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Thanks John! While I haven’t had too many issues with using compression, I might give your settings a spin next time ‘round to hear how they sound. Andrew
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It would be nice if PG Music were to allow entering percentages in Tempo change to box, by appending the % at the end. So, Tempo change to 60 would set the tempo to exactly 60, whereas Tempo change to 60% would change the tempo to (original song tempo x 60%). This would eliminate the clunky Tempo change by % usage which can get even trickier to use during repeats, since it wouldn't be affected by repeats and you can easily reset changes by setting Tempo change to 100%. Might also make it easier to simulate the ritardando (and similar) effects. So... useful feature request?
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Thank you, Robert. As a newbie, I am overwhelmed by the support given in this community!!
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Hi Donny. Like the easy feel of this and instrument choice. Maybe a little too long waiting for the vocal. Vic Hi Vic, thank you for the kind comments, yea the song does have a full set of chords before i start singing. Thank you again. Donny G
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Sorry to revive an old issue but I have been struggling with a similar problem - RB 2026 freezes when I try to generate a RealTrack. In my case the issue started when I upgraded from BB 2022 to BB 2026. I tried everything from reinstalling BB 2026 several times to updating all of the HW drivers on my PC but no luck. What seems to have worked (and I hope permanently) is freeing up hard drive space on the drive where the file you are working on resides. For example, I have a hard drive dedicated to music called M: where all of my .SEQ files are saved. I freed up as much space as possible on drive M: and I’ve got about 70GB free space now. After freeing up space, I am able to generate RealTracks. As a precaution, I also moved my RBBackup folder to a different drive so as to preserve M: hard drive space. (see Options – Preferences – 3-File, “Save backups to a custom backup folder…”) I can appreciate your frustration. Hopefully this helps.
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That makes perfect sense to me. I don't use that function in BIAB so I don't know if there is a current way to do this. I do use SMPro and I am aware of a discussion with the developers that I think is related somewhat to this idea.
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Wow! Thanks man! I'm new to BIAB Forums, so I'm trying to get into the feel of things!
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John, one thing music can do is to bring out emotions and since this is not even close to being PC I'm sure you'll get some negative feedback. I liked the vocal FX, backing band, and mix.
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Close my eyes and there it is, the dimly lit gym with the meanest teachers making sure we didn't dance too closely. Yeah, my view is from the stage where we all took our socks OFF, ala Oteil. Man, this is fun, Mario. That sax player was really too good for our band; maybe a visiting cousin from Sweden. Seriously, Mario, I love what you do. FANtastic. Thanx so much Marty for this wonderful review. Yep, we had the oldest meanest teachers in the history of civilation at our school. We didn't have any rights like the brats kids have today. But at least we all grew up!
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Andrew, you've just shown me the power of 'Breaking the Mold'. John Lennon influenced? I don't know, just something about it! Fact is, I'm gonna use that as the title of my new song, ... "Breaking The Mold!" Thank you Andrew, for the inspiration!! I really enjoyed what I'll call your "Chaotic Soundscape! "! That's it for now, I got a new song to write!
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Enjoyable listen, right from the start. The emotion really comes through. Great harmonies!
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Noel, Your work always has such a high sheen to it. This piece is perfection - top to bottom. Everything from the writing, to the arrangement, to your singer is a complete delight. Loved it all! Bob Hi Bob. It's good to see you. Thank you for passing through the thread. I sincerely appreciate your comments a lot. --Noel
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Hi Vic. I really enjoyed listening to this song. A 12/8 feel always gets my attention. For me, verse 2 lyrics were a standout. There was a bar. There was a waitress. Seems only yesterday, ooh, but could be more. She took your order. She took your reason. Left you with no pride and nowhere to go, so you sing out ... Have mercy. Have a little mercy. Have mercy. Have a little mercy on me. "Left you with no pride and nowhere to go" is such an awesome line! I congratulate your on your arrangement, your writing, your vocals and your production. In every way, this was a very satisfying musical journey. --Noel
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Hi Shigeki Adachi. My gosh! These two tracks are first-class listening in every possible way. I listened to the Realtracks version first and was highly impressed. Then I listened to you and your friends, and I was totally mesmerised at just how awesome it sounded. Tsuyoshi Tamada's vocals were excellent and you've mixed them perfectly. I also have to compliment your friends (the Yamaha Teachers) too. As always, they have done a superb job. What stood out more than anything to me was just how skilled you are at arranging and producing music. Your sense of good, extremely well-crafted music puts you in a league of your own. Once again, I found myself completely captured by what you have done, and I absolutely loved listening to it. Once again, it's "Wow" from me. --Noel
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Great, Bob! You can do no wrong. Enjoyed it a lot.
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B.D. Awesome. Guitars sound Great. Bass sounds Great. Drums sound Great. Vocals sound Great. LOVE the melody. Love the "space" in both the write and the production. Gorgeous mix. Love the write-up, too.... Please tell us what you use to do the video. (sites and/or software). Amazing consistent character. Amazing lip-sync. Details. please. How much time does it take? Color me Impressed. On so many levels. fj Thanks a lot for your really nice comment, Floyd. Highly appreciated  The making of the video in a nutshell: - It all runs locally on my PC, I hate subscriptions
- You need an NVIDIA graphics card with at least 16 GB of VRAM, the more the better
- I use 2 AI models: Qwen-Image-Edit to create and modify images LTX-2 to create the videos
- There's a (browser-based) tool called ComfyUI (see https://www.comfy.org/ ) to run the AI models
- There's a guy on YouTube who creates workflows for using the AI models in ComfyUI: Nerdy Rodent (YouTube) where I learned the basics. Everything is now also described on the model pages linked above, but it is still a good idea to watch the videos.
In terms of time required, it took me about a week (2-3 hours per day) to explore all the possibilities and customize the ComfyUI workflow to my needs. However, you only need to do this once and can then use it for all your videos. My main focus was on a) character consistency, b) perfect lip synchronization, and c) natural acting and breathing. For the next video, I plan to make the characters look more natural, but that shouldn't be too difficult. The final video took about four hours with a lot of trial and error until all the scenes matched my vision. It's a good idea to write a film script beforehand! Then another hour to sync the scenes to the music in my video software.
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Do you actually have the Audiophile SSD as shipped (2025)? This should be very fast, and I would suggest just running it from the SSD, since you would need about 700 GB of free space on your internal drive. Or, do you mean that you have an SSD of your own that you transferred a pre-2025 audiophile to? (Audiophiles were not shipped on SSD until 2025). Or, do you just mean you have a hard drive with the Audiophile on it. If it is an older HDD there could be some benefit in transferring it to a newer SSD (internal or another external drive). All you need to do is have both drives connected to your computer, and copy the '/Applications/Band-in-a-Box' folder from one drive to the other. If you have an external drive without the 'Applications' folder, just create that folder first. If it is the same computer you are running Band-in-a-Box on, that's the only thing you need to do (copy the Band-in-a-Box folder) - plugins are already installed, and program is already activated. If it will be a different computer, you will want to run the Band-in-a-Box Setup (minimal install option) and activate the program. You could de-activate on your previous computer first, in order to free up an activation.
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Hello, This is currently not possible to do. Some style memos will list the song name, that may help. Thank you, Catherine
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This is on a PC, Might be the same for Mac. Preferences-Display-uncheck New line each section.
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Much appreciated. Thanks!
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Hello Dennis, You will see all your upgrade options on this page: https://www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.packages.htm and you qualify for any of the upgrades on the row "Upgrade from 2024 or earlier, or crossgrade." Thank you, Catherine
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Hi Mario and Noel, Thanks a lot for your nice words about this song. I really enjoyed them. Especially because of the "orchestra adventure" in it. Hans, loved the arrangement I really liked how you use the orchestra to augment your song - brilliant Great vocal and mix IMHO this is your best to date Mario, aside from your kind words, I know you're also teasing me a bit with that "IMHO" line! But you've put a spin on it and challenged me; maybe I can do better than this, although this is my best so far... Hi Hans. This is an intriguing presentation. I agree with David when he said: "It all sounds a bit jagged and off-balanced (instead of being some smooth ballad), which works especially well." This is a very inventive arrangement and it well suits the message of the song. You've really thought outside the box when putting this one together. Kudos to you on a terrific result --Noel Hey Noel, thanks for your incredibly kind and wonderful words! I think you've perfectly summed up the "outside-the-box" thinking in this song. That literally happened; the idea for the violin part didn't come until a while after I thought I had finished the song. Hans
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Thumper. re rb and your rig. heres what i think might be happening..... heres the scenario.. todays advanced sound interfaces have various input and output driver selections often for WAS and ASIO. thus its important to select the right drivers. basically its a gotcha. on my interface for example i have various selection options for drivers. thus its easy to get a prob given the various options if the right driver isnt selected. heres a suggestion. you say other music apps work with your rig fine. sooo...i would like you to go to the user preferences of each of them and log the driver selections for each whether WAS or ASIO....THEN...ensure you use the same driver selections for input and output drivers in RB. follow up whether still a problem....or if prob solved. in my interface i have to be carefull re driver selection. ive seen the above gotcha with various rigs. i think its got to be a settings issue because too many of us are running rb just fine....as i said some rb users have done over 80 songs in rb and more. another thing you might want to try is rent another interface (it only costs a few bucks for a week..dirt cheap...) and see if the prob goes away. hth and thats all i got. om
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Hi Janice, Bud and Peter, Well, this is something completely different from what I'm used to from you! A dark song, dark (but fantastic) vocals, and fantastic guitar playing from Peter. I searched in Google translate for the meaning of "Mojo" but it came up with "Mojo" in Dutch...? Whatever, as I wrote; a great song, wonderful singing and solo. Liked the lyrics, especially: "met an old woman on the corner i knew she had my answer i saw wisdom behind her eyes she said quit listening to them lies" Janice, I also warned you for those wrong men you always sing about. Now she comes too! Hans
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