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Even though it was a bit of a sad song, it was very pleasant to listen to. And the vocal parts are great again as always Thanks Jona Thanks for the listen and supportive comments J&B
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I agree---very Lennonesque. I enjoyed the nostalgic sound and the creative BGVs.
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Geez, Mario, seems there's nothing you can't do with excellence. This sounds FABULOUS to my (non-classically trained) ears. Love the dreamy, expansive soundscape and your (always wonderful) playing. Well done again, Maestro! Thanx Ron. I'm glad that you liked it. Trust me there is a lot of things I can't do, including playing music. I just like to push BiaB and to explore genres that I would have never tried without BiaB. Although BiaB can be very frustrating at times it is worth every soon to be extinct penny I paid for it. It opens a lot of musical doors if one just looks and tries new things.
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Your song is richly textured with an engaging melody. It reminds me much of Silvertwin.
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Is there anyone here using Suno? I can't access SUNO in my country, and I can only open it with a VPN, which is very slow, so I haven't registered yet. But I see a lot of people around me, including on apps like TikTok, creating a lot of SUNO AI music content, and I find it really amazing.
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Chris, funk at its best. Super job blending Suno AI with BiaB. Great arrangement. You picked the perfect RTs and the perfect AI voice for this song. I really enjoyed this song.
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Chelsea has a fantastic voice and did an excellent job on this song. Mariana wrote some great lyrics. Tom, you perfectly put everything together. Loved it
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Fred here are my two cents. PGM ask for us users to list what we wanted to change and/or modify in BiaB. There were a lot of ideas and suggestions thrown at them. If they incorporated just a few of them the programing and debugging may be taking a lot of their time. Note that I don't work for PGM, thus the above may or may not be true. But I hope it is true!
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Good article, Gordon. Don't envy those trying to sort this out in the engineering world. I thought my HP-21 was magic... The engineering world has to go on results, so those that get the results to the finishing line should do well. As the article says, most of that will likely come down to people recognising and understanding the limitations, and doing the proper understanding and test of what gets built. Most of us will already have seen some real howlers from AI and some outright "it made that up" observations. Interesting. I enjoyed the article too, Gordon. That's good. I think it actually covers non-tech as well as tech, though I know not if the writer felt that. I think some of the arts and language subjects are pretty tricky to teach and judge. Some stuff is clear, some stuff is very much "In whose opinion?" . I don't envy that, though from an engineering viewpoint there are also many and varied ways to solve some problems.
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Fantastic song and production, BD! I thought it would crescendo into a grand, sweeping chorus but you went in the opposite direction and it was equally effective, if not more so. Those breathy lines of "Down my personal hell" ripped my heart out. Great job - I'm not usually a fan of this genre, but I love what you do! Thanks a lot, Rob! And double thanks for mentioning the emotions you felt while listening. That's what music is all about 
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Thank you BD, Thank for the listen and kind words. I canât agree more about real life writing the best stories, good or bad. Yeah, getting back to normal mentally can take a while after the physical event, but really mine was minor compared to what other people go through. But it does hammer home, to not take things for granted and live in the moment. Thank you, kind regards
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Thank you! Would you be referring to the "Stems to Include" section? So instead of processing 5 categories at once, isolating it to just the vocal stem would make a cleaner extraction. Am I getting warmer?
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Like most small churches, mine hasnât the funds for an ensemble, so when I play itâs my guitar and BIAB. Over the years Iâve created quite a repertoire of contemporary Christian music backing tracks, usually featuring acoustic guitars, bass, and drums. I play melody (I donât sing) and improvise on a PRS electric guitar through a Fender amp. The BIAB backing track is on a Surface Pro tablet, fed through an audio interface, to a QSC PA speaker. My âsheet musicâ is on an iPad Pro. Both tablets sit on a music stand. The congregation is most appreciative and Iâve received no complaints about using a digital âbackup bandâ. Iâd be interested in othersâ experiences along these lines, their equipment and what songs they play.
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Hi Ray! Both songs are really interesting and in genres that I havenât heard a lot of on the Showcase since Iâve been here. I like how you take the chord progressions to unexpected places, but make the melodies smooth out the changes. I can hear your use of major to minor chord changes (e.g. B - Bm) - always sounds cool. Iâm really looking forward to hearing the finished songs! For Blundertown, I love those âstabbedâ guitar strums, and in style, it is a similar sound to Augie March âThin Captain Crackersâ - in style, not in melody or harmonically. For Psyche, I reckon youâve wonderfully captured an 80s Brit romantic sound with the synth - I could hear whiffs of OMD or maybe even Split Enz True Colours or Blondie Atomic. Lovely stuff. Andrew
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Hi, Dave. This is what you get when you get talented people who are firing on all cylinders together. Well, "virtually get together", I guess.  Excellent write, singing, playing, and arrangement. đ
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Hi, Fred. Cool soundscape - sounds great on my monitors. Vocals are nice and clear. Good song, I enjoyed listening.
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Hi, Sol. Nice song, good vocal.
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Ron, Thank you for all the great compliments. Joliz and I truly appreciate it. Bob
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Congratulations on your new album and good luck on your sales. Thanks a lot, Mario! As for sales, well, um, hm, never mind 
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Funny Funk, I even liked (what I normally do NOT) the trumpet. It makes me smile and tap my toes. Love it ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif)
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Okay! Then the song has succeeded in its missionâŠ.. Jona
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Hi Janne, this is a very lovely song! But still a bit sad (and dreamy) but not fluffy at all. Good use of the instruments, I liked them all!!! The vocals are very nice and the harmonies are well. Really well! Still I have some questions. The lead vocals worked a bit distracting in my head. I think I would have prevered a female vocal with a lower pitch. But that is my personal opinion. The second question is about the build up of the song, or at least in certain parts of the song, like starting with "If I am cursed, I repeat my mistakes and you haven't changed, still causing me ache. We promise each other a brighter start. Good lyrics, but you go low on those parts and -indeed- a bit dreamy. I was wondering if it benefits the song when you go louder/higher on those parts, to create some 'tension'? So, nothing wrong with the song, just some thoughts... Bye, Hans Thanks Hans for your very lovely comment I usually like female voices with a higher pitch, especially now that the singer presents a very young female. Interesting observation about the build up. Because this is a dreamy song, I avoided tension, although I could have made the other parts more like whispered - to highlight those parts you mentioned. This section in the first verse is sad (cursed), but in the second verse it is happier (blessed), but still the melody should be the same, well it is about falling after all, abruptly or gently, so I preferred going low. But I get your point about tension and I try to remember it next time Janne
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This might work - one day- if PG moved to a codebase that is - for example - entirely - or say 90% based on a cross platform C++ library like JUCE or QT.. But as I understand things - the two current platforms supported now - Windows and Mac - still use ad require quite separate codebases - most likely mainly for the standalone GUI - although I'm pretty certain that over the decades much code has - for obvious reasons - become common to both wherever time and resources permit. Were they to have a largely shared codebase - based as much as possible on - say JUCE - then Linux would become far more likely - seems to me anyway ... Jus my two-centeth
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Your words "Sad songs are just so much fun" made me smile, it could be a title of a song, although there is already Elton John's "Sad songs (say so much)" Sad lyrics but with very sharp images of reflections on relationship. "Trapped in eternity/What have we left to prove" - I really like that (you know my latest song...). And rhyming inability and sensitivity I like the acoustic approach, yet I was waiting for an explosion where the walls were truly shredded, but it works this way, with a sad feeling at the end. Enjoyed the vocals, and the harmonies are really smooth. Janne
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... it really helps to bounce the issues here. ...the user base has thousands. Many times, we find solutions that you may not have thought of that will help you to work until PGM works things out. Another reason for posting problems is that often what one of us thinks is a bug is a glitch in our personal setup. That can cause PGM to chase ghosts and waste time hunting a problem that does not exist globally. These are just suggestions. You can choose to ignore or not up to you. Hi Mr Helms, you make good points - I just havent got the time - or frankly - inclination right now - given my mood wrt BIAB and PG - to repost all the material here. But what I will say its my guess that quite a few of the beta testers would very likely be also lurking - nay even commenting - on the BB user forums maybe even this one. And just maybe - if they happened to be here they might just want to visit one of the off limits beta forums - where they will see clearly all of my past bug reports - already pretty well documented - with instructions as to replicability, screen shots by the gazillion etc etc. They are welcome to make comments or requests to me there - as to replicability and I'll be glad to help. But not here. Time I'm afraid simply doesnt allow me to copiously cut and paste all the info I shared there here. And it goes without saying that if any PG developer DOES need more input from me as to replicability - they - or a PG rep - are welcome to just reply to my bug reports and I'll do my utmost to help them. Once I see any of those reports actually getting evidence of having been attended to by PG staff.
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