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I dunno, I turn my Audio Interface off, but put computer to sleep. I sometimes get woken up at 3AM and have to get to work quick (emergency), so having the computer fire right up works for me. / I am so looking forward to retirement
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There's the 'individual' SongPicker, which you can open by shift-clicking the SongPicker button (the button that has an image of two eighth notes, to the left of the song title), and there's the SongPicker that's part of the 'MultiPicker' dialog, which you can open by ctrl-clicking the button. By default a click without a modifier key will open the MultiPicker, unless you've changed the default. The MultiPicker can also be opened several other ways. One way is by clicking (or ctrl+clicking) the Style button (the button directly below the SongPicker button). You can then click on the SongPicker tab in the MultiPicker dialog. -See if there is a difference opening the individual SongPicker vs. MultiPicker SongPicker. -Check if you can open it if the MultiPicker has already been opened, by switching from another tab like Styles or RealTracks. -It may be that there is some kind of error trying to open the folder you have set as the home folder (default is /Applications/Band-in-a-Box/MySongs). If there is no way for you to open the SongPicker, you could reset it by closing the program and renaming the file intrface.bbm in the Band-in-a-Box/Preferences folder. You could rename it intrface_old.bbm as a backup. This would return many program settings to defaults. Let us know what you find.
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Harumph. Nobody talks about Area 49 anymore. This is great, ROn. I love those lyrics. Kudos to R.W. Davis --and you for recognizing that talent. Speaking of talent... Terrific write. I know exactly what it's about. What a cool melody. Do you write the music AFTER having the lyrics? Either way, what a great match. THANKS, Marty! I write the music from his finished lyrics and don't change anything he's written. Well, much.  Sometimes I'll recycle a line or verse or chorus or song title lyric when it serves the song. Sometimes I'll accidentally mis-sing a lyric. I always hear about THAT. Ouch! Ron, what an outstanding song. Your vocal was spot on. Super backing band and mix. The lyrics took it over the top for me. Loved it PS - if "All the locks have been broken All the passcodes have been spoken" is actually true expect the F.B.I, C.I.A, and the G.A.Y men to come knocking on your door. Thank you, Mario! Crazy lyrics for sure, but much fun.
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BD, Amazing songwriting. Lyric and Melody. Killer production. Excellent mix. Incredible work on the video. Mesmerizing. Powerful. fj Powerful - that’s exactly what I wanted to convey. Thank you for listening and your comment, Floyd. Much appreciated ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif)
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At first, I had absolutely no idea what your song was about. But Marty's comment on YouTube helped me out: It's written from the bird's perspective. That's a pretty cool and unusual idea. I wonder what the birds thought when you looked up at them. You're giving me ideas A cool (and, for me, inspiring) song. Enjoyed my listen ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/markup_panel/default/smiley.gif)
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Regarding Mac. I don't know if he is still with us, but I do know he was in 2020. I had reached out in early Jamuary 2020 to his brother, Marshall McDonald, to see what was going on (Marshall is a professional jazz sax player out of New York, although he said gigs were very hard to come by.. My initial exchange with him went as follows: Me (01/07/2020): Greetings! My name is John Ford and you don't know me from Adam. I am a longtime participant in the PGMusic Band-in-a-Box online forum for which your brother Clark (who went by the moniker "Mac" many years ago), just kind of disappeared. There have been folks (including myself) worried about him for many years now. I've tried calling the number at which I previously spoke with him, but it just rings . I remember him posting about his brother Marshall and your accomplishments, so I am reaching out on your web site. While I never met him in person, I spoke with him on the phone several times and we had multiple interchanges about music on the forum and on the phone. Myself, and others, would just like to know he's alright, still playing keyboards and trumpet (hopefully), and doing what he loves. He was a treasure of knowledge on the forum, and we have long been concerned about him. I remember he went through a bout of some health issues. I look forward to hearing from you. Marshall (01/07/2020): Thanks for reaching out, I remember well his work at BIAB and i still use the program to practice although I have not updated in some time! Music is a challenging career. To say the least and has gotten even worse. Yes Actually, he did go through some very serious health issues, maybe we will tell you about them but he is still with us and his brilliant mind, maybe getting older, is still brilliant. Since he sometimes remains private I will forward your email onto him and I hope he reaches out to you. Let me know how it goes. Me (01/08/2020 - my birthday, hey!): Thank you for your response, Marshall. Mac may be gone from the BIAB forum, but not forgotten. I am so glad he is still with us. His knowledge of things musical and electronic and, well most things, have been helpful to me (and many others). I remember he provided me some great feedback on a song I posted that I took to heart. I do hope I hear from him. There are folks that still miss his wit and insight. Marshall (01/17/2020): Did you hear from him? Me (01/17/2020): Unfortunately, not yet. Thank you so much for the follow up. But I'm an optimist. I will tell you there are lots of folks with fond memories of him and would love to hear from him, even just to drop in and say "Hi".And this isn't just an online thing. In the past several years, a lot of folks on the forum have actually met and socialized in person, all around the love for music. I keep my hopes alive. Me (01/23/2020): Have not heard from your brother, yet, but just glad he's still kicking and hopefully doing what he loves. Marshall (01/23/2020): He sticks to himself a lot these days. He got your message. After that, we shared emails back and forth about life, music, and BIAB over the next several months. I never did hear from Mac, he last logged in to the forum on 04/08/14 at 09:50 AM.
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Simple, raw and good old-fashioned rock. I like the stripped-down arrangement, with only the elements the song needs and gives the singer plenty of room to rock. Cool stuff
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As always, I’m fascinated by the story and the way you tell it, Bob. I like the contrast between the verses, which have more of a singer-songwriter feel, and the almost gospel-like prayer in the chorus, which comes across especially clearly thanks to Joliz’s backing vocals. A really good song
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Hi Mario, One Thousand and One Nights? You? Although, I can certainly imagine you, riding a camel through the desert with a mini-piano while composing this song. I have ridden camels myself a few times in various deserts, but I never managed to compose a song about it. But look at you. Not even sitting on that camel, and yet making an Arabic-sounding song! But is it really Arabic, or Iranian...? (lame joke) You are very creative! This track proves that once again. How did you come up with this? I’ve tried a few of these Arabic loops in BiaB, but so far I haven't managed to turn them into a whole song. But what you’ve done is very beautiful. I admit, I don't fall in love with these sounds, but some exotic sounds are really nice to incorporate into a track. Just like the percussion... someday... Mario, you’ve done a really good job with this again. Hats off! Hans
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This is an answer to a different question, but may be useful to know. BiaB can import both MIDI and MusicXML, to if you have those from elsewhere, like from Score Cloud or Sibelius, you may well save yourself siome time. There's a bit of learning to get bars aligned and sometimes to route channels to tracks, but it's a useful feature.
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Thanks, Herb, appreciated! If you feel like writing like this again, sometime, all I can say is: go for it!!! I know it'll sound great, so ... don't let life stop you from writing music, without music (as Nietzsche wrote), life would be a mistake
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Matthey. Hmmmm, any relation? 
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A belated Happy birthday Mario with many more to come. Glad to hear you had a great day.
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I really enjoyed the portraying of your personal paradise by words and music, it is very important to tell about nature (and for the love of it) we still have and which has not yet been destroyed by housing, traffic or industry. "Wind singing through the leaves/And this old heart beats steady where the sky and forest meet." lovely poetry. Great country band, the solo sounds especially nice, very good mix and your vocal is very expressive. Janne
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What a nice tune for the day of rest, no hurry, just calming afternoon while watching slowly transforming cloud shapes at sunset. The instrumentation is superb Mario quality, that ethereal piano sounds very sweet and smooth. The sax has very nice nostalgic tone. Your guitar playing is masterful. Magical chord progression. Jazz that is easy to receive, I just want to immerse myself in the carefree world of your music. Janne
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Wow, you have turned the old melody into your own unique style and it works beautifully, magic! Enjoyable playing and lovely guitar tones, the stars twinkle in different colors. Relaxing backing band. Janne
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"NO PAYMENTS, JUST PAVEMENT FOR ME SO LONG BABY" you surely know the spicy sauce of the blues, old standards meet Merritt high standard. Peter knows how to roast the strings of his guitar, amazing work! Bud takes care of the high quality of mixing the ingredients and Janice serves the meal with her charming self-confience - every time, not just once in a blue moon. Blues may not be my genre, but Janice & Bud & Peter is Janne
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In 3/4, adding real tracks doesn't work because they play too fast. I haven't seen or figured out a way to do "cut time" in 3/4, if that would even work if it was possible to do. In 6/8 the styles are just plain "wrong". I have had some success by running the RTs at half-time. I've done this too occasionally with pretty good results
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I owned the Studio Project VTB1 up til it died over a year or two ago - it is now in my dead and unused equipment closet. I had it for about 5 - 10 years. ... and gifts on loan from God. They're built like tanks! What died? I had a power supply die (replaced), but otherwise it's been a great little unit. I just checked, it is no longer in the closet. I must have purged it to trash over the past year. I have been doing a lot of that lately. Fact is I do believe I purchased both the pre-amp and mic based on your recommendation so many years back. The combo worked well for maybe a decade or more, but as I said the preamp just quit on me one day. I was a pleasently surprised it could be so easily replaced by gear I already had with my MOTU. So I never looked back or thought about replacing the pre-amp. Far fewer adjustments available, but I never really learned how to optimize the VTB1 so it just was bit over complicated for me. The MOTU I just turn on and adjust gain.
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Hi Mario, Laurent, David, Janice and Bud and Scott, Thanks for your very nice comments and waitings for my replies... I think I nearly every time come with excuses, but you know? I must be too busy every day and before you know it's sleeping time. Life is too short for busy people... Or I can't organize very well... Hans, first you sent to the dictionary. Second you had me from the first measure. Super song with a great vocal, backing band, and mix. I forgot to mention those outstanding lyrics. IMHO this is your best to date. Loved it Hi Mario, my best one so far!!! It seems like you keep saying that to me lately. But I like that you say it. It gives me the feeling that I'm heading in the right direction. Thanks! This is a song that raises many questions and sounds very good. Laurent Hello Laurent, the way you say this sounds almost poetic... Thanks! Great song Hans! It kind of reminds me of the guy who wrote Year of the Cat. Your voice sounds very similar in places! Year of the Cat Hi David, well that sound more than ok for me. I liked that songs a lot (still!), although my favorites were the BeeGees. Better harmonies. Thanks for that compliment, because his voice is much higher than mine now, but you haven't noticed that ;-) You are channeling John Lennon again for us here. 😊. And that is wonderful. We loved the lyrics and could relate as life does seem more precious the older we get. You sound great, and the band supports you well. Your excellent use of BiaB tracks is a showcase within the User Showcase! We enjoyed the video, especially the sweet dog and cat scene and the chickadee at the ending. Great remake! J&B How sweet of you! Yes, and of course I have to do my very best not to let John be forgotten. Judging by your reaction, I’ve succeeded again! This is indeed the kind of writing you start writing as you get older. Then the future isn't the most important thing, but the memories are. And thanks for that BiaB compliment. I’ve never looked at it that way. Though little things like the dog, cat, and bird. Mine is just like a zoo too. Not always to my wife's delight... Very pretty song Hans. Cool chord progressions. Super vocal and lyric. Excellent mix. Well done Hi Scott! You are always present with my songs. Thanks for that. And thanks also for your kind compliments on this song! I can sleep well now, I can assure you!
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Hi Shigeki, When starting my listen to your song, my heart stood still (for a nano second). My Chinese isn't what it was. Heartbroken! A nice title for this wonderful song. Great vocals and also great pianoplay, or in Chinese: 人聲和鋼琴演奏都很出色。 This is truly a lovely waltz. And you can't often say that about this genre. Were some of the other instruments from BiaB, or did you use them from your DAW? I do that regularly. Very well done! Hans
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Hi Noel, What a surprise! At first, I didn't read that you had used AI vocals, so I was expecting a beautiful song with your singing. And then I had to start over, checking all the sources and your post on the forum again. And now I'm listening to it for the third, uh, fifth time. Just like Ray, I'm not such a fan of AI vocals, but you chose the right vocals for this very good song. I think it's great in every way; the song/melody is very good/strong. I also like the chord progressions and the lyrics! The choruses are so beautiful; that part "Watch me, Just watch me, And see me fly" is great to sing along to. I can do that now, and the other parts too! Noel, great song. I wish you could sing it like that too. Are you thinking about giving it a try sometime? Hans
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Hi Andrew, these songs remind me of English pop songs from the 70s. I can't remember the names of the bands or singers anymore, only the feelings I had about them. They were special, their stories too, and the vocals were typical of that style. And you imitate that in an amazing way! Very well done, the lyrics too! You either love it or you hate it! Well, I love it... right now ❤ Hans
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OK, here's what I did. Fairly straight-forward once one knows. I set the song to two choruses and unfolded to get a one-chorus song of a double-chorus length. I did copy-special from...to create two new double choruses, inserting the bars and transposing up each new chorus by two semitones. I then did a Transpose from...to to transpose the third chorus up a further semitone. I set the chorus start in the main control to the second chorus, and I set the length as that of the second chorus, which greys out the third chorus. I set the chorus repeats to a multiple. I used Edit->Song form to set the third chorus as a tag. I removed the turnaround from the end of the tag and tidied the song ending. That seems to have worked out pretty well.
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Thanks Bob, K-Dub Ya, TuneMonger, B.D.Thomas for the comments. Laurent
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