Herb, What's not to like? Pat and you wrote a gorgeous melody, and the arrangement is first-class all the way. Everything holds its place exactly as it should. The production impresses me almost as much as the song and performance. This is a song almost every one of us wishes we had written. Take care. BTW, there's a pretty good chance I'll be up in Galx next summer doing some genealogical research. Best to you ... Alan
Thanks Alan. Galax Virginia? That is not all that far from David Snyder and myself. I'm glad you liked the song. It's one of my favorites
Black Widow We’re working on an album release of our slow burn blues tunes … aptly named Burning Slow. 😀 Black Widow was first released 8 years ago and this is a re-mix with all new effects and mastering.
Now that's my kinda blues right there!! Love the groove! Vocals, lyrics and guitar work are excellent! Looking forward to hearing more from the album!
Glad you like this style of blues. Your kind remarks are much appreciated! J&B
I check often. Waiting for Realband bug id#5082 to be fixed. Major issue using F5 in chord view , generation does not obey F5 track settings. Let's hope next update includes a fix
Cool piece Mario. Got a chuckle when I read the part of the Lone Wolf being a lousy hunter. I think this is the definition of a vegetarian as well. Being a vegetarian I can attest to being a lousy hunter lol. Loved the melodies and fills and how you placed them in the mix. Well done
As I used a windows version, I was used to move through the chords using the Helix Floor's foot switches and the visual diagrams were helping too. With the MacBook version, suddenly I lost the features, making it difficult and cumbersome for me to engage in learning through the program. Instead I find myself searching for answers and loose that little interest I was hoping for. I spent all day to try things and search for the "Opt-Preference" as showing on the context help (Not) that either doesn't exist on the Mac version or PG Music has buried it somewhere in the user manual. Then in desperation I also asked Gemini for help needless saying that I was Fu***d.
Thanks Bob, David, Ron, Dave, Laurent, Bob, K-Dun ya, Floyd, Vic, Janice and Bud, B.D, Marty, mario, Janne, and Chay for checking out the song. Your comments were very much appreciated.
The buttons do what they did since the early versions of BIAB. You will see the whole chord, if the notes of the chord are played at the same time. If the chord is played as an arpeggio, or one or more notes with a little offset, the button will scroll through the timeline and visualises the notes played at the same time. If you open the leadsheet and guitar window you can see exactly what happens.
Vic...well written...really nice harmonies on the hook lines...wonderful melody...I thought the mix was well balanced...all that time you spent on it was worth it.
Alan...really nice composition...very mellow with a comfortable pace that truly makes it an "easy listening" tune...I hope your recovery continues effectively...glad to see you contributing again...best wishes.
Good one, Dan! I like the pared back section that then builds back up with ‘… carried me’. I hope one day we will hear you sing - or did you? Great lyrics that deserve to be sung by the writer. BTW thanks for the context of what you and your wife have been going through - sounds like you’ve very faithful. Andrew
Andrew...I appreciate your comments...I'm afraid that these days AI has become my voice at least my recording one...Dan
Originally Posted by vicarn
Nice to see you back. I've always admired your productions. Is that your vocal? Excellent production. Vic
Thanks Vic...again the vocals are AI voices and bands that I work with...I've left the performance aspect of recording. Writing and producing is where I'm at now...a new phase that keeps me involved and active with the music...thanks for your comments...Dan
Originally Posted by Al-David
Hi dan, I, too, have been absent for quite some time. I sincerely hope your wife is making progress in her recovery - it's a long process. She'll be in my thoughts and prayers tonight. Another terrific song from you. Your music is always a delight - so well conceived and presented. It was a true pleasure to listen to. I had a really bad accident back in early April after returning from a couple of months out of country. - been oin and out of the hospital but doing pretty good now. Thanks for a very nice listen ... Alan
Alan...thanks for listening and your thoughts...sorry to hear of your accident...I hope your recovery continues to go well...Dan
I got ‘lost in the sauce’ (aka drifting off) of this one, Chay, which is a good thing. So relaxing, and love the use of bossa. Good one. Also in admiration of your graphics work - interesting wall and window in one scene. Andrew
Thanks, Andrew! The image with the 'wall' and window is a variant of others I've created and used in my videos which use the same art deco rooms set. There are 2 other variant in my 'spy theme' track, the 2nd one with double windows the most elaborate:
As others have said, this is a great idea for a song and again it's a great production all around. See my comment on your "Put Me Right" re my feelings about Suno. DC Ron mentioned the wrong syllable emphasis on some of the AI vocals, but that was what I most disliked about Synth V vocals.
100% professional sounding southern rock, which I greatly enjoyed, particularly liking long solos. I can't negatively criticise the music in any way - for me it's 100% and brilliant - but there's just something about Suno which makes me not want to listen. When I create a song or instrumental the piece is mine, other than the actual playing - the composing, sampling/auditioning, arranging and mixing is all mine - then of course I've hired Fiverr vocalists for female vocals; so I feel closer to a composer who has an orchestra or whatever doing the playing. None of my material is mastered as I don't have the room on my PC for any new programs, but while Suno produces a way, way better quality of sound than I can ever get using BiaB alone I just feel that AI adds so much extra that it would be like a collaboration and the result wouldn't be all mine.
Hello Mike, I have no problems with my MacBook Pro M3 max and my MacBook Air M4. The arrangement of the monitors will not change after sleep-mode. Maybe this depends on how to connect the monitors to the mac? I have a thunderbolt dock where my devices (PSU, monitors, harddrives and audio-interface) are connected, so I have to connect only one cable if I use the other macbook. But no matter how I arranged my monitors it had no effect an the collapses with the track divider, maybe I didn't set it up to what Andrew said.
I find the menus at the top of the track view straining my eyes because they are so small. I did like the old set up better. Is there a way to make the text bigger or revert to the old set up where you saw all the menu choices ? Maybe its just my eyes getting old!
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