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Re: Outside Your House Janice & Bud 2 minutes ago Forum: User Showcase
Tamed well enough indeed. smile Yea! A happy ending love song! Your vocal was great at creating the longing and hopefulness of the song’s fella. The video’s characters reminded Janice of Toy Story’s Woody and Jessie with their smiles. Cool! As always, a strong band with great performances by you. And Dave’s guitar was icing on the cake. Nice mix and, man, your bass cuts through perfectly. So many mixes are missing that. Enjoyed it, J&B
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Re: It's My Band David Snyder 7 minutes ago Forum: User Showcase
Oh wow! That is so cool! Man can you send me a PM and send me his mobile number? I need to give him a call about something. 🤣🤣🤣 I don't think anybody on the forum is ever going to be able to top that one man. That is outrageously cool.
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Bar Lines and Numbers spiro13 15 minutes ago Forum: Beginners Forum Jump to new postsJump to new posts
Hi When I booted up BIAB for some reason the vertical lines and bar numbers were missing from the backing tracks. This view makes it difficult to make changes to or create new tracks. I have tried every option and view but have no success in getting them to return. I would appreciate any assistance to correct the situation. Thank you, Tony
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Re: Play Button in StylePicker Not Playing the Highlighted Style AurealiusB 25 minutes ago Forum: Band-in-a-Box for Windows
No, this issue is not resolved. I have been using BIAB for years (at least 10). Viewers of my posts should not only know that BAIB 2024 had this functionality, but previous versions had two play buttons, and this was great because one of the buttons (I think the green one) allowed for non-destructive playing/previewing highlighted styles playing the song's current chords.
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Re: Writing Harmony to a Non Melody Track jonel 26 minutes ago Forum: Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Thank you Ember for all the detail you have provided. I found the whole harmony fearure a bit tricky. I am using BB to generate harmonies. What I'm doing, or ttrying to do, is to create 3 or 4 part harmonies of my melody. The harmonies will be used be differnt instruments in orchestral piece. I use BB quite a lot but not constantly and each time I come back for a session I feel I'm back on the learning curve,
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Re: Lost in Time AurealiusB 1 hour ago Forum: User Showcase
Thanks Ezekiel! Happy to hear you liked my Shut Up and Dance song. Appreciate the positive feedback!
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Re: ♫ Take Today And Make It Mine TuneMonger 5 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Terrific song, Noel! Besides your usual positivity, this had an assertiveness I've not heard in your music before. I can see this being a battle anthem for athletes. Very well done on every level: composition, production, performance. Great work as usual.
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Re: Star vicarn 5 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
What a pretty sound. Like something a child would sleep to. Excellent. Vic
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Re: Give me the country Guitarhacker 6 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Originally Posted by Ronnie Fields
Herb, great production from Kill Branch Studios. Great country song, I can hear that one in my head after listening to it!!
I'm glad you liked it. That it stuck with you is even better. Thanks
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Re: Ain't Got No Use for These Blues Guitarhacker 6 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Very well done.
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Re: Ain't She Sweet (Music Milton Ager, Lyrics Jack Yellen 1927)- Real Vocals and Tracks Guitarhacker 6 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Originally Posted by Brno
This song is composed by Milton Ager, with lyrics by Jack Yellen, published in 1927. It became popular in the first half of the 20th century and typified the Roaring Twenties and became a Tin Pan Alley standard. Both Ager and Yellen were elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In my version I sing and play guitars, tenor banjo and Napolitan mandolin made by Luigi Embergher in 1902. I produced this at my home with Band in a Box and Reaper. ****** Song Summary ************* Key=C , Tempo 120, Length (m:s)=3:34 Style is _BIGEASY.STY (Big Easy New Orleans Old and New) MelodyCustom Synth is 072 - Clarinet, Oberkrainer [SN0322] RealTracks used: RealTracks in style: ~1792:Tuba, DixielandMedium Sw 110 RealTracks in style: 2165:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm NewOrleansSwinginPop Sw 130 RealDrums in style:NewOrleansShuffle^04-a:Kick Shuffle , b:Ride, Shuffle
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Re: Area 51 Guitarhacker 6 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
What a cool song. So well done. You've got a knack for writing cool pop songs
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Re: NEWPORT (with Joliz) rsdean 9 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
David, Thank you so much from both of us and Happy Easter to you as well. Bob
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Re: Sunday's Smooth Jazz Andrew Dee 10 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Smooth is, brew! Andrew
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Re: Right on Time BlueAttitude 10 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Originally Posted by B.D.Thomas
(I love all your remastered versions, because now I have the chance to discover all your fantastic older songs that were released before I joined the forum) A great song with a super mix, tight bass, and tasteful guitar playing. And as always, Chris is the icing on the cake. Enjoyed my listen a lot [Linked Image] PS: thanks for your production notes. It seems we have similar philosophies. I sidechain/duck everything and his little sister, and I’m known for having more buses than audio tracks cool
Not sure how many more of the old songs I'll redo, might see about doing another new one next. As far as the production goes, I'm always trying to get better, and there is always something new to learn. I almost have as much fun with that aspect as doing the actual song wink Thanks for the great review and the support, very much appreciated!
Originally Posted by K-Dub Ya
Hi Dave I definitely agree with others that this is a great remake. Very sultry moody vibe, really enjoyed it. Great stuff. Kind regards
Thanks for the listen and comments!
Originally Posted by BabuMusic
Man, i've been in a lot of recdording situations over the last 58 years, but the best time of all is recording Blue Attitude songs. Y'all can hear how incredibly gifted Dave & Chris are. When i get to play to a track with his guitar and her amazing voice... well, no words --you get it. Love this song. Those lyrics are just... WOW. Love the way that gal thinks and how she puts it into words, then sings them like no one else can.
Chris blew me away the first time I read one of her lyrics, and continues to blow me away. Just a remarkable person! And so are you! wink
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Re: Fade options for holds Matt Finley 16 hours ago Forum: Band-in-a-Box Wishlist Jump to new postsJump to new posts
#3, the loud/quiet/register options, I like it. +1 Your #1 point about the length and/or speed of a fade out is a request that appears here frequently. I've heard of at least one workaround [without using audio editing in BIAB or elsewhere] by reducing the number of beats per bar so volume (or tempo) changes can be made more frequently. I believe the main solution someday is to support non-integer fades and tempos. Absent that, allow changes of volume and tempo more often than a measure at a time, on the beat level. A couple of wild guesses if I may, about #2, the pops afterward, which may deserve its own post: Sometimes I extend the length of a song and use a 'stop' chord like C. to be sure all sound ends. Something you can check if you hear a 'pop' or 'thunk' type sound is, do you have the song looping on? You might be hearing the song begin repeat, with something on the drum track. This has been noticed in the past on a few earlier versions of BIAB. Mute each track and see if you can isolate the offending sound. If it is guitar, then I don't know, but it's not unheard of for an individual RealTrack to have spurious noise on it, and if you report it with an example recording, they can find and fix it. Or it may be none of these things. Can you tell us which version of BIAB you use? Can you post a link to an audio recording of the problem you are hearing?
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Re: Trying to find the right groove Guitarhacker 17 hours ago Forum: Songwriting Jump to new postsJump to new posts
I've got a solid framework so I'm going to see what I can do with BB. Probably gonna start again from scratch. I'll keep everyone posted on my attempts
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Re: Problem with Audio Levels on the Melody Channel Ember - PG Music 18 hours ago Forum: Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Are you working with imported audio, RealTracks, or MIDI in particular on this track? You mentioned audio but as you also mentioned the melody track which is often used for MIDI melodies (either recording or generation) we simply want to be sure what exactly you have loaded onto the melody track. Also, what kind of plugins are you trying to use? You also mentioned channels. Channel 4 is typically the melody within Band-in-a-Box, as shown in the attached screenshot. There's actually a volume adjust for it that I've also indicated for the MIDI channel. By default it is usually set to 90, but you can check under Options | Preferences | Channels to see if you have it currently set lower or try increasing it if volume for MIDI melody is the issue.
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Re: HOW GREAT THOU ART_David Snyder Classical Guitar Guitarhacker 19 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Nicely done David.
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Re: You knew this would be coming, right? DrDan 19 hours ago Forum: Off-Topic Jump to new postsJump to new posts
"New features allow us to make music faster - which is the reason we make music, so we can get it over with."
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Re: [*****] The [*****] [*****] (Before The [*****] [*****] [*****] You) Ezekiel's Storm Yesterday at 11:17 PM Forum: User Showcase
I think there are more f-bombs in this four-minute songs than in The Wolf of Wall Street laugh. Outstanding lyrics, melody, and production. that's all that needs to be said.
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Re: Small Town Boy (2026 RealStyle) Ezekiel's Storm Yesterday at 11:10 PM Forum: User Showcase
Great song. Great production. The slow acoustic groove is perfect. You still have retained a bit of power pop flavor. I love that bass part. I'm a small town boy, too.
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Re: I Got Rhythm (Public Domain) No AI Ezekiel's Storm Yesterday at 11:04 PM Forum: User Showcase
I played trumpet. I was fairly decent at the time.
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Re: ♫ Happiness Is Green Noel96 Yesterday at 10:53 PM Forum: User Showcase
Originally Posted by David Snyder
Really great song and production, Noel. BTW, I have an old Sheila Davis book, too! She's the greatest! Happy Easter.
Hi David. Thanks for jumping in and having a listen. Much appreciate it. I've learnt a lot from Shiela Davis. Her books were amongst the first books that I bought to learn how to write lyrics. All the best, --Noel
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Re: Meanwhile... at a Drake's supermarket somewhere in South Australia... DC Ron Yesterday at 10:05 PM Forum: Best of YouTube Jump to new postsJump to new posts
That was a lot of fun. For Andrew, the YouTube video was posted in 2018. Fun never gets old, even when we do. smile
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