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Well, I think that just about (*********) says (*******) everything we (*********) needed to (**********) know. Good (*********) job on the (**********) song. You (*********) know what the (****) you're doing when it comes to (**********) writing a (*******) song. What else is left to (*******) say? Good (*********) mix too. (*******) Yeah. I (*********) like it! I (*******) totally agree and I couldn't (*******) have said it any (*******) better! Hehehe...  Thank you very much, Mario
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Your percussion section is almost hypnotic. I really like that. Of course, I really LOVE the lyrics - you’re singing about something that’s very close to my heart. And you do it really well. Enjoyed my listens a lot ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif)
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Whenever I need a smile, I listen to your songs, Noel. A beautiful song, written in your usual optimistic style. Personally, I've never really liked NineZero's voice because it always sounds a bit nasal, but that doesn't change the fact that I like your song. Still smiling
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Beautiful in its simplicity. Enjoyed my listen. A lot
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The Beach Boys meet Buddy Holly. Not sure we can explain that ... but Janice felt it. Great vocals and we much liked the bgv's Leslie effect. You never disappoint with the mix and this is no exception. We use Kali monitors with an 8" woofer and this tune rocked! Cool lyric to the max - love the chorus "No ufo’s” We're long time fans of "connect your own dots" lyrics and this is a fine one. A hit! J&B
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Great song, Marty - I wanted to twirl in my office chair! Thanks for the share! Catherine Thanks, Catherine. What a great place to work, i'm sure. I can imagine everyone dancing all day. Thanks for all you all do, and keep on dancing, Catherine.
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Great sound, Mario. Very pleasant listening experience. Laurent More lovely sit back and drift off into dreamland music, Mario. Excellent in all respects. Thanx so much Laurent and Chay. I appreciate your kind words.
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I see this behavior fairly often - If Risi doesn't reply I will try and do a video when I get home this afternoon or at the very least lay out the exact steps. I can say it only happens when i use the "Find the best substitute for . . . " real track function. Have never had an issue when I just select real tracks from scratch or even replace a real track.
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And we won't even talk about the amount of Data Center energy spent on making cats play guitar, dance and sing . . .
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There you go with those lyrics again, Bob. For some reason it reminds me of Roxy Music's, Slave To Love. Very nice. Vic
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Hey all, I just upgraded to BIAB 2025 for Mac, and when I try to open the song picker I get the "Spinning Beach Ball of Death" and have to force quit. I even tried leaving it go for a while, but after 4 hours I gave up. I had been using 2024 earlier and it was fine. I installed 2025 and it started. I ran the 904 update and it's the same. I'm running a 2018 Mac mini, MacOS 15.7.4 Sequoia (last available upgrade for my model), with 16GB memory, and 228GB available HD space. I checked the system requirements in the PG FAQ, and my Mac should be compatible. I've restarted my computer a couple times. Nothing helps. Has anyone had this issue? Can anyone think of a way to fix it? Delete everything and do a clean install?
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Really enjoyed the instrumentation and arrangement of this song. I have about as much hair as you do and I have it cut every 5 weeks, but I now find myself combing my head before I go out, when I come back home and whenever I take off or put on a pullover, but when I look in a mirror nothing's changed!  Thanks for listening Chay! My older brother - who also is bald - had t-shirts made up emblazoned with ‘Joyfully recede’. Andrew
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Thanks! And yes, a lot of truth to this song even today (original song written in the 80s). Keep in mind though, I think Kathy is using imagery in this song to describe a failed relationship.
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WaoBand, Appreciate your positive comments! I wrote this (with Kathy's lyrics) back around 1980 with just an acoustic guitar and my vocal. Adding real musicians from BIAB, plus some harmony and background vocals, harmonica and a little piano vamp during the verses, really spruced it up.
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Hi Chay, Well, something completely different from what you're used to! It's a very punchy, cheerful pop/rock song with an amazing guitar solo! The singing immediately reminded me of LUV, a famous Dutch girl pop group from around the 80s/90s. It is indeed funny/interesting to hear how the vocals can make your instrumental song something completely different (I believe Laurent wrote that too). You did a good job with this! Hans Thank you, Hans! Very much appreciated. I hadn't heard of Luv, so I watched some videos on YouTube and I see what you mean re the similarity in vocals, particularly in that song with the Scots bagpipes, though Luv are also very Abba-like.
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A beautiful production with also beautiful vocals and amazing jazz piano. I was recently talking with a Filipina fan of Chinese and Japanese songs, particularly those which appear in movie soundtracks. What's always impressive is how poetic the lyrics are compared to in Western songs. This song is a classic example of that.
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A wonderful blues romp and I particularly lover your harmonica playing! Production, mix and arrangement, etc, is excellent, so I shall add no more!
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For me, Band-in-a-Box (BIAB) is a great product, especially because it works with a chord sheet. And it's designed to be used far beyond the traditional backing track, particularly as a composition aid. For that, it doesn't lack much except for a few assistants to generate MIDI based on parameters: generating chord progressions from a progression library, possibly with different voicings; generating MIDI phrases (arpeggios, rhythms, etc.). It wouldn't necessarily be about covering all the functions of Scaler and others, but the essential functions that are very useful. The Band-in-a-Box plugin could then advantageously replace plugins like Scaler and RapidComposer, which are, all things considered, quite complex.
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What a great theme for a song! It reminds of my previous home where I had a view of very old and high conifers, plus another yard over they kept doves and I'd often see 40+ circling around right outside my windows. They were spectacular. Your song is excellent all around and has a great production, plus I love that short guitar solo.
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I’m following this of course for all the reasons listed, and I have one more reason. In the Tips and Tricks Forum, I wrote a sticky article about BIAB not always playing the chords that you wrote. When you do not change from the default key of C and proceed to enter chords in a key that should have a different key signature, particularly one with several flats or sharps, you can get odd and sometimes ‘wrong’ notes, and odd enharmonic choices. I'm puzzled by this mention of seeing - not seeing - the key signature, and whether the point is for printing or whether it actually affects the algorithm for choosing what we hear.
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A nice new instrumental take on the "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". As other have noted, it's a great guitar tone for the piece. When I created my "Venus Twinkles" instrumental last October I was using a lot of 5ths chords for the first time, but what I had needed a chorus, then doing some research I discovered that "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" was an example of perfect 5ths, so I added it as a sort of chorus, then for 2 sections I also added the chords to "Hush". Next in December I had to do a vocal version - "Venus Twinkles [Lady of Love]" with Lucy, but I wrote my own lyrics, for example changing the 2nd line from "How I wonder what you are" to "Now I know just who you are" (Venus). Then in March I did the rock version, "Venus Twinkles [LoL- solid rock version]", which is still my current post as I've been struggling getting demo vocals for Lucy and others to sing due to the limitations of where I live. My neighbour now has a dog that yaps whenever I try to record!
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https://soundcloud.com/esa-blomberg/jesse-james-reggae-g100?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=cabca960da82420999dd2c9c47701430 "The Ballad of Jesse James", or simply "Jesse James", is an 1887 American folk song about the outlaw of the same name, first recorded by Bentley Ball in 1919 and subsequently by many others. There are many versions of the lyrics. The lyrics are largely biographical containing a number of details from Jesse James' life, portraying him as an American version of Robin Hood, though there is no evidence to indicate that he actually "stole from the rich and gave to the poor". The song is the starting point of the Jesse James panel of a mural on American folk songs by Thomas Hart Benton. "But that dirty little coward, that shot Mr. Howard, has laid poor Jesse in his grave." Robert Ford, who killed Jesse, was a James' gang member. Mr. Howard was the alias that James lived under in Saint Joseph, Missouri at the time of his killing. In my reggae style version I sing and play guitars. I produced this at my home with Band in a Box and Reaper. ****** Song Summary ************* Key=G , Tempo 100, Length (m:s)=3:07 Style is _REGGAE1.STY (Uptempo Reggae) RealTracks used: RealTracks in style: 1153:Bass, Electric, Reggae Ev16 100 RealTracks in style: 1156:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm Reggae Ev16 100 RealTracks in song: ~~673:Organ, B3, Background Blues BB Ev 085 RealDrums in style:ReggaeClassic^1-a:Sidestick, Hihat , b:Sidestick, Kick, HiHat
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An excellent production, Hans.
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This had me hooked from the intro! In all aspects this is a brilliant cruising rocker, plus I'm surprised at the switch to Audimee vocals, which are excellent. An incredible band and arrangement! Thanks, Chay.... FANtastic, Floyd. Love the whole idea. Hey, I've sat in many orchestra pits for college productions (although i never went to college), so if ya need one, please... Man, what a great idea, and i really like how you're developing it. This song and Tammy's Tattoos!!! This is gonna be the best thing of '26 for sure. I also hope the "book" will be available for purchase. Love this stuff. It's really cool how you can create a whole musical by stringing (mostly already) written songs. That in itself is genius. If genius is singular, you are genii. Thanks, Marty. We'll definitely put ya in the pit
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