's our latest on SoundCloud. This is somewhat of an indie-style rock tune called JOURNEY. I walk the long road A lonely footfall Every time I meant to run I fell Or I crawled A whisper in the dawn A shadow or a fawn Every time I meant to stay I left I recall This road is never free It’s costing you and me This road is never free It’s costing you and me The room is barely lit Your breath against my wrist Every time I meant to speak I waited I missed The night won’t say my name The air feels much the same Every time I swore I’d kneel I stood Ashamed This road is never free It’s costing you and me This road is never free It’s costing you and me This road is never free It’s costing you and me This road is never free It’s costing you and me BIAB Tracks: 1009: Bass, Electric, HardRock 2755: Bass, Electric, Rock 2541: Pedal Steel, Background 3738: Guitar, Electric, Rhythm 3729: Guitar, Electric, Soloist 3064: Vocal Oohs, Rhythm Loop: Noisescratch100b RealDrums: MetalSlowTomGroove Other Notes: Bob Mic: Logitech Blue Yeti Bob Vocals: Logic Pro Bob Acoustic Guitar: Martin D-18 Joliz Mic: Audio Technica AT2020USB+ Joliz Vocals: GarageBand Waves Vocal Rider: All Vocals Pre-Production: Track Editing GarageBand & Logic Pro Izotope Nectar 3 Elements for Vocals Izotope Plasma for Instrument Tracks Processing Waves Magma Stressbox: Pre-master Final Track Mix & Master: Logic Pro & Izotope Ozone 11 Video: Adobe Firefly, iMovie & Final Cut Pro As always - thanks for listening! Bob
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Thanks Andrew. It was a link to my next song. Yes, you got right: I try to use the whole 180 degrees wide sound picture and even the depth of it by delaying the backing band more then the soloists. I pan even the bass guitar a bit from axis (some 25 to 33 degrees - abd often organ or accordion on the opposite side), because it has same frequency areas as soloists: specially solo guitar, but even in the vocals. I have published 31 own songs in SoundCloud: either my own melody or just lyrics, some translated into Finnish very freely. like in the next one I'm gonna post here. Most of them I have posted here. I've posted now 62 of my productions here, so almost half of them have my own melody or lyrics - and all my own arrangement usually purposely different from the original one.
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When I was young—which was a long time ago—I of course wanted to become a pop star, like any reasonable young man. So I learned to play the guitar by playing Beatles songs, got into a band at some point, which mostly played CCR and Deep Purple covers, and sometimes even got on stage in front of an audience—but my big unfulfilled dream was to record my own songs in a real studio. Life had other plans, a lot of them, but the dream wasn't dead yet, as I discovered when I stumbled on GarageBand on my first Mac and later came across Band-in-a-Box. Except that today, anybody can have a studio at home if he wants to. And except that it's still difficult to produce a good song. During the first lockdowns of the pandemic, I was not only equipped with all the necessary gear, but suddenly had a lot of time on my hands again. Music became an anchor during this emotionally turbulent time. This is how the following song, among others, came about. The title is »Silent World«. I started in Band-in-a-Box with the style P_PHIL_C.STY, 65 bpm, in the key of A minor. I took out all the tracks as MIDI files, put them into REASON, and used the instruments I had available there. The drums were played by the MT-Power-Drumkit, an add-on I miss dearly since I had to replace my old iMac with a new one that unfortunately no longer supports 32-bit-software. The bass was the built-in "upright bass", the electric piano the built-in "Wurly piano", and as far as synth voices were concerned, I had to choose from the huge variety that REASON overwhelms you with in this regard. Finally, the vocal parts, that’s me. I mixed all this with REASON’s plate reverb, its compressor, etc., and it was the first production where I used a loudness meter. So, here’s the link to Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/opur-music/silent-world and here are the lyrics: VERSE 1 We are not safe anymore We have to hide behind doors Don’t move, don’t weep, don’t shout We have to wait this out REFRAIN We never thought that the world could be so silent We never thought that the world could stand still We did not know that a flu could be so violent We didn’t know the whole world would get ill VERSE 2 How long will this go on? Will it be over in twenty-one? How many of us will die despite everything we try? REFRAIN BRIDGE: Our days are endless we don’t keep track of them we live so friendless the silence make us numb
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Hi BGP, If you right-click your mouse in the Tracks window, then click on "Generate" from the pop-up menu, you find the option "Freeze track from generation" available. This should do the job for you. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32406&filename=freeze tracks 2026.jpg) --Noel
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The OP style opens and auto substitures a green RT style. This is what my configurations would did if BIAB found a RT which was similar. OR, if if it could not find a similar RT it would load the yellow midi zzjaz.sty). That is all set in preference. So here is what happens. It file loads a green c_elpaso.sty - which is actually a yellow midi style I have. So it should not be "green". No Real Tracks load in track view. Only yellow midi appear in the Tracks view. When I hit play only the yellow midi is playing. This is not expected behavior. This went to the Developers 03/01/26, no response has been received to date. Perhaps someone can drop a dime on the Help Desk phone?
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Hey Rob, Man, you can sing really low, so low... and still stay in tune. Amazing! I played the song again after you started singing. I thought the rhythm of the song was a bit faster than when you joined in. But I was wrong. Everything fit perfectly. I imagined you were in the microphone. That's how close your voice sounded in the song.A really nice song, Rob! Hans Thanks, Hans! I'm always trying different things when it comes to singing, in hopes that I'll find something that'll make me sound good. No luck yet : ( You might be right the first time about when I came in on the song. I've been having trouble with that. I have something called essential tremor, it's neurological. I hope that's not the cause. It did end my guitar playing days, so it's some serious stuff. I can't use a smartphone either. But I can type, obviously. Though slowly, and with many errors.
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Hi Jally, Yes, I found this too and reported it on the beta testing forum on 1st March. This is a copy of that post: RB2026 on Windows 11 Pro. Test procedure - 1) Boot Realband from cold and start with a new file. 2) Create a MIDI click track, four to the bar. 3) Open the Notation window and click on the icon for edit mode. 4) Right click on the first note in any bar EXCEPT bar one and select edit note. 5) The time displayed will be for the first note in bar one, not the bar you selected. 6) Hit cancel and try to edit the note again and the time will be correct. (work around) Essentially, the time displayed will always be for the previous note, hence cancelling and selecting the note again works. The edit will always be on the note in the time display. If, instead of cancelling and reselecting the note, the edit is performed on the displayed note then various results can occur: Changing velocity - works. Changing time - moves the note to the displayed bar. Changing duration - causes the note to disappear. This isn't exhaustive - as I work through this, there may be other things as well. If anyone has time to try duplicating this..... Nothing back from support as yet.
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I usually don't watch videos, but this is one song where I think it's compulsory. Great tune, Hans, with terrific energy and a lot of fun elements (door closing sound effects). I stil think your productions are sounding particularly good since the new studio. Thanks for including the English lyrics. I'm very used to using Google Translate and have no problem doing so, but I appreciate you eliminating that step for us. I wasn't familiar with this guy (I know nothing about Dutch politics) but I'm glad he's being shown the door if he's a buddy of Netanyahu. Again, great song, super energy and super creative as we've come to expect from you.
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Hans, Bob and Mario, Thank you for listening and viewing and your generous comments. I am glad that I have introduced some forum members to the late, great Elliott Smith. Fortunately, he had a distinctive style that was possible to mimic, which I hope I did justice to. Andrew
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Whoa, what a party this track is! I'm going to pitch it to the Coen brothers for their next western!!!
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All good advice Gordon. I guess I’m just not sure what Dan was asking. Perhaps it’s just a comment not to believe everything you read from AI?
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Thanks. Some installer files are updated periodically and if there is a newer file (installer) available it will not show 'Installed' status - instead there is a message "Newer file available". However it seems that if you happen to have removed the old (previous) installer from your download folder, this message would not appear. This has been improved in 1.0.99 Now the message ("Installed but newer file available") appears if it was previously installed, even if the installer no longer exists. https://www.pgmusic.com/support.updates.win.dm.htmI'm not sure that I quite understand the explanation, but it doesn't matter much. The improvement will definitely help clarify. That will be especially helpful where big FLAC downloads are involved. I'm not sure about the sequential download issue - I couldn't seem to duplicate that. It went away for me also. If I find out how it came about and/or can make it repeatable, I'll update the post or post again.
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Hi Mario, I can imagine you went to bed to rest after making this song. I felt the same urge, just from listening to your "Wild Ride"! What energy there is in it! The drummer must be recovering in a nursing home by now... I think it's amazing how you manage to weave all of this into a cohesive whole that also sounds very appealing. You must be a good jammer then. And thankfully, you are! A jack of all trades. Whether it's classical or pop, you always manage to make something captivating. Great job! Hans Thanx so much Hans. Actually I am better at jamming with others than playing all by myself. Unfortunately there is no one else around my age to jam with anymore.
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Hi Mario, You use many different instruments that complement each other beautifully. The swelling of the music beautifully visualizes the fluttering of that butterfly. In my imagination, I can actually see it doing this. You can follow its journey until it finally lands somewhere for the last time. In any case, I enjoy listening to your music this way. At first, I thought I'd already heard "Butterfly," but that was a different song of yours. Those butterflies add a beautiful dimension, don't you think? Beautiful song, wonderful atmosphere! Hans Hans, thanx so much for this wonderful review. I'm glad that you liked it.
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Hi Brain, I just listened to this beautiful song again, multiple times, actually. The AI voices are amazing, or rather, your skills in directing them are simply fantastic! But please stay grounded. As long as you don't speak Dutch, you have to remain humble, right?... And as long as you act like it, I can give you enormous compliments! Maybe only an AI bot could do it better, but don't challenge me. You deserve these compliments, not just for this beautiful song with that moving melody, but for all the effort you put into creating such beautiful songs. From the beginning (or from the moment I heard about you), I've loved most of your songs. To let you in on a little secret (don't tell anyone): you made a song, I think it was called "A Fool" or something like that, that literally moved me to tears. Now you're probably thinking, "What a wimp," and maybe I am, but that's only because I love sensitive songs. But I mention all this here as a kind of tribute to your achievements in this area. Of course, my songs are better, but still...
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James, you created a true masterpiece with this one. Loved that intro, vocal, and lyrics. Great mix. IMHO this is your best to date. Loved it.
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Scott, you exhibited some outstanding chops on this one. Loved the tone of that axe; gotta love P90s! Nice wah wah pedal work also. Super melody. IMHO this is your best to date. Loved it
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OM, this is fantastic! You had me singing along with you. I know that I will be singing this song all day now! Outstanding work. Loved it.
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That's a good song! Authentic!! And I like that you kept it basic in terms of Real Tracks so that the lyrics are always front and center. And speaking of lyrics, like... "Simple life's a blessing, nothings guaranteed" "Dogs in the yard, they ain't too mean. " ...excellent. Well done, Herb. Since I had been doing a lot of music in the past year that had only a smattering of BB RT's I figured I would use as many of the real tracks on this one as I could, even forgoing playing the parts that I could play myself. ( and because I was just a wee bit lazy too) Glad you enjoyed it.
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Hi. Lovely song with very good performances. (In terms of the mix, I want to tuck the piano and maybe the vocal in a little bit, but please take that with a grain of salt.)
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What a fun song. Upbeat and interesting. Good mix and production with good vocals and harmony in the right places. Well done!
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Professional all around. Terrific sound. Love those guitar chops. Well done!!
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Hi Scott, Chay, Janice, Bud and James, What those dice can do... But I'm incredibly happy with your reactions, you really should know. It was quite a difficult subject, but I think it turned out well here, with this version. And judging by the way, you do too. Thanks for that! Cool tune Hans. Super vocal and lyric. Excellent backtrack, production and mix. Well done. Cool work on the video. Hi Scott, I think you're one of my most loyal supporters. You're always there with a nice, positive response. Thank you! As commented on YT, Love the instrumentation in this. Hello Chay, that's very nice of you! And I even didn't include violins... We liked the original and we like this remake, John, oops Hans. 😊 The dynamics and your soulful vocal suit the thoughtful lyric so well. Great group of BiaB session guys. That piano really shines as does the entire mix. Again, the lyric is so good and it reminded us of our mothers. And how thankful we are that they encouraged us to keep our “inner child” alive and well. The video clips were very supportive of the narrative. Loved it! J&B Hi J&B, John here; I told Hans not to interfere, but I'll respond to your message, since you always mention my name. I was thinking about the lyrics and the reactions to them. It's always mothers who tell us to love the child within our souls. No father would ever do that. Why? Don't they have a soul? Or can't they imagine there's a child inside? But I'm so glad you managed to protect your inner child. Is that also the case with Bud? And now back to Hans: I'm glad I can say something too, and I mean it seriously: thank you so much for your kind support and response, but also for emphasizing that you also liked the original version. Me too. Beautiful lyrics, excellent musical writing. One of your best, I think. Well done. Hi James, thanks for your kind compliments! And I also see a challenge in it. I hope to create more songs at this level! Thank you all, Hans
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Hi Marty, I don't know how, but I must have missed this song. Although it sounded very familiar, and even those scary images in your video reinforced that feeling. Anyway, I'll pretend I'm hearing it for the first time, okay? On YouTube, I wrote that it's an "ICE" cold song. If it gets too much for you, you're welcome in our country. Well... you do have to learn the language, but that won't be a problem for someone with your talents! A very good song, cynical, but with a realistic undertone. You can also perform it beautifully, disarmingly even, with your singing style. Because, as always, your singing is very good. And that makes—even—this song enjoyable to listen to! Hans
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