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Interested in what you went with if you don't mind sharing. If still looking, I can give a few lists that range from barebones but excellent to really-people pay this kind of money? with good reasons for my recommendations. My VO setups have changed over the decades but the current one is priced on the low side of midrange and I am very happy with it.

I've attached two screenshots showing the problem. As I was replying I realized that I could enlarge the window of the DAW plugin and that resolved the problem with the Ci chords and they now show correctly as C7. It also resolved the problem with the Fmaj7 chords being displayed as F MAJi. Take a look at the screenshot because I think a lot of people might not realize that it is a window sizing issue. Notice, for instance, that the Db7#11 chord in bar 23 appears as Db7#1i, which is super confusing. The F/\7 was just my attempt to get the forum software to show it the same as the standalone BiaB version. It now shows as Fmaj7 in the plugin version after I made the window larger. Fwiw, I never enter chords in the DAW. I use standalone BiaB every day when I'm practicing. Then I eventually switch over to Luna, and load the same song into the DAW plugin. At that point, it is usually very jarring to see everything in both a different font and notation. My main genre is jazz so I'm using the chords for the purposes of improvising. [ Of course, I aspire to be a real musician and simply "hear the chords". But that is probably 30-40 years away still, so for now I'm left having to read the chords.]

Dear Beth, Thank you so much for your beautiful words. Your kindness and the way you felt the song means the world to me—it’s exactly why I create. I’m grateful you let the music reach you. With heartfelt thanks, Izzy

TL;DR: There's no "one stop shop" for making this happen. It can be done with the help of AI, but it's not simple and will require a lot of work on your part to do it right. First of all, translation of a song into another language requires an understanding of the meaning of the words, but of the melody as well. Consider: This is a song (4) boom boom (2) I sing it wrong (4) zoom zoom (2) But sing along! (4) Using Google Translate to translate it to Spanish, I get: Esta es una canción (7) bum bum (2) no la cantes mal (5) zoom zoom (2) ¡pero canta (4)! I've placed the syllable count after each line to show that the translated version has a different number of syllables than the original. That means the melody needs to be altered to fit the new syllable count. You'll also note this "raw" translation doesn't keep the same rhyme scheme, as canción, mal and canta don't rhyme. Google Gemini is "smart" enough to keep the rhyme scheme: Esta es una canción (7) bum, bum (2) La canto sin ton (5) zum, zum (2) ¡Sigue mi son! (4) It can be guided to try to match the syllable count: Esta canción (4) bum bum (2) Canto sin ton (4) zum zum (2) ¡Si-gue mi son! (4) Although obviously the translation isn't literal, as "I sing it wrong" doesn't necessarily mean "I sing off-key": This song boom boom I sing off-key zoom zoom Follow my rhythm! This is why translation is the hardest bit - you'll need to have something that captures the meaning of the lyric, even if it's not a literal translation. After telling Gemini I wanted the lyric to mean "incorrectly" instead of "off-key", Gemini offers this translation after a lot of thought: Es un cantar bum bum Lo canto mal zum zum ¡Ven a cantar! Gemini offered the following notes: But you can see that it's rhymed "cantar" with "cantar". All of which is to say that translating while keeping the rhyme scheme and syllable count isn't trivial, but will require interaction to verify the correctness of the result. It's an iterative process, and is likely to exhaust what you can do free with an AI pretty quickly. You'll likely have to as AI to find phrases that have similar meaning in the target language, and try using them instead of the original lyric. Once you have a translation, you then need to get it sung in the new language. Perhaps the simplest way to do this is to create a "cover" in Suno. This requires that Suno doesn't see this as a copyright song. Of course, you're doing this with a song you've got full rights to. Once you do that, you type new lyrics into Suno, and it will create "cover" the song with the new lyrics. However, it's going to us a different voice instead of the original when creating the "cover". You'll need to describe the voice of the singer to Suno so that the voice it uses will be similar in character to the original singer. So you'll end up with song singing the new lyrics that you've translated into your target language. You'll then need to extract the vocal stems of the song from Suno, and convert the vocal into the original singer's voice (but in the new language). Now would be a good time to mention that harmony vocals will need to be done in a separate pass! There are tools like RVC, but Controlla Voice seems to be the best option at the moment. You'll need to upload audio to train it with your singer's voice. The training material should match the style of the target song. For example, if you train using soft vocals and try to apply it to a hard rock song, it's not going to work. Once that's done, you can upload the vocal stem from Suno into Controlla Voice (or some similar tool) and it will apply your original singer's voice to it. It will be in the new language, in the style and performance of the Suno voice, but with your singer's timbre applied. If you've done all this work, you'll also want a native speaker to listen to the song (especially the Suno version) to make sure it sounds right. Different language have different rhythmic rules, and what sounds good in one language may sound terrible in another. Suno is pretty good at automatically making these adjustments, though. To summarize, it's a multi-step process, using different tools, and a lot of work is required for it to turn out well: 1. You'll need to translate the song into the new language. If you aren't fluent in that language, you could use an AI program like Google Gemini to perform the translation, using Google Translate to make sure the translation close to the intended meaning. This would be an interactive process. 2. You'll then need to covert the vocal into the new language. You can do this with a tool like Suno, where you load the song, and then create a "cover", giving it the new lyrics. You'll then need to extract the vocal stems to get the isolated vocal. 3. You'll then need to convert the Suno vocal back to your singer's voice, in the target language. You can use a tool like Controlla Voice or some other RVC tool that's been trained with samples of your singer's own voice. It will apply your singer's voice while keeping the native accent of the Suno vocal. Of course, this isn't how the pros do it. For the Spanish version of "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree" done in Brenda Lee's voice, the producers hired a native Spanish singer, and then used an RVC-like tool trained using Brenda Lee's voice to covert the vocals. That's the best way, as the singer could serve as another set of eyes to make sure the translation made sense. But you'd have to make sure they'd know they're vocals would be substituted with someone else's voice!

Hello Andrew, Just wanted to place this here as a reminder for the re-implementation of the "Edit Phrases and Loops" button functionality as noted in that thread. Thanks. Regards, Shawn

You can do the modifications on the style, then go into File - Style Maker - Edit The Current Style - Save As and then it becomes a User Style. You can then change the style in your songs to the new one and be done with it. I have done it about 5 times in the past in order to add different RT's to the style. I do a Save As so I don't over write the factory supplied style. Most of the bluegrass songs I have point to one I made up to add a reso guitar to the existing mix.

Thank you and Happy New Year to you and yours! J&B

Happy New Year to you Carl! Just listening to your track as I look out the window onto a new year’s morning and being grateful. Your piece provides a calm and satisfied feeling to accompany my reflections. All the best. Andrew

Thank you Mario...I was half asleep at the wheel. When I clicked F5 I was only getting a minimized popup window. Then Catherine from PG woke me up and I maximized the window in order to see it better and guess what?...all the "missing" option were buried in there. Thank you for jumping in.

This is the reality for many guitarist:

Mange tak i lige måde. Man må sige, at de har oppet sig denne gang med AI-delen af biab 2026.

Thanks Ray for the feedback. I'm not a Suno expert; I've only been using it for a few weeks. I uploaded the audio version I made with BIAB, where the vocals and lyrics were done by Solaria from Syntesizer V. I put my lyrics in the lyrics section, and for the style, I requested a pop ballad with a singer who has a slightly angelic quality. He gave me two versions, and I kept the one I liked best. The vocalizations were created without my request, and I had to remove two or three notes from the vocals that he had modified because they were out of harmony. Laurent

A funny song you made, Janne! I can only agree with Brian about this kind of Christmas songs. What a story about the history too! And all this for a song of about 1,5 minutes ;-) Have a nice New Years eve! Hans

Hi Ron, I can only agree with everyone here. A sad, yet beautiful song. Serene in a way. Your vocals shine so good here , also the bgv. Very well done! Wishing you a wonderful New Year's Eve! Preferably with Marie... Hans

Thanks, Shigeki, I appreciate it! TB

Hi Scott, An impressive, dark song, with outstanding vocals! And I was also impressed by the sound of the song. I couldn't figure out what instrument made that dark sound, but after reading the comments here, it was a piano, or even a drone. Whatever, a very good song! A happy new year's eve, Scott Hans

Noel, Thanks. You are absolutely right - mystery solved! Allan

Hi Bob, Man, you have had a heck of a year! Just one great song after another and this is no exception. "The future’s just noise Spin the record again Give a finger to the silence When the music ends" Wow! Looking forward to hearing what you and Joliz come up with next year

I've had a similar problem many times un the past, suddenly, preview chords atopped working for no apparent reason. RTFS or changing the midi / drivers used to solve the problem in most (not all) the cases. It was really annoying.

Audio Track - Dr Dan - Noel .... thanks for replies, it is working now. The file may surely be corrupted with all my tinkering. Thanks Noel ! Forgot I had disabled some tracks in the “Save Song with Patches & Harmony” dialog.

Hi Andrew, A bit late to the party, but better late than never! Good song, sort of a 60s pop vibe happening. I like the changes and the way it builds. Strong chorus! Best to you for 2026!

Bonjour, A priori aucun autre utilisateur n'a signalé ce problème .... Peux-tu donner un peu + d'infos ? Daniel

NICE ... if you go to various tech forums still Loads of people using junk pc... Om

Good one Hans. I wasn't all that keen on the oohs of V1 but they fitted better in V2.

A couple of photos. The dogs were in the known cemetery doing some training after the suspected cemetery search. The field with the orange and pink flagging is where they thought the slave cemetery was located. Orange flags are where the ground penetrating radar showed anomalies 2ft down and each pink flagging tape was an individual dog's indication. The digging is on the slave cemetery. They pulled back 12" of topsoil to see where the hardpan was disturbed. They confirmed that they have found the cemetery where slaves are buried.