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Charlie. While this is good to know...You are offering yet another workaround, without admitting there is a problem. Very expected. What you offered is a complete style reload not reverting to original project. I have seen many things going south, especially when style previously loaded had special tracks, like audio, silence., frozen, different time signatures and other type of tracks. Undo needs to Undo last action - whatever steps it took to get there. Period. That would be a first step to fix. Second, as I've mentioned possibility to take snapshot(s) of project which would include all customization, loaded synths, bar, midi, settings, partial regens, volume automations etc. I usually end up with 5-10 project copies, mainly because I can't rely on undo.
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If I want to have melody harmony, on it's own without the melody itself, there is now way to do it (well not that I can see) If I harmonise then this harmony will be availble as the song plays but I don't know if this is actually stored anywhere. To materilais this harmony requires my to have it on the Melody track.
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This song is composed by Milton Ager, with lyrics by Jack Yellen, published in 1927. It became popular in the first half of the 20th century and typified the Roaring Twenties and became a Tin Pan Alley standard. Both Ager and Yellen were elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In my version I sing and play guitars, tenor banjo and Napolitan mandolin made by Luigi Embergher in 1902. I produced this at my home with Band in a Box and Reaper. ****** Song Summary ************* Key=C , Tempo 120, Length (m:s)=3:34 Style is _BIGEASY.STY (Big Easy New Orleans Old and New) MelodyCustom Synth is 072 - Clarinet, Oberkrainer [SN0322] RealTracks used: RealTracks in style: ~1792:Tuba, DixielandMedium Sw 110 RealTracks in style: 2165:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm NewOrleansSwinginPop Sw 130 RealDrums in style:NewOrleansShuffle^04-a:Kick Shuffle , b:Ride, Shuffle
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David, Thank you so much from both of us and Happy Easter to you as well. Bob
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Noel, The Power Rock Ballad is back! Love the hard-hitting rhythm and excellent drums. That is a GREAT mix! Very inspirational lyrics and you selected the right voice to deliver them. Loved it all! Bob
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Hi Ron! Thank you for your Ultra Fidelity Offering! And thank you for removing the country from that style - supported by your harmonies, it sounded more like something The Rembrandts would produce - and good! I loved those shots in the middle section as well. Songs about aliens, UFOs and conspiracies is a very untapped theme I reckon! Andrew
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Hi Scott! Great guitar tone, and I really enjoyed those key changes. Andrew
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Sounds good, Bob! Hard to come up with an original blues lyric without it sounding cliched, but you pulled it off. Harp sounds good to me, nice playing. I actually have no problem with the vocal, fit the song well. Good one, enjoyed!
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(I love all your remastered versions, because now I have the chance to discover all your fantastic older songs that were released before I joined the forum) A great song with a super mix, tight bass, and tasteful guitar playing. And as always, Chris is the icing on the cake. Enjoyed my listen a lot ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif) PS: thanks for your production notes. It seems we have similar philosophies. I sidechain/duck everything and his little sister, and I’m known for having more buses than audio tracks  Not sure how many more of the old songs I'll redo, might see about doing another new one next. As far as the production goes, I'm always trying to get better, and there is always something new to learn. I almost have as much fun with that aspect as doing the actual song  Thanks for the great review and the support, very much appreciated! Hi Dave I definitely agree with others that this is a great remake. Very sultry moody vibe, really enjoyed it. Great stuff. Kind regards Thanks for the listen and comments! Man, i've been in a lot of recdording situations over the last 58 years, but the best time of all is recording Blue Attitude songs. Y'all can hear how incredibly gifted Dave & Chris are. When i get to play to a track with his guitar and her amazing voice... well, no words --you get it. Love this song. Those lyrics are just... WOW. Love the way that gal thinks and how she puts it into words, then sings them like no one else can. Chris blew me away the first time I read one of her lyrics, and continues to blow me away. Just a remarkable person! And so are you!
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#3, the loud/quiet/register options, I like it. +1 Your #1 point about the length and/or speed of a fade out is a request that appears here frequently. I've heard of at least one workaround [without using audio editing in BIAB or elsewhere] by reducing the number of beats per bar so volume (or tempo) changes can be made more frequently. I believe the main solution someday is to support non-integer fades and tempos. Absent that, allow changes of volume and tempo more often than a measure at a time, on the beat level. A couple of wild guesses if I may, about #2, the pops afterward, which may deserve its own post: Sometimes I extend the length of a song and use a 'stop' chord like C. to be sure all sound ends. Something you can check if you hear a 'pop' or 'thunk' type sound is, do you have the song looping on? You might be hearing the song begin repeat, with something on the drum track. This has been noticed in the past on a few earlier versions of BIAB. Mute each track and see if you can isolate the offending sound. If it is guitar, then I don't know, but it's not unheard of for an individual RealTrack to have spurious noise on it, and if you report it with an example recording, they can find and fix it. Or it may be none of these things. Can you tell us which version of BIAB you use? Can you post a link to an audio recording of the problem you are hearing?
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I've got a solid framework so I'm going to see what I can do with BB. Probably gonna start again from scratch. I'll keep everyone posted on my attempts
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Are you working with imported audio, RealTracks, or MIDI in particular on this track? You mentioned audio but as you also mentioned the melody track which is often used for MIDI melodies (either recording or generation) we simply want to be sure what exactly you have loaded onto the melody track. Also, what kind of plugins are you trying to use? You also mentioned channels. Channel 4 is typically the melody within Band-in-a-Box, as shown in the attached screenshot. There's actually a volume adjust for it that I've also indicated for the MIDI channel. By default it is usually set to 90, but you can check under Options | Preferences | Channels to see if you have it currently set lower or try increasing it if volume for MIDI melody is the issue.
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"New features allow us to make music faster - which is the reason we make music, so we can get it over with."
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Really great country sound, Herb. Love those guitars and the guitar sound. Your vocals sound really good on this one as well. Great job all around and happy Easter.
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Shut Up and Dance - Good, fun lyrics. The song has a 60's surf and an 80s new wave feel, which sounds mighty good to me.
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I think there are more f-bombs in this four-minute songs than in The Wolf of Wall Street  . Outstanding lyrics, melody, and production. that's all that needs to be said.
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Great song. Great production. The slow acoustic groove is perfect. You still have retained a bit of power pop flavor. I love that bass part. I'm a small town boy, too.
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I played trumpet. I was fairly decent at the time.
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Really great song and production, Noel. BTW, I have an old Sheila Davis book, too! She's the greatest! Happy Easter. Hi David. Thanks for jumping in and having a listen. Much appreciate it. I've learnt a lot from Shiela Davis. Her books were amongst the first books that I bought to learn how to write lyrics. All the best, --Noel
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That was a lot of fun. For Andrew, the YouTube video was posted in 2018. Fun never gets old, even when we do. 
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But I’m only subscribed to v7.99! Dang!  Andrew
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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
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I am new to Band in a Box. I've listened to several videos for beginners, but I'm having trouble setting up the form for my first song (basically a simple 12-bar blues song). When I clicked on Song Form and selected to generate an intro, I indicated I wanted a four bar intro, it generated an automatic intro; however, I expected to see a repeat mark at bar five and I am not seeing a repeat mark. I basically want to create a 12 bar blues song with a four bar intro. I want it to play five choruses, and then I want to write out the rest of the song, which is 20 bars after 5 choruses are played. I tried to select a Song Form and fill in the information for each of the sections but when I selected Generate Form, I got a message that says "there is no form string (e.g. AABAC) or no valid sections defined. Unable to generate a song form." Also, for the tag that I'm trying to create, I was hoping to enter one chord per 8th note in one bar at the very end, but it seems as though I can only enter one chord per quarter note. Is that the case? Can anyone refer me to a video or videos that will address these issues that I'm having?
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