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I haven't played the game, but I watch the series on Amazon. This has a big 80s sound, which I like. Although the structure may be straightforward, the instrumentation, the vocals, and special effects keep it fresh. Clever lyrics that reference the character and fallout well.
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Sounds delightful. I like the horn answering the flute. Nice little bits throughout. Send some of the rain my way.
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Great song. A lyrical masterpiece. Superb harmony on the pre-chorus and the chorus. Your lead guitar licks are awesome.
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Thank you SO much for all of your help Mike. I appreciate the effort, truly. I upgraded to Sequoia 15.7.7 (probably should have done that earlier, but I HATE upgrading as it always seems that something goes wrong. ;-) ) I do have the allow the use of the microphone checked in the security settings and it has been like that. I even downloaded and reinstalled the program since it was probably transferred over when I got the new computer. It's such a mystery that the main interface works, but not the audio on the style picker. Any other ideas? Everything worked just fine on my laptop. I didn't change anything except the computer.
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@shlind "spend hours in ACW" ??? It would be interesting to hear why this is so time consuming so you would need hours to get a result. My perception is that it's a fairly quick process.
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Thanks David. That’s my usual MO, but with my song only containing nonsense lyrics, I realised I did have a repeating lyric in the chorus - What?. Aided by the video, I’ve realised it is actually commentary on all the ‘slop’ that we see on social media and reactions to it. When many seek 15 minutes of fame or glorify the strange and unexpected, we end up missing true and deep connection rooted in everyday relationships - that’s my interpretation anyway. Andrew
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Hi Izzy! I learned something today about Soundcloud - my 8 listens don’t show up in the ‘first fans’ because I hadn’t hit the ‘like’/add to my library button, but they’re there in the 46 listens total. Your song has a good pedestrian pace which my mind finds somewhat at odds with the concept of a motorcycle ride. I’m not one to know really as I’ve never ridden a motorbike and have no intention of starting. Maybe cruising is like this when you’re in the seat and able to let the passing images germinate some thoughts? I like the line ‘White bones standing in defeat’ - so true when you see them half-buried there. The style reminded me of an Aussie country singer whose name escapes me now, who once did a duet with James Reyne ‘Way out west’. The part of the song I wasn’t sure about was the fiddle solo - it spoke more Americana to me than Aussie outback. That got me thinking - what *would* be an instrument that conjured up Aussie outback? I probably would’ve gone with acoustic guitar solo or maybe a baritone guitar with a touch of tremolo, or maybe even a twang guitar playing double notes with a touch of reverb? Good doubling and harmonies on the vocals as usual for you. A good song, but maybe not the lofty heights of I’ll be your fool IMHO. Andrew
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That’s too bad that happened. I don’t think you’ll find instructions on the website. When I had a similar need, I just called Support and they took care of me more than fairly. In my case, it was Catherine who is a long-time staffer who posts great info here for us. Your drive can’t be very old; just call PG Music Support.
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David, Thanks so much - we both appreciate it! Bob
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Janice, Bud, and everyone who worked on this song: I know absolutely NOTHING about the production side of creating a song, so don't mind me. From your description, I probably mean "reverb" (I told you, I know NOTHING  ), but, regardless, the song is superb "as is", of course. And yes, definitely one of my favs of yours. Carry on ... I so, so want to hear even more.
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TuneMonger (I'm bad with names, and it - much to my immense embarrassment - looks like I have forgotten yours): I'm kinda speechless, to be honest. I didn't expect anything near that incredibly kind and wonderful review when I uploaded the song. I'm so, so glad you enjoyed it. I, too, don't mind glitches so much ... when I was young and learning music as a child, my teachers had to "encourage" me, as it were, to go the "extra mile" ... I still haven't changed at all, I still don't see why everything in music must, sometimes, be so "polished" ... it's not a hospital, for goodness' sake, haha. So thank you for, amongst others, being so kind and understanding with my glitches, too The Ennio Morricone thought is - of course - an honour I don't deserve, but am so grateful that it crossed your mind in relation to a song of mine - thanks As for Suno giving me "wings", musically: whilst I agree that it provides a quite superb finishing touch, and that its quality in doing that has indeed inspired me so much, I simply must strongly acknowledge BIAB. I write EVERYTHING in BIAB (except for the solo melody, of course), and only when I'm happy with what I have written there is when I start mixing, and then putting everything through Suno. Suno provides the polished end product, without a doubt; but the "kitchen work" is done in BIAB. And, without said kitchen work, there would (quite simply) be absolutely no end product to polish. The alternative would be to write everything by hand, something which is out of the question for so many practical reasons, for me. So: THANK YOU, from my heart, to Dr. Gannon and every single person who works at PG Music, bringing us this WONDERFUL piece of software. I haven't paid for its updates for a couple of years, at least, either ... simply because they featured me in their annual prize giveaway. Which company EVER does this? THANKS!!! Thanks again, TuneMonger, for listening and for such an incredibly kind comment ... and please, please remind me of your first name?
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SUPERB! Your best vocal performance, for me ... a really virtuoso take . The song is wonderful, love the harmonic progressions ... and that fiddle!!! Haven't watched the video yet, wanting to get an idea of the sound, purely, first ... LOVED IT! A history lesson wrapped up in a great, great song ... what's not to like? Loved the ending, too (no spoilers ). BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO. One of your best!
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Dan gave a good option. Another choice in BIAB is section text letters (which I know as rehearsal letters). These are limited to a single letter like A, B etc. but I sometimes use letters like I for Intro, T for Tag, and S for Solo since the letters do not have to be in order. Letters can be repeated, so you could have V, V, C for two verses and s chorus. I’m not at a computer but Right-click on the beginning of a bar. The pull-down to select the letter is at the bottom. I use Matt's method and yes it does show those text letters in notation.
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I don’t know #2 or 3. Pretty sure the answer to the end of #1 is No. You get MIDI that is representative of the actual performed audio in a stem. I think you would need a different program to create a style from that.
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The problem is that when you live in a madhouse, you end up becoming mad yourself. Humans have no memory, and the experience of those who came before counts for little. We keep repeating the same mistakes, only with increasingly colossal means. Heading straight for a crash? Just slam on the accelerator! Thanks for the song David. Laurent
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I have personally noticed over the past year that the quality, genius, and breathtaking magisterial eminence of today's music has increased astronomically, as if it has been touched by the feathery fingertip of an archangel. I didn't know why until yesterday, when BD sent me a link to a data set subset that contains an enormous amount of songs that are being used by AI to train music today. It turns out those songs are by me, which have been lurking here the entire time on the band in box songwriters forum. Classic hits like The Scottish Song and Free Fawming which have entertained forum users for hundreds if not thousands of times. Ah, I knew something sounded grandiosely similar. And for this I give praise. God does work in mysterious ways and he has used this horrible technology to save us all. Happy Sunday to everyone.
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Pleasure to listen to this on a Sunday evening Soothing and relaxing are the right words to describe it. I enjoyed the instrument selection which creates a mood with both something old and something modern. Cool chord progression and the acoustic solo guitar sounds very nice playing along it, squeaks didn't bother me. Great mix. Janne
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Mike, I'm not sure if the redesigned part will work or not. I sent them an e-mail, but it's the weekend, so I haven't received an answer yet. Thumper, I sent a couple of photos and an inquiry to Kipp, and they haven't answered yet either. I've also glued a couple of broken pieces with glue that is supposed to be for polycabonite. The instructions say let it cure for 24 hours. That'll be close to 8PM today EDT. Thanks again for all of you for your help.
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Oh, you little rascal you. ANOTHER outstanding fun time, Mario. Man, those drums are wild. Whenever writing a drum track i imagine just what the drummer would look like. i like the T-shirt this one is wearing, and he's showing off his new cymbals that have such good sounds. Dang, that guitar is super, Mario. Great tone and so well played. Love that trumpet!! Of course, your fretless playing is the best. Much enjoyed.
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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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Thanks TuneMonger and Mario!
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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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