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Re: It's Getting Harder to Find the Rock AurealiusB 24 minutes ago Forum: User Showcase
Hi K-Dub Ya, Thank you so much for your positive comments. I really appreciate it! Yes, then and now these lyrics still hold true today. AB
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Iola Tao ~ 100% New Music - I deleted the old version WaoBand 42 minutes ago Forum: User Showcase
I was never really happy with the original version, only posted last February, so I created this new and simpler instrumental, which is over a minute shorter than the former. The shorter time also simplified the video as I didn't have to repeat images other than the original one I also use for the title page. I hadn't intended posting this until much later in the year, but a new vocal song with a trio of female backing vocalists which I hoped to post around the 1st of May has run into some BV snags. Hopefully that'll be ready for posting within a couple of weeks. Electric Piano: Circle Ambient Lap Steel: Jeff Lorber Synth: Jovian Divine Alt Rock Multi ~ uncredited Organ: Giddy Up Country Ballad w Organ: Blair Masters Bass: Country Rock Guitar Solo, Pop Ba ~ Tobin Frank Piano: Pop Ballad Solo Acoustic Piano ~ John Jarvis *Drums: Country Rock Guitar Solo, Pop Ba ~ Brian Fullen 1st & 2nd Rhythm Guitars: Jovian Divine Alt Rock Soloing ~ Mike Durham 1st Guitar Solo: Bricks Indie Rock w Guitar Solo ~ Mike Durham 3rd Rhythm Guitar: Granite Hard Rock w Guitar Solo ~ Craig Northey 4th Rhythm Guitar: Granite Hard Rock w Guitar Solo ~ Murray Atkinson **2nd Guitar Solo: Praise & Worship w/ Power Pop So ~ Dave Cleveland * I mastered the drums stem in Soren AI Mastering (generally a crap program!) which gave them more treble, but I kept them in as after the first drum roll you can actually hear the crash cymbal crash, which is probably the first time I've heard such in BiaB drum samples! ** The 2nd guitar solo is a hybrid of 2 samples. C / 115bpm / 112 bars / 4:04
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Re: Coffee And Kaiserschmarrn (with Joliz) WaoBand 45 minutes ago Forum: User Showcase
Once again superb story-telling and BVs from Joliz. As I commented on the YT post: "Wonderful vibes, vocals, music and video together. Everything a perfect match." Have you actually been to Germany? I was in the Hanover and Hamburg region a couple of times back in the 80s and the first time I saw Hamburg my first words were "Caramba! Civilisation!" as I was so impressed by the layout of the streets and the cycle paths. The Blumegarten park was beautiful - way more so than the big London ones when I lived there - and they had an orchestrated fountain and light show, which was beautiful One early morning on a coach driving down the notorious Reeperbahn a naked female ran out right from one of the clubs, crossed the road and disappeared into another club! Very Hamburg! laugh But I also remember walking by the cafés on banks of the Rheine and I was entranced by how literally blue the water was. … There's definitely a Bob Dean song in there! smile … Tell Joliz, Ewige Blumenkraft!
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Re: Sleepwalking laurent4114 52 minutes ago Forum: User Showcase
It's a very beautiful romantic ballad. You can tell a lot of work went into it. Very well done and pleasant to listen to. Laurent
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Re: Hit the Switch WaoBand 1 hour ago Forum: User Showcase
A very relaxing and lovely instrumental, Scott. It's surprising that there's so much instrumentation in it as it all flow together so well.
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Re: Let 'em Roll WaoBand 1 hour ago Forum: User Showcase
Love the lyrics and the instrumentation! Great song.
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Re: InMusic Purchased Native Instruments rharv 1 hour ago Forum: Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production Jump to new postsJump to new posts
Not just AKAI; M-AUDIO, Alesis, RANE, Denon etc They're buying everything
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Re: BIAB Doesn't See My Bluetooth Headphones rharv 1 hour ago Forum: Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic) Jump to new postsJump to new posts
Where are you trying to assign it? A BT connection is usually a system thing and should show up in Audio Preferences in BB products
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Re: Coalescence WaoBand 2 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Beautiful instrumentation and arrangement. It again reminds me of the better soundtrack music of 60s movies. Your cruise so well out of your comfort zone!
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Re: Some Of These Days (Shelton Brooks 1910) - a jazz standard as my R&B rendition WaoBand 2 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Really nice instrumentation and arrangement. Great solo break. It's surprising that the song is over 100 years old, yet still sounds modern.
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Re: Bury the Past WaoBand 2 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
A very professional sound and great lyrics. Excellent sax solo. I love the tenor.
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Re: I love the street of Paris WaoBand 2 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
1st Class music and I love that sax solo! I wish I could orchestrate the jazz band in BiaB the way that Suno does it, but such is either very difficult or impossible when working with samples.
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Re: Twelve WaoBand 2 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Excellent both cool and warm 12 bar blues instrumental! I really enjoyed the easy-going guitar lead.
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Re: Things are getting harder for AI. ROG 2 hours ago Forum: Songwriting Jump to new postsJump to new posts
I must admit that I haven't had time to watch the video, but.... Maybe they haven't thought this through. I imagine the watermark will be very high frequency, so as not to interfere with the audible track - it should be easy enough to filter this out and re-digitise. For other forms of watermark, I'm guessing that recording to a (lossy) low bitrate MP3 would do the job nicely. Others will surely find more ways. Edit- What ever the watermark, how long will it be before you can download an ai program to strip it out? Also, if a watermark screams out ai, then a piece without a watermark suddenly becomes legitimised, confirmed as real performers, and copyright-capable.
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Re: 2025 User Showcase Awards.... Congratulations to.... WaoBand 2 hours ago Forum: User Showcase
Thank you so much! I echo the gazillions of positive comments written above. I can't think of any other company, ever, which would be so generous!
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Re: Multiriff Improvement/Replacement MarioD 3 hours ago Forum: Band-in-a-Box Wishlist Jump to new postsJump to new posts
Misha, I believe you are talking about leading tones. That is an area that need help IMHO, not just in multiriff and partial regeneration but in style generation. Sometimes BiaB jumps around making different sections sound not as a smooth transition but a little disjointed. YMMV
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Re: Band‑in‑a‑Box 2026 on Windows ARM (Snapdragon X Elite) - real‑world compatibility? TheMaartian 3 hours ago Forum: Band-in-a-Box for Windows Jump to new postsJump to new posts
Bonjour d'Arcachon, Lazy Bird. I have not installed BiaB on my Surface Pro Snapdragon X Elite yet. I have installed the ARM versions of Studio Pro, Bitwig Studio and Reaper and a few x64 FX and VSTi plugins with no problems. Gig Performer (x64) also runs great on it. I use an RME Fireface UCX II on my main Win11 Pro machine, but bought a 4th gen Focusrite 4i4 for my Surface Pro because it has a native multi-client Win11 ARM ASIO driver and it cost me over $1000 less than the RME. laugh No glitches/problems with it. I would rather have used my old PreSonus 1810c, but its driver isn't multi-client and I don't think a native ARM ASIO driver is available yet, even though there's a Win11 ARM version of Studio Pro. The 4i4 is a very good audio interface. My primary complaint is that there's no power switch. You have to unplug the USB-C cable. I don't plan to use the Surface Pro for writing songs, but I guess it's time to install BiaB 2026 Ultra and Tonalic on it for testing purposes.
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Re: Click Track keeps Falling Off the Beat in RB Guitarhacker 5 hours ago Forum: Beginners Forum Jump to new postsJump to new posts
There's a metronome? Personally I never use the metronome. With a drum track and the count-in, I've never felt the need to use a metronome in any of my music recordings. Even when I move it to my DAW, I simply set the tempo in the DAW and rely on the tracks for timing. There are rare exceptions to this. For example if I have a pause for effect in the song and everything comes in at the same time after the pause/hold, timing is critical and with no reference, the metronome in the DAW is essential. But that's pretty rare and I usually only resort to the click out of desperation.
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Re: How to upgrade Guitarhacker 5 hours ago Forum: Beginners Forum Jump to new postsJump to new posts
They have prices for: First time purchase. Upgrade from last year Upgrade from anything 2 years ago or older.
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Re: New to BIAB-How To Create Endings Guitarhacker 5 hours ago Forum: Beginners Forum Jump to new postsJump to new posts
First of all.... Unfold the song using edit.. song form.. unfold. This puts the song into a linear form and eliminates the mysterious repeats. For the endings, as mentioned, you can select the standard 2 or 4 bar endings as they tend to work well for most songs. However, if they don't provide what you specifically want, you can always create your own custom ending easily. How you do it will depend on how you want the song to end, but generally I will add about 8 extra bars to the end to give me room to do what I want and have room for the fade. You can do fancy stuff or even a simple slow down to a hold. I like to call it the "roll your own" approach to endings.
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Re: How to control BAIB with a MIDI keyboard? babymusic 16 hours ago Forum: Band-in-a-Box for Windows Jump to new postsJump to new posts
Originally Posted by Jim Fogle
No, Band-in-a-Box does not accept arrangement commands like intro, variation and ending. Band-in-a-Box can record notes one at a time, chords one at a time and controller commands (CC) like volume, expression and panning. Arranger keyboards like the Yamaha PSR-SX920 can control their sound in real time; you press a key or button and you hear the results while the music is playing. Band-in-a-Box does not create in real time. Either you enter commands into Band-in-a-Box or you playback and listen. You can't do both at the same time. +++ This +++ article explains midi. The article includes a list of controller codes (CC) that Band-in-a-Box accepts.
ok... Looks like I need to keep an eye on these. Yamaha PSR-SX 920 Yamaha Genos 2 KORG Pa5X How to connect to a computer and record from a DAW to the computer's DAW.
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Re: Gig Backing Tracks Bass Thumper 17 hours ago Forum: Recording, Mixing, Performance and Production Jump to new postsJump to new posts
To wrap things up on this thread, we successfully held our 1st gig. The Tascam, laptop, backing tracks, keyboard and other equipment all worked fine. And I did bring a portable DAP as a backup which was not needed. The laptop and DAW works so well, including synced chord display that I'm thinking that Mario's idea of a backup laptop might be the way to go if we continue to gig. As a matter of fact, when we meet to practice in my jam room I'm now using the laptop/interface/DAW method to play stem-separated elements of our chosen backing tracks; most often just the drums. And the icing on the cake is that we're instantly setup to record our practice sessions so they can be reviewed afterwards and emailed to potential bandmates. Compared to 40 years ago, things are so much easier today. Thanks go to everyone that supplied ideas.
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Re: EVAbeat Melody Sauce 3 Crossgrade from Scaler 3 MarioD 18 hours ago Forum: Off-Topic Jump to new postsJump to new posts
FWIW I haven't found a MIDI melody and chord program that I would purchase. Most are aimed at hip hop, trap, etc genres. I haven't heard one yet do a complete song that I liked. I have found the best is BiaB's melodist and/or soloist. Again it will not give me a complete song but I always find a phrase or two that I can turn into a song. You might want to try that.
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Re: ♫ Take Today And Make It Mine Ezekiel's Storm Yesterday at 11:47 PM Forum: User Showcase
This songs stay with you after it stops playing. The bridge is killer and bold.Fantastic build. Love your instrumentation choices.
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Re: Can't input chords using midi keyboard Thunder Yesterday at 10:15 PM Forum: Band-in-a-Box for Macintosh Jump to new postsJump to new posts
Just tried that and it didn't work. Bob
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