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Beth - congratulations on getting your songs on YT, may you very soon be discovered as the major artist you are! Wishing you the very best of luck with that and all your future work, hope you succeed with very many sales on CDBaby, Carl
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Good song, good vox, liked the crowd chatter. Yep, people hate originals, no way around it. Thanks but I think sometimes they do like originals…....... if ......they only stop to really listen.
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I can see a benefit of listing complementary styles. I often have had to search through a maze of other styles to find one that provides a required but subtle 'variation'. This could be done for MIDI styles too. (Mario will thank me  ) +1
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Thank you for the kind words, Matt! As a newbie it's been fun navigating the forums, but I'll keep an eye out for more specific sections for these kinds of threads.
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Hello fellow musicians! while working on a project in Band-in-a-Box, I encountered a portion of my song that was not feeling right. This made me think about re-generating to get a different feel but did not want to potentially lose the vibe of the entire project. After some trials and tribulations I recently discovered the keyboard shortcut for re-generating a section of the RealTrack! This is a big time saver, no more backpedaling or reverse engineering for me! If you have a section of a RealTrack that you'd like to re-generate, without generating the entire song, you can do so with the steps below: 1. Highlight the bars in the Chord Sheet View that you would like to change 2. Click to highlight the desired instrument in the mixer window you'd like to re-generate and hit one of the following keyboard shortcuts: Command+F8 - Regenerate part of RealTracks (modal dialog). Option+F8 - Regenerate part of RealTracks (floating window). Doing this gives you a different take or variation on one smaller section, as opposed to applying it to the entire song. There we have it, now you have a great way to get into your project with surgical-precision. Hope this Helps!  If you are a Windows user, click the following link to direct you over to the Band-in-a-Box for Windows version of this thread! (Re)generating Section of a RealTrack in Your Song. (Windows)
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A subject of much discussion in the early days. There are actually two ways to route the chord chart to a utility track. The one you describe results in the midi being static and not changing with changes to the chord track without repeating the process of writting the track. Just as you describe. There is a second way to do this. Go to Options Preferences - Output chords and select the Write Chords to track Option. Set the tract to send the chords. Thats it. The track will now be dynamic, not static and will changes as you change the chords. Keep in mind you will need to turn this feature off when you don't want this happening.
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Very cool song! Thanks for sharing this. Catherine
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Good song, good vox. Interesting use of SUNO, that's a different way to use it. I liked the lyrics for the most part, but I felt as if the word 'brat' stuck out like a sore thumb. Not a big deal.
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I'm no expert when it comes to country music, but this sounds pretty legit to me, Bob. Oh, I just read the review from Floyd, so there you go!  Really good writing, band sounds great as does the mix. And those Suno vocals always blow me away, amazing really! Good stuff, enjoyed. Yup, us blues guys don't know nuthin' 'bout country. Sugar Blue loves country, so he says. And Ray Charles made a second career of it. Otherwise, I think of the two genres as quite different.
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I can visualize the entire scene with your excellent storytelling. Good chorus. And as I have come to expect from you, excellent BGVs. THANKS, Scott! Yeah, love how the lyrics (not mine) imply details and backstories that the listener can fill in to tell a story much fuller than the words alone. I still shake my head sometimes at the power of the stuff I get to work with. Glad you liked the tune!
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Hi Fred (saw that's your name), I enjoyed this song. I've been to Las Vegas once, but I don't know anything about Reno. And I'm not a gambler, so I can at least tell you what a great song you made. Great rhythm and beautiful vocals! Even though you're not a gambler, you must have had the time of your life in Reno. It certainly seems that way, judging by this song. Everything about it is perfect, I can tell you that! Hans
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Hi Chay, This is a really nice song. A beautiful melody with great strings and a lead guitar. But you're right; I did expect vocals at times. I think Venus Twinkles needs vocals... So in your remake...? Still, it's a really entertaining song. I don't understand why you don't have many listeners on the forum, but I'm definitely in! Hans
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So...a follow up. I went out and bought the SVX cans. I installed the software, read up on how it is used and started to use it. They seemed overall, darker and duller sounding to my ears compared to my MDR's. Checking out the studio and listening environments included in the "essentials" version, it was kind of like, which flavor do you prefer? Straight up.....I'm not very impressed by the results at all. Yeah it sounds good, but when compared to the Sony MDR cans I have, I can't see or hear the justification for using the 2.5 times more expensive, SVX. They don't suddenly make anything more audible in the mix that I don't already hear clearly in my Sony cans. I've run a few "finished" mixes through them as well as a few I'm currently working on and honestly, I'm planning on returning them.
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Excellent band and mix. Man, I like how you incorporate dynamic stops perfectly. Dig that fiddle solo. HAHA! I like the short story. "I wrote a song..." Yep. One thing I really enjoy about your songs, David, is that I get to listen at least twice right from the start. The first one is mostly dedicated to your writing of the post. You crafted the vocals so well. I have no clue how to do that, but understand it takes a lot of learning. You learnt is well.
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Usually I walk much faster than this, but remember a couple time in NYC walking (some say staggering) with that speed. Seropously, Bob, this one has something special. I've been listening to you a lot lately. Man, I love your lyrics --no, mostly I love your ability to consistently write such good ones. Antoher great story set in a fine mix. Man, you phrasing is flawless as is you knack for writing music. Cool song about an address --to a cool museum.
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This one made me smile...and think...and smile some more. Kudos to the Band! p.s. My wipers barely work too, but I already bought the new ones:)
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That's lovely. Well played. The mix is terrific with everything clear and balanced. Soundtrack worthy.
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OK, maybe it's just me. I apologize., sorry for the inconvenience. /FWIW, on listening for the fourth time, I hear the timing being off between the played chords and the backing strat sound. That's all it was. They were close enough to make me think it was a glitch somehow at first. rharv, no need to apologize. You thought you heard something/did hear something and I didn't; all is well. And for sure my timing of the chords was definately off by some degree. PS> Do you know your inbox is full and no one can PM you?
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I wasn't on the forum in 2014, but it's good to have you back here. You've created a traditional country song, which I much prefer. Superb vocal. Mix sounds perfect to my ears. Thanks for the spin and your generous comments! Hi, Scott. Excellent work - classic country sound, and you've got the perfect voice for it. Happy retirement! That means you can spend more time on songs.  Thanks. I sure would like to spend lots of time on music and songs and be as productive as you and others are. Hi Scott. This is first-class listening. Your voice is such a great fit with this genre and your performance was outstanding. I really enjoyed listening to and your song. A++ all the way! All the best with your retirement! --Noel Gosh, Noel, thank you! Great song, great use of BIAB, and man, you have THE perfect voice for this genre. Perfect! Enjoyed my listen. A lot! Perfect? I don't know what to say except thank you! Good to see ya back around, Scott. You do classic Country so well. Perfect voice for it. Nice harmonies, too. Good clean mix. Enjoyed. fj Thanks for all of that, Floyd. Truly value your feedback. Hope you and yours are doing well.
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Lovely vocal Janice. Beautiful collaboration with Floyd. Loved the lyric and backtrack. Awesome production Bud. Well done.. Thanks Scott! It was a fun re-do. J&B
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Hi Mario, I don't mind the dissonance at all...it is as you said intentional and artistically chosen and suited. Someone commented "sophisticated" and I think that's the best word to describe it. Most enjoyable bit of funky, cool jazz. I hope things are back in order at your house!
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Hi Sol! This song has a wonderful slow dance feel. I could picture a couple on the dance floor, whispering in each other’s ears, saying “I love you just the way you are.” This song would go well at a 50th wedding anniversary function! Well done. Andrew Thx
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Love this, Noel. I'm fascinated by your source of inspiration and how it launched the organic creative process, everything coming together syncronistically. Great idea of delving into classical chord progressions. The voice fits perfectly too.
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❓ Would one version of Band-in-a-Box for Linux work with all Linux Distros or would the program need to be Distro specific? Mostly not other than for the different CPUs, mostly x86 and Arm. The OS architecture remains the same, so that should mostly be a build. A number of applications have targeted installer to suit specific distributions, but just about every distribution supports both .deb and apt. Some applications use an install script, which allows making decisions about the specific distribution, e.g., do you want this installed for just you, or for everyone, installed in home, or in /opt or in /usr/local. Some decisions can be automatic, e.g., if I'm installing as root, then this is likely an install available for everyone on the machine. Also, wouldn't the audio and midi settings be complicated since each Distro has a unique set of features? There is a bit of an issue on Linux in that there are several audio-handling systems around, those intended for serious use and those aimed at naive users and they don't always work together as seamlessly as one might like. That said, I think the low-level drivers now are probably always ALSA, to which one can always connect and the "serious user" layer above that in the Jack Audio Connection Kit, which links all the audio and midi signals via a patching system. There are software bridges between things so the applications don't have to worry too much, though sometimes the users do. The layers for naive users are PulseAudio and PipeWire. The are for the "I want it to just work" users. Generally there are bridges between those and Jack, so serious audio applications probably ignore them. Reaper Audio is Jack or ALSA or PulseAudio or "Dummy Audio" (I presume the latter is a fake audio port). Ardour/Mixbus is Jack or ALSA or PulseAudio My older Renoise is Jack or ALSA MuseScore Studio uses "System Default" PianoTeq is Jack or ALSA There's a quite helpful explanation of Linux Audio here on YouTube (from 4 years ago and fairly techy). It explains some of the complications of audio on Linux. Against that, it shows things that simply can't(?) presently be done at all on Windows.
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XPro and Xtra Styles PAKs Special Extended Until August 31st!
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