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Hey, Herb. You craft your melodies very well: easy to follow, easy to remember, and your lyrics are universal yet sound fresh. Your relationships, personal, spiritual, and the countryside you live in, sounds genuinely personal and conversational that puts the heart into your songs. Your musicianship and use of Band in a Box outstanding. I also listened to "Give Me the Country Please," also very well crafted and easy to relate to, as I've lived in cities and am in a half-city half-rural area...lots of hills, trees, at the edge of a city of 58,000, but far more peaceful than Phoenix! Anyway, I admire how you make your music which is very well done. John
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Sounds really good. Would be interested in the mixing & mastering process and what audio effects plugins are used, and how AI is utilized as well. Hi all, If anyone is curious, I am happy to share the tools I have been using and how they fit into my workflow. Joanne Hi Jeff Thanks for the interest. In summary 1. I recorded my original song using the appropriate tempo, key and Band-in-a-box style and exported to MP3 2. Imported the MP3 into Suno (Pro version) 3. Produced a series of Suno covers until I found something I liked . Used female AI vocals and instructed it to use the exact key and vocal nuances as in the sample 4. Exported all stems to wav files 5. Dragged all stems to Realband, muted lead vocal 6. Recorded my vocal 7. Did any editing of glitches in instrumental and backing vocals in realband. Particularly at the start and end. 8. Cleaned, tuned and fixed timing issues with my vocal using Melodyne. 10. Passed my fixed vocal through Kits.ai (pro subscription) using a model trained on my own voice 11. Exported all stems from realband 12. Used cryo-mix ai (pro subscription) tool to mix and master the final file. I think the preset I used was “radio ready”. Hope this helps
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Ah knew right away you weren't talking about The Blues. Man, you sure DO have some use for these blues. Whatr a great tune. Hey, not all Chicago Blues is played in Chicago. Your harp sounds great. Fun changes and a good mix make this a jump-along song. Excellent choice of vocalist too. Thanks, Marty! You sang two dark blues songs of mine (for which I'm eternally grateful), I should've asked you to sing this uplifting one to compensate. You would have been perfect, I don't know why I didn't think about it. Well, the next positive blues song I write, it's yours.
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Good song. I liked the subject matter, a worthy topic if ever there was one. Enjoyed my listen.
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A whole different direction for you. 130 bpm, you haven't done that in a long time. Usually it's 60. Sounded great, you're fearless when it comes to genre delving.
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Happy Birthday Mario! May the MIDI force be with you! 🎹✨
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Ideally, I would prefer a "smart" tool not dials or settings. Unfortunately "Right Click > Erase" is not saved on re-open (I've reported this) along with about 1/2 a dozen other items that prevent smooth workflow in Piano Roll and about same amount of bugs. From my understanding these (at least most) will be fixed this year. I am patiently waiting. However, patience is not made out of rubber  On the bright side, re-imagined Piano Roll is definitely a huge step up. I am able to complete much more in BIAB than before. One workflow tip if you have a second screen... detach Piano Roll from UI (Ctrl+click on Piano Roll icon on side panel), put it secondary monitor. It is significantly better working with Piano Roll full screen along whatever other screen set you are using than in docked mode. Lets bring this conversation back, when we get the patch that addresses known issues in PR.... so there is enough substance to talk about.
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Hans, it's rare to come across a philosophical song that is also enchanting and you've done it remarkably well. It's folky and pleasant, moves lightly like Simon and Garfunkel's "Cloudy." It's a keeper for sure! John
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Hi, Marty. It's a lovely reminder to slow down and take in what we take for granted. It's an interesting approach to use minor chords on a pleasant peaceful theme and it works like a Moody Blues song, and that's a very good thing. The tempo compliments the feeling of slowing down to look around. Very nice work! John
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Hey, Ron. I really like it! It's the best song Weezer never wrote! Very catchy, bouncy, light, irresistible pop. John
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It's Monty Python .. you must be a young one <grin> And I was joking, which I hope the above explains I have every season on DVD and the early movies (Holy Grail, Life of Brian, etc) .. signed, nerd / Also have a copy of Song of the South, try and find that one! // And various mixes of MC Breeds unreleased final track (precious) /// I should shut up now, someone's at the door  Thought I was the only one left . . . Life of Brian and Meaning of Life are works of art lol On the original post - This is a sad topic but I would want people to know if I was gone I guess. This thread did give me a great idea for a song I'm going to try and get finished this weekend though!
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That's a fantastic opening line! Snappy but laid back tune. Pleasant instrumentation. I enjoyed your lead guitar.
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Excellent remixing of the elements. The sound is pristine. A lovely melody with a lovely voice singing. The pianist is nailing her part. Very enjoyable!
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when anyone comments favorably on my vocals I attrubute it to: Melodyn, Ozone, Nectar and Neutron (the entire iZotope line up) along with vocal lessons and gifts on loan from God. Probably deserves it's own thread but . . . I have 5 zillion "free" vsts for my DAW and nothing really useful. I would love to see what people are using in their vocal chain as far as DAW plugins.I'm certainly willing to spend a little if I can find something useful and very user friendly
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Hello Risi, Thanks for the video! I can duplicate it when doing it that way a well. I will report this to the dev team. Catherine
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Rockin' tune, John. Great theme and snappy arrangement. Like what Bob adds to the production. Especially love his lead guitar fills. Great use of BiaB instruments. I've used those StoneZ RealTracks hundreds of times, and they always sound great. This does, too.
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Mario, Thanks so much - we both appreciate your support and kind words. The Ladybird came with flat wound strings, but I changed them to 11-49 with a wound G string. I don't like the tension on the flats - they always feel very stiff to me. It's an awesome guitar. I had to sell a few others to help fund this one. Bob
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Thanks Ron. Happy to hear you enjoyed my "silly little" love song! Another note about this song (Andrew was asking about this too) was that the chord progression came from a jam session I had in a cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains where I lived (1974-1975) amidst the Redwoods. Just me and another guitar player playing two mahogany-bodied guitars, a Guild and a Martin. The progression was so cool that I continued to play it (fingerpicking-style) over time. And then, years later when I received a copy of the lyrics to I'm Your Man from Kathy, well the words just fit perfectly with the chords and melody I had created. And finally using BIAB, and after many years later, I was able to find the band (style) to help me produce, as you said, a cool soft rock vibe.
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Hello, No, that shouldn't be an issue an issue at all. Just a few questions for you: When you ran the install manager, did you give that full disk access? Is everything is installed to the internal drive? Did you install overtop of your existing version? Does Band-in-a-Box have full disk access? How much space is available on the drive you are running from? Looking forward to your replies. Thanks! Catherine
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Really like this! Took me back to long nights on I-10 between Phoenix and my Marine base outside L.A. Your lyrics and vocals brought back those empty roads and late night radio! Great job!
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Hi Matt, I will check to see if there are any update options to this and will let you know. Best, Cat
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Yes, with that menu command just given, you may linger on those messages as long as you like. It’s not a joke; some of those messages have been valuable for troubleshooting. And if you’ve been along here long enough, you get to see things happen in a few seconds that used to take long enough to go make a sandwich.
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That is a very good and appropriate comment, Laurent. It's the current regime that is shocking, not the song, and our natural reaction is to use foul language to express our dismay and distress. And the song does just that and wonderfully well. It is a lot different than using foul language to shock or just for the sake of using it to sound cool and trendy. I fully agree, John. Laurent put it better than I ever could ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif)
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You know that I love the blues so you know that I will love these blues! As usual outstanding vocal, arrangement, guitar leads, and mix. This is better than many of the songs on Alligator records. Loved everything about this song Thanks Mario. We appreciate your kind remarks indeed. J&B
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There's a 2nd thread for Mario's birthday in the Off Topic forum here But HAPPY BIRTHDAY from me here as well. Worth repeating.
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