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That is some smooth stuff Thanx Herb.
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J3. my major criticism of loads of interfaces is low mic pre gain which can be a prob with gain hungry dynamic mics. … om Good point. The M•Audio and Neumann interfaces I referred to earlier have more than enough gain for dynamic mics such as the Shure SM7B, Neumann BCM 705 and others that normally require a mic booster or additional preamp. I can even use them with my ribbons in a pinch but that's pushing things a bit.
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Hey, Matt. Thanks for joining in. I don't need rhythm section instruments. I know what a DAW is but I don't really think I've ever used on, unless Garage Band for my iPad is a DAW. I used it to record before but the record function in BB seems to be all I need, really. Just to reiterate, I'm not a music producer or anything fancy. All I'm looking are for better sounding horns (trumpets, trombones, saxes) to help me learn jazz tunes that I can practice with because the midi sounds in BB are cringe. My musical skills are basically just soloing, comping, playing the melody. I came across a file online that has SWAM instruments from 2025, although I have no idea what to do with them.  Cheers, doogiet
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Dave, Thanks so much from both of us. Bob
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Scott Very cool tone Excellent playing Cool video .fj
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I like it. Nice job on the mix
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Mike Halloran, Thanks for your answer MacBook air 2017 Mac OS Montery 1,6 Dual B&B 26 B&B and Libraries in the Apps file No external drive Some songs open in a second, some take 40seconds
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The AI has gotten incredibly good indeed! But the question is, Do you want to write your songs yourself using tools like MasterWriter to assist or do you want AI to write them for you? Personally, I want AI to do more of my work so I have more time to do my art and hobbies. Sounds nice, I suppose. The last thing I want is for AI to help me write songs. I am not driven to produce content and only do so when I have something I like. I have a few hundred songs written over the last fifty-five years; if all I want to do is produce content, I’d start with those. I do use AI a lot. ACE Studio lets me import MusicXML and assign voices that sing the words and music. Saves a lot of time making choral demos for myself and clients. I have a couple of other AI tools for this and that but none are used as part of my creative process. I’ve had in mind a sprawling historic novel for a few decades. I was hoping that I could use AI to help me with the needed research. It’s generated so much misinformation—now we call it AI slop—that AI has proven absolutely useless for the task. Maybe it will get better but, for now, it’s not nearly ready for prime time. An AI tool I would buy in a second is a music scanner that actually works—looks at a piece of printed music and knows the notes, rests, key changes, reads the words and clefs and gets it right. I have SmartScore, MusicToPDF, MuseScore and a few others. Sometimes they save some time but none of them are any damned good with the historical scores I use in my theater and church work. It’s often faster to just re-enter everything in Finale, one note at a time (my left arm is paralyzed from a stroke I suffered 17 years ago). Rearranging twenty pages of Gilbert and Sullivan this weekend for a show I’m conducting in August — looks horrible in SmartScore, dammit. Yeah, if you re-read my comment you'll see I also want no AI writing any parts of my songs! I already feel guilty enough for using BIAB! I've avoided AI for research where facts matter and I can't independently confirm what is presented. However, I had a fantastic recent AI experience that delighted and frightened me about the future! I am a website developer by trade for the past 30 years. And I am a capable coder in many programming languages. Recently I've been hearing chatter about using AI to write code but I've been very skeptical. So a week ago I decided to give it a try. And I was blown away at how fast it was able to deliver a fully functional Wordpress plugin with only about an hour of back and forth "conversation"! I will qualify the results by acknowledging that I had to provide very clear, informative prompts that wouldn't have been possible without my background. And when it made mistakes or generated code that could be a security risk I was able to catch and correct those issues. But it gave me exactly the code I needed in an hour that would have probably taken me a day or two to develop! One caveat to this experience is, because I did NOT go through the specific learning experience for developing that piece of code, I didn't really add much to my personal knowledge. And a year from now that bit of code will be harder to support. With that said, I bookmarked the "conversation" and I can rejoin it at any time to refresh my memory (unless/untill that bit gets erased!)
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Thanks so much guys. JJJ - here is a 20% off coupon for Master Writter, but only for the 1 or 2 year subscriptions. https://bit.ly/masterwriter20 Dave, Ya, I need some tools also. Thanks for the endorsement. Thanks Dan! Hey, do you know if they include both the songwriter edition and the creative writer edition with a single subscription? I have a bucket list item to write a story! I already posted that it’s the same app. You can open MW in either view or both simultaneously per the MasterWriter FAQ. How do I view two versions side by side? To view two versions side by side, open the versions tab, and click the three dots on a version that is not selected, then click “show.” This will present the two versions side by side. I think you are confused! The FAQ is referring to opening 2 versions of a song, NOT the 2 versions of the program. I have asked MasterWriter directly because I am now an owner of the upgrade but based on what I am seeing so far I don't think they allow use of both versions on a single subscription. Google says you can but every method it suggests to do so fails. I think I followed their directions and tutorials exactly and those refer to areas and functions that do not appear to exist. I did stumble on how to integrate the libraries into any word processor and that works. I suspect that Creative Writer version is that with a builtin word processor. That may be better for me. I’m way too busy today but will call them next week and see if I can make better sense of it. I don’t like it when documentation is wrong.
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In my view, this is becoming a tad heavy on the focus on AI . . . but I suppose that's the future of DAWs. Either way, FSP is an awesome tool.
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The style and voice perfectly capture the atmosphere. It doesn't have that romantic, palm-tree vibe! Well done. Laurent
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Superb intro. Good rock music that's a pleasure to listen to. Laurent
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Hi Marty. I get that it sounds in a different space but I'm having a problem getting it into it's proper space. I believe I followed all the reverb rules as I normally do but this time it hasn't worked. Must be something I missed. I may just redo the whole thing. Thanks for your comments. Vic
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A very good blues song, with Janice's superb voice and a top-notch guitar solo. Laurent
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I...Just from a casual listen it sounded like a synth was playing a repetitive riff under the mix. ( was that the guitar?) Yep, those are the guitar fills. What I'm calling "fills" is more like a recurring motif. Each time it's played there are differences in timing, length, approach notes, etc., but it's the same basic motif. One continuous take, no punches. The guitar sound is an overdriven tone favored by Robert Fripp and quite a few others in the pop/rock genre, but it's not used much in country that I've noticed. Thanks for the listen and the tips, Herb!
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Hi Sol! Good vocal and guitar playing - I like these personal versions that you post. This song has a classic sound - it would hit the spot at a dinner-dance I reckon. Did you say how your wife responded to your statement?  Andrew Hi, Sol. Easy going, swinging tune. Pleasant listen - nice work on the vocals and guitar! Thanks.
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Hi Janne You know I’ve got to compare this to Finnish band The Rasmus, don’t you? That driving rhythm is very much their influence, and even vocally. Your vocal is probably more melodic than the Rasmus, they had an edge almost to the point of on a razors edge. But this is great creative, progressive rock. I like anything that pushes boundaries and makes the listener sit up and well, listen! Excellent Janne
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I really wish I'd had a music teacher like that! Those get togethers sound amazing. But yeas, this song sounds like it could be rocked up using BiaB. I look forward to seeing what you can do with it! Surprisingly enough she taught history and drama not music. I learned more about guitar at those gatherings than anywhere else. And yea . . . I'm working on a rocked up version with some cool BiaB styles . . .
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