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"I just now installed my free upgrade of SMP 5. I’ll be giving it a whirl soon." Hi Matt, Where do you see the free upgrade to SMP 5. I'm on SMP 2.7 Pro with an upgrade price of £60 Thanks. I am pretty sure you must own both products "Prism and Song Master Pro" for the free upgrade. I own both of them is why mine was free.
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A real, proper anthem. Bravo.
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Floyd, Thanks so much. It means a lot to us. Bob
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I'm a huge fan of Deej's vocals and this song was a great vehicle for that. Lead guitar was great, too. And Shigeki is a master. So, all told, this is a resounding success. Well done, Sound Guardians! Hi Bob, Thank you so much for your feedback. I really appreciate it. And with this lineup, it's not that hard to write good songs. BiaB has also contributed some surprisingly good instrumental tracks. Andi ;-)
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Hi Bob That sounds really cool. You play that absolutely brilliantly. Great job! Andi ;-)
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It is time for another scorching rocker in the style of the Cure though. I am jones-ing for one. +1 G'day Andrew Not sure if that's an endorsement of this song or a request for another rocker? I'm hoping it is the former because as a fellow "digger" I really need your "fair dinkum" scrutiny if it passes the pub test or not? And yes I know that I need to get my finger out and review your and Lee's fabulous recent songs! cheers Izzy AND .......The Australian entertainment industry (especially music) was/is solely built by "£10 Poms" so huge respect ! 💯💥 👋👌👍 now you have to give me a good review. (◔_◔) cheers Izzy.
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Thanks, Deej. The "voice did crack" line had me thinking, too. Two reasons why I kept it: 1) I needed it to rhyme with "back", in the next line; and 2) I was hoping it would express acceptance more: "although, with tears, my voice did crack / your mind was made: no going back". I'm not sure "cracked" expresses that in the same way as the above, with an accent on "did". But yes ... it IS an awkward rhyme, it's just that I personally can't find a "better" one ... argh. As for the Suno thing, I did not change back into D major, originally, so I had to transpose the final section down a whole tone, from the previous section's E major, in order to do so. Result: sound was affected. I actually tried the transposition in Suno Studio, hoping that that would not alter the sound unduly ... but no, it did ... argh. I'll see what I can do to make this transition and transposition more subtle ... Thanks so much for stopping by, listening and commenting! Really grateful! 
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Thanks TuneMonger and Mario!
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All aboarddddd!! Hi Marty, great storytelling tied into a rocking train beat. The resonator, banjo and fiddle fit perfectly into that moving southern style…..I think Kansas is southern-ish, isn’t it? Another excellent song Marty, loved it, kind regards.
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Hi Alan I can confirm it’s sounds and is just as enjoyable on a Sunday afternoon. Brightens up a very gloomy Adelaide. Well played, kind regards.
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Hi Janice & Bud That is soooo good. Lyrically showing us how to draw a positive mindset from a negative experience. Well sung, well played and really, really good. Kind regards
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Hi Mario Given the light and airy feel to this song, I wouldn’t have said more than a light sprinkling! I know how you feel though, rain, overcast and dull here in Adelaide today and the next couple of days…roll on spring! As I said, a very light feel and easy listen. If it were chucking it down, then this would certainly lift your spirits. Very well composed and played tune. Great stuff. Kind regards.
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Hi there Waoband, Thank you for your thought and encouraging review. I too worry that we’re living in trouble times but try to remain positive that we’ll get through this difficult phase. I don’t believe we’re quite at the apocalypse just yet, but I do worry about the mess our generation is leaving the next. Chin up ol’ chap, at least you’re having a cracking summer this year. Kind regards.
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So, the redesigned part I linked to won't work?
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Yes it does help. The three songs are placeholders and do nothing I will delete them in the next build. Yes the help menu needs updating. I had to take a break for a couple weeks hope to hit it again this next week. I will create a folder of test songs.
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There are no stem splitters or vocal extractors that do a quality job. Oh yeah, they're halfway decent and get the job done but it's still subtractive. That means it doesn't have the quality of an original track. The timbre and character are missing. It's weak and watery sounding and filled with artifacts from the extraction process and the missing data. Until extraction is able to not only extract the instrument or vocal and then rebuild the track and replace the missing data, it's only going to be a shadow of what musicians expect to hear. t I partially agree, I can generally hear all of the quality issues you mention, but even with that "halfway decent and get the job done.." can be pretty damn good. I understand this is likely not what pro players and producers are looking for, but most of us are not pros. Here is a recent example I posted yesterday: https://soundcloud.com/danjhoch/play-me-071026-cover The source was a Youtube video. I extracted two stems, 1) Vocal and 2) the guitar (the rest). There were no other instruments in the original song. The only original content in my cover is the guitar stem. I admit it is weak at times and has artifacts (very minimal). I have done what I can to mask any quality issues. In my opinion "halfway decent does get the job done". Listen and comment if you care to.
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Hi Mario! The trumpet melody over the funk gave me ‘George Gershwin meets George Benson’ vibes. Loved it! Andrew
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What I like and find fascinating about this song is that even though line upon line the lyrics don’t have any connection, my brain is still trying to find a connection and make sense of it. And at the end of it, it’s convinced that there is some structural meaning to the song. Once you identify the connection, please let me know. I’m half inclined to think my subconscious is trying to tell me something. I think the stripped back and clean arrangement works really well, as it gives the listener a good chance to hear the disconnections and mess with their thought processes. I didn’t want too much clutter, thinking ‘less is more’ but hadn’t thought how this might help the listener - I’ll have to keep this in mind for future! I'm always surprised how all three of us have completely different takes on the same challenge, it’s good. What? I have never heard such complete and utter nonsense! So you have absolutely nailed this months brief Andrew. I think I’ve always had a propensity for nonsense - or is that a proclivity? In recognition of your comment, I’ve just nailed my briefs to the wall.  I don't know what you guys down there are smoking or drinking but I want some! You and Lee post some extremely interesting and excellent music. We’re drinking Australian made coffee - I mostly have a ‘flat white’ (think cappuccino without the froth) or ‘dirty chai’ (a chai latte with a shot of coffee). We’re cut from the same cloth in so many ways and have been influencing each other for over 50 years albeit with a hiatus in the middle. What a blessing to have a long-term friendship! The song is superb. The lyrics are delightfully confusing. You've done a wonderful job here ... my attention was kept throughout. The lack of "sense" in the lyrics meant that I could just relax and listen, without "trying to follow". Sounds like John Lennon in places. Great, great job. ‘Delightfully confusing’ … we could almost say enigmatic, and I’ve always wanted to be an enigma. I’ve watched far too many YouTube reaction videos, so that is what inspired the video. I was really heartened to find that Clipchamp had a giphy for ‘Manchurian folklore’! Musically a great production and your vocals suit the 'nonsense' lyrics. I’m taking that as a compliment! In my early 20s I went through a period of writing 'nonsense' poetry, though it was more like surrealism. One poem is titled "Gentleness or The Wood To Wood Coast Turpentine of Palomino Spectroscope"!  Maybe I should compose an instrumental with the same title?! It would be interesting to hear how you interpret this musically, and whether you have sufficient graphics in your home-grown library! … and good use of the interrobang in your response! Thank you Lee, Mario, James, David and Chay for listening and commenting! Andrew
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thanks Jeff. My essential version is so limited in content it is hard to use it for anything. I have seen what tonalics can do and I do like how it synchs so nicely with my music which is almost always Tempo Map driven for all my midi FX. In my hands, BIAB RTs fails me since synching. I do a lot of this type of production so I will likely just pop for the $45 to have the full tool available. I finalized a project yesterday where I initially wanted a guitar in the Break/Solo section. Since there was nothing available in my limited essential version, I selected to use EZKeys instead. Check out the Break Section if you care too - ~ 14 bars. I suppose I could have squeezed in a RT, but I was under a time crunch and my BIAB skills have dulled with lack of usage. https://soundcloud.com/danjhoch/play-me-071026-cover
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A really beautiful, laid-back song that reminds me a little of Chris Rea. It would be great if you could write some lyrics and find a singer for it. The song deserves it Thanks, Brian! I would so love to be doing vocal songs full time, plus due to the limitations of where I live it's now a few years since I last played guitar. I have oodles of songs from past years that I'd love to be doing in BiaB, both vocally and playing guitar, plus ideally I wish I could be recording in a studio.
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Beautiful song and production, Shigeki! I love the translation of the very poetic and intimate lyrics. A superb communication of love!
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There is something wrong with your setup. Not working for PG Music nor for Apple, I can't screen share to see what it is. I do notice that you state you're running over macOS 15.6.1. The current version of Sequoia is 15.7.7 and a whole lot of bugs have been squashed in the mean time. You have allowed BIAB access to the Microphone in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Microphone, right? If you haven't, this explains the problem. All audio apps must allow this. When you double-click on an m4a file, it's the System that's playing back the audio, not BIAB. I have a Sequoia test Volume. Hooking up my 2023 BIAB Audiophile drive, my results were identical to my earlier Tahoe test: Everything works and auditioning Styles through the StylePicker resulted in the audio playing back as it should. I then connected the drive to my new M5 Air running Tahoe and got the same results—everything fine. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32786&filename=Screenshot 2026-07-11 at 11.39.01 AM.png) ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32784&filename=Screenshot 2026-07-11 at 11.11.26 AM.png) ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32785&filename=Screenshot 2026-07-11 at 11.11.57 AM.png)
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Laurent, Excellent Rock. Excellent mix. Enjoyed the listen. fj Thanks for the comments, Floyd. Laurent
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Very nice song there, Floyd! Really good piano work, as well. I know what you mean about the paper. You should see my stack of school boy notebooks as Tunemonger describes. A mountain. Yeah, keep doing it the old fashioned way, man. It is the only thing I respect so don't go changing. Keep on keeping it real. I am reminded somewhat of this ad. This my world view now. Ten years from, this could be me. Do It The Old Fashioned Way
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+1 but with the proviso identified by Rustyspoon that they should be flagged rather than deleted.
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