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You need to reselect your scheme on the first reopening (even if it is already checked) and it will hold.
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Je suis à Rouen et je joue de la guitare, à un niveau très amateur. Mais depuis que j'ai découvert Biab, par hasard, je n'ai cessé de chercher à bien le faire fonctionner. Et cette refonte 26 m'a rendu fou de joie, j'avoue. Tout est facile, directement accessible, rapide, instantané. Bref, j'adore !
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I agree with all of that, with the possible exception that I think the important warning should perhaps be in red text and have an additional "check the facts for yourself". AI can and does sometimes write complete nonsense with with absolute assuredness.
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A solid, well-mixed song. No melody, but it works well with the guitars. Laurent
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Thanks Audio Track, I now have the style loaded and working. I've consistently had problems trying to find styles after searching for and hearing examples. I'll practise finding other styles following your example to see if this clues me in.
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“THERE’S A SONG AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE SOMEWHERE I HAVEN’T LOOKED IT MIGHT BE IN THE KITCHEN WITH THE SUPPER I WAS S’POSED TO COOK IN A SHOE BOX BURIED IN THE CLOSET AMONG THE LETTERS KEPT IN THERE I’LL JUST KEEP ON SEARCHING ‘TIL I FIND THAT SONG SOMEWHERE” We and many, many others can easily relate to that! Great write. The two of us have lately enjoyed remixing and/or remastering older productions. The guitar G run made us smile. And took us back to our many years in bluegrass bands. Great BiaB session guys, excellent vocals and a nice open mix with plenty of subtle dynamics. Well done and we enjoyed it! J&B
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“There's a feeling at the finish line when you know you won, You won't get nowhere else, and when the day is done You can bet the beer is good, and that trophy's sweet, At Route 3 Drag-o-way, stock amateur meet” The drag race scene imagery is great - we could hear the engines and crowd and smell the rubber and gas. Bud used to visit the local drag skip when in high school. Love the RT’s and that harmonica is perfect. The SUNO vocal does fit the vibe very well. This could also describe a mountain bike racer’s feelings and race prep. Something we both did for many years.  Loved it! J&B
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Another sad story about drug usage and death. I was extremely fortunate to have two musicians that I connected with and even though they were not druggies both have died early in life. I know how Neil feels.
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Hi! although the last entry in this thread is dated quite a while ago, but since this thread is still sticky, I'd like to add my wishes for the piano roll: The option to turn the roll by 90 degrees, and that the piano keys light up for the nexts coming notes - roughly explained. So the piano roll could be used as a vertical note highway (notes fall down onto the keyboard) like in Synthesia. Mainly for the piano, keyboards and such, but also for many other instruments this would be very useful (I have even already practiced the drums with Synthesia, which is fun because of the specific view onto the relations between the rhythms of the different drumset pieces). And in particular for all bad sightreaders this would be even more useful. Specifically for the bass, I'd wish a bass fretboard instead of a piano on the bottom of the roll, with coloured strings and matching colours of the "falling notes" according to the bass tab - just as you can find this in Rocksmith or in ToneLib Jam. (And Guitar players might be happy about 6 stings, accordingly.)
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A weakness of bb is its audio and midi editing. Real band is the right vehicle to do audio and midi editing. Chock full of features .. just one example notice in RB tracks view when you do an edit you can see it in relation to all the other tracks Make your life's easier check out the RB manual. See my tips in the PG tips forum when it's best to use BB and where it's best to use real band Om
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Hey Matt, I mean what you toggle in BiaB by clicking on the bar numbers of a chord sheet. I know that there are different tags which might be used/affected in a MusicXML file, but for me personally it would already be a big help if some kind of markers would be exported to XML, so that a python script could find them at the right places. However, as always: the more precise/complete the exported infos, the better it is.
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Hi! I've probably brought up this topic already a couple of years ago, but I think that it's really over time now that BiaB gets this feature: As a Bass player, the usability of a bass tab is pretty much depending on the question if the tab has many open strings or not. Some players want open strings wherever possible, and others want to avoid them wherever possible (and btw: I think the second group is much bigger, for several reasons). And if a tab doesn't match this individual preference, a tab feels more or less just like a big mess. So this is really the very least thing that a bass player should be able to toggle as a fretboard preference in a Music Practice Software. And for sure, also the other notes should somehow match those preferences then - e.g. if a player chooses to tendentially avoid open strings and that means that a specific d-note is on the 5th fret of the a-string and not on the open d-string, then the preceding and the following notes should also be placed around the 5th fret, as long as possible. There are other fretboard preferences which could be integrated, too (e.g. tendentially prefer or avoid the g-string), and in the era of AI it should not be a real big deal to add more options to choose from in this regard. And such preferences could be implemented as global preferences and additionally as song specific preferences, which would in case override the global ones. But just in the case that you'll find it too complex then: At least a global tendentially-avoid/prefer-open-strings option should definately be integrated very soon, in my opinion.
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Ambiguity comes from various places. Part of disambiguating something is determining what sort of thing it is. When we hear a chord with no context, we generally listen for stable intervals to determine the root of the chord, as the root is generally how we determine function. With a C-E-G, the most stable intervals are C-G (perfect fifth) and C-E (major third). An inversion of those notes G-E-C gives less stable intervals, but we'll often infer a chord anyway. If we can "find" an arrangement that gives a more stable explanation, we'll hear it as an inverted stable chord. The lowest note interacts with the higher notes, creating tensions via waves interacting. And some chords are unstable by nature, like the Dim7 chord. That's a stack of minor thirds (with a diminished fifth and dom7) so there's no stable interval to be found. Each one of the notes has equal claim to being the root, but the lowest note usually wins. Jazzers often like to think of a diminished chords as a 7th chord missing the root, because we like to "understand" things using stable intervals, even if they aren't there at all.  David, I agree with rharv. In my opinion, this is one of your better posts and one of the better posts so far in this thread on the subject of chord ambiguity. Hopefully, the "what sort of thing it is" will be addresses as we work thru Contexts 1, 2 and 3. I'm going to try to capture in a document the "gem statements" that get made so I don't lose them in the sometimes cacophony of this thread. One gem for me is: "When we hear a chord with no context, we generally listen for stable intervals to determine the root of the chord, as the root is generally how we determine function." Keep these gems coming
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Cool song. Yes, I agree with you. Some of the best audiences I've ever played for were military guys and gals. We never availed the opportunity to do a USO tour. However, we were looking into the possibility to go play at "Club Gitmo" for a one month stand. Things conspired against us. The agent for that tour said we didn't have enough pop and top 40 songs in our set lists. However we did play regularly on a military base, mostly in the enlisted clubs for the Marines. So many funny stories.... one in particular.... We were just getting started in this club circuit. Our first time in the club and in the first set.... of course no body dances because it's 95% guys and the women know better than to say yes. They sat there just staring and drinking beer. Then, around the third song, they started throwing beer cans towards us which landed and started accumulating on the "dance floor" in front of the stage. We were thinking they must really think we are horrible and they hate us. So on the first break, we go outside and we're all down in the dumps. A couple of the Marines come out with us. One of the Marines says "Man, you guys are great!!!" To which we reply yeah, the rest of them in there think we s.u.c.k. To which he says, You guys must be new. ( we were ) Then he says we only throw beer cans at the good bands. You guys are at least a 3, maybe 4 barrel band. Then he explained that the barrels thing was how many 55 gallon barrels of beer cans were swept up off the floor at the end of the night. He said some bands only get 1 barrel, but the good ones get at least 3. He was right.... 4 barrels at the end of the night and we went back inside with a whole different POV and had a blast. There was even a good old bar fight when one guy knocked over the tower of beer cans 4 guys were building on their table. I guess he thought they should be throwing, and not stacking. Then there was the Recon club where they drank beer, ate glass and beer cans........ That's a good story!
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Izzy, cool song indeed. Love the open arrangement, your strong lead vocals and all the various backing vocals. Great use of BiaB and the rest of the band, too. Happy New Year!
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< How do I get stems into BIAB that were already split? I apparently split the tune into stems, don't seem to have the BIAB file from when I split them. > The stems are retained when you save the song SGU file. Stems are saved to the same folder as the SGU file and share naming association and pairing so the stems open on the proper track with the SGU project.
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Wonderful song, Janne! Loved the video too, very supportive. My wife and I both love nature and being outdoors. Nothing better in my book!
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Great to know! Thank you! So only for MusicXMLs this feature is still needed.
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Oh great! Didn't know this. Thanks, Moulti!
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It all depends. I find AI to be more helpful than the Finale manual and a lot faster—except when it is wrong and that is frequently. It doesn’t know the difference between features introduced in 27 and those discontinued in 2014. So, I have two tabs open on a side monitor—one with the manual and the other showing AI. The last Finale print manual had over 4,000 pages (2004 IIRC) on 500+ sheets of paper printed 4 pages per side—absolutely useless. BIAB is not nearly as complex and I have no problem searching the documentation on those rare occasions when I have a question. Hi Mike I’ve been working on the exact same problem. I loaded a ~4,000-page Merck Manual (Medical) locally and built a small system around it so the AI answers strictly from that material. No GPU required — this runs fine on a normal computer. The key is structuring the data and using retrieval (RAG), not raw model size. If you can run Python and have enough RAM, you can do this. This will not fix 100% of the issues, but it will fix most. I assume P G Music has done the same for the AI on their website. Cheers, Billy
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I wrote this song a couple of years ago. Hope you like it. I ONCE BELIEVED IN SUPERMAN, AND A RAINBOWS POT OF GOLD SANTA CLAUSE , THE EASTER BUNNY TOO I ONCE BELIEVED IN FAIRY TALES AND MONSTERS AND ONCE I BELIEVED IN YOU I ONCE BELIEVED THE HEROS IN THE MOVIES WERE ALL REAL AND WISHED THAT I COULD DO THE THINGS THEY DO I ONCE BELIEVED SO MANY LIES THAT PEOPLE SAID AND BABY, I BELIEVED IN YOU YEAH I ONCE BELIEVED IN YOU. YEAH I ONCE BELIEVED IN YOU BELIEVED YOU LOVED ME TO THE MOON AND BACK, BELIEVED EVERY WORD YOU SAID WAS TRUE YEAH I ONCE BELIEVED IN YOU. GUESS I WAS A FOOL YOU BROKE MY HEART IN PIECES, CAUSE I ONCE BELIEVED IN YOU PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY, TIME WILL HEAL A BROKEN HEART BUT THIS HEART OF MINE IS SAYING IT AIN'T TRUE I ONCE BELIEVED OUR LOVE WOULD LAST FOREVER CAUSE I ONCE BELIEVED IN YOU SO MANY THINGS I THOUGHT WERE TRUE WERE NEVER TRUE AT ALL SO BELIEVING, IS SO VERY HARD TO DO AND I WONDER IF I'LL EVERY TRUST IN LOVE AGAIN LIKE I PUT MY TRUST IN YOU ****** Song Summary ************* Title: I ONCE BELIEVED IN YOU File:I ONCE BELIEVED IN YOU.SGU Key=C , Tempo 75, Length (m:s)=4:00 4 bar intro, 67 bar chorus, from bar 5 to bar 71. Repeat x1 chorus No Melody No Soloist track. Song is saved with Volume, Pan, Reverb, Chorus, Bank0, Style is _LITEPOP.STY (Lite Pop w/ Songwriter Guitar) RealTracks in style: 1825:Bass, Electric, PopModernGrooveHeld Ev16 075 RealTracks in style: ~1639:Piano, Electric, Rhythm JazzFunkBreezy Ev16 075 RealTracks in style: 2552:Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking Songwriter16ths Ev16 075 RealTracks in style: 2553:Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking Songwriter16thsHigh Ev16 075 RealDrums in style:NashBrushBalDbKEv16^1-a: Snare, HiHat , b: QuarterHat, TripletSnare
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Hi Lee Excellent lead guitar. Good melody over a solid rhythm. Good vocals. Good listening. Good song. Izzy
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Donny, what a great song. Super vocal and lyrics. Super groove and backing band. I liked this one a lot!
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