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VERY nicely done, B.D.! Cool tune, and the vocals are quite nice and a very convincing stand in for the way contemporary human vocals are processed these days in popular music. Reggae was a nice choice and, yes, it always makes ME feel happy, too. And so did your song. Perfect arrangement and mix. Lots of dynamic range but lots of space, too. Am POSITIVE Mrs Thomas will L-O-V-E it. Not that I wouldn't enjoy seeing you busking. That would be cool.  It's really cool to know that Reggae music puts a lot of other people in a good mood, too. Thank you, Ron ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif)
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There's a world of things to like about this. Great opening Fine lyrics STRONG vocal Excellent mix Nice selection of BiaB session folks Yeah, we enjoyed it! J&B
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That slinky 3/4 vibe is so cool. And the narrative and vocals are so supportive of it. We could envision strolling along a sidewalk in the evening and hearing the tune from a club. A upon entering we stayed for the set. Our productions may not make it obvious but we listen to a lot of music like this. Well done and, as always, we enjoyed the backstory and data. J&B
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Creative, tasteful and lovely. Wonderful chops and tone. And the great mix really shows it all off. Three minutes of wonder. We much enjoyed it! J&B
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Hey Bob, Thank you for the kind comments! I really appreciate them. Just don't be expecting me to keep up with you man cuz I can't. đ
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Marty, That's so kind. We are both very appreciative. Bob
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Superb intro! Great instrumentation for this excellent rocker, plus both really good lyrics and vocals. Love that hyperactive solo, too! That intro has some Humble Pie influence in it. It was a ton of fun recording it. Thanks for listening
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Hi, Laurent. Cool vibe! Nice work on the guitar, too! Thank you very much, David. Laurent
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That's a lovely song, excellent style and mixing. Laurent
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Thank you Izzy. Good to hear. Vic
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Good news- we've extended our Band-in-a-BoxÂź 2026 for MacÂź special offers until May 31, 2026! Band-in-a-BoxÂź 2026 is packed with major new features, enhancements, and an incredible lineup of new content! The program now sports a sleek, modern GUI redesign across the entire interface, including updated toolbars, refreshed windows, smoother workflows, a new dark mode option, and more. The brand-new side toolbar provides quicker access to key windows, while the new Multi-View feature lets you arrange multiple windows as layered panels without overlap, creating a flexible, clutter-free workspace. We have an amazing new âAI-Notesâ feature. This transcribes polyphonic audio into MIDI so you can view it in notation or play it back as MIDI. You can transcribe an entire track (all pitched instruments and drums) or focus on individual parts like drums, bass, guitars/piano, or vocals. There's an amazing collection of new content too, including 202 RealTracks, new RealStyles, MIDI SuperTracks, Instrumental Studies, âSongs with Vocalsâ Artist Performance Sets, Playable RealTracks Set 5, two RealDrums Stems sets, and much more! There are over 100 new features in Band-in-a-BoxÂź 2026 for MacÂź. When you order purchase Band-in-a-BoxÂź 2026 before 11:59 PM PDT on May 31st, you'll also receive a Free Bonus PAK packed with exciting new add-ons. Check out the Band-in-a-BoxÂź for Mac packages page to find the best package for you.
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Brno, thanx for telling the background stories for your songs. Fantastic chops on all of the instruments you play - you are a very talented musician Great backing band and mix Great vocal I really liked this one
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I probably should know that song but do not. When I think of soft shoe, Cute by Neal Hefti comes to mind. You could try using the filter in the style picker and entering the names of similar songs. Iâm not at a computer now to try that. If you donât find it that way, make a Styles Wishlist post. It wonât help now, but eventually.
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Heck Mario, we don't have a clue anymore as to what your comfort zone is. Every time you leave it you still produce a great tune. We think your comfort zone is a BIG tent. The style mashups and your instrumental performances are high bar indeed. Andrew mention a Bond film. And we can see the barely clothed ladies swimming under the water in the opening credits. Mesmerizing in the good way! J&B Thanx so much Janice and Bud for this great review. I am all for "barely clothed ladies swimming" regardless of where they are 
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Glad to help. The Medley Maker is quite a powerful tool. Each of the 24 BIAB Mixer channels have the feature giving users 264 slots to place RealTrack instruments and with lots of ways to program variations and arrangements.
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Bonjour Laurent, Back in the day when I lived and worked in London we would channel hop over to Paris as often as we could to explore and soak up the amazing atmosphere of your magical city. Well now iâve just spent a lovely few minutes wandering the streets of Paris again via your track. It really is a marvelous piece of workâthe arrangement has that classic, infectious swing that makes it impossible not to tap your foot. Youâve captured the atmosphere of the city beautifully; itâs almost enough to make me forget the claustrophobia of the Catacombs! Youâve clearly put a great deal of skill into blending those Band-in-a-Box styles and pulling it all together in Cubase. Itâs an impressive technical feat. I have to admit, though, watching the AI-generated video and listening to that uncanny, Sinatra-esque vocal did give me a bit of a surreal 'digital dizzy izzy spell.' Iâm a bit of a Luddite at heartâI still miss the satisfying, clattering grit of the old London Underground compared to the pristine silence of your Parisian Metroâso itâs wild to see algorithms painting the Seine and crooning like a lounge singer. Itâs quite the 'Brave New World' weâre living in, isn't it? While I sometimes find myself wanting to hunt for the 'human heartbeat' behind the digital polish, I canât deny the result is a delight to listen to. Thank you for sharing your creative project with usâyouâve certainly provided a very stylish, if slightly sci-fi, trip to the City of Light. salutations Izzy.
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A gentle swing with a solid bass pulse under this life lesson. Really enjoyed it Marty. Thanks, Ray. The message is mute when it falls on selfish ears. Hi Marty, as I already said on YouTube, it is a great song. Read what the others said about it again. That German guy, Brain, even wants you as president! Iâm not against it! You need normal people and a normal government again. The world is getting crazier and crazier, but your country is winning. We are amazed at how easy it is to become a crook there! But I admire people like you, who don't do that! Although it is a crazy, good song! Hans Hi, Hans. Sorry to say --no, happy to say-- i don't have what it takes to be a politician --or rich. Great groove and well produced. As a past bass player I can value your bass playing. Thanks, Brno. Why is your bass playing in the past? You play everything so well. Hi, Marty. I didn't have any problem understanding the message of the song. So I guess I connected the dots, too. Fine work, as usual. Thanks, David. I knew you knew the way. Excellent song in all respects: great positive lyrics, instrumentation, arrangement, mix and production. Love the message! Thanks, Chay. Thanks also for mentioning it on YT.
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He used to post a lot here. Definitely one of the most advanced BiaB users out there, and very generous with his time.
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Hi. This is my scenario: I have a bunch of stems (bass, lead guitar, rhythm guitar) and I want to import these into BiaB so that I can convert these to Realtracks. But after spending some 5 hours today trying to figure this out, I am no closer to a solution. There are a lot of instructional videos on the web, but I haven't been able to find anything which explains how to do this. Could someone give me a step-by-step workflow? I have both the WAV and the MIDI stems, if that's a help? Duncan
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It was a holiday weekend in Canada They posted they were closed over the weekend.
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And here I sit in 2026, a mere 10 years after this thread started, and nearly 2 years after my last post in this thread, I'm having an issue changing the RealDrums selection in my song files in my spiffy new 2026 version of BiaB. First, I created the entire song with the first slow blues style I ran into, which used one of the Nashville128 RealDrums series. Then, I went looking for something a little more interesting and found a Texas Blues slow blues style that featured drums with a nice slushy half open hihat. In the first bar selection blue box, Snare, Hi Hat Loose was selected. See Texas Blues Rock song file below. This is the SGU file for the demo version of the style. So, when i opened my original song file, and right clicked on the first bar section select blue box, there was no selection for Snare, Loose Hi Hat present in the Nashville128 RealDrum package. See the selection details in My original song file below. Then, I right clicked on the RealDrums=Nashville128 in the Mixer window and changed the RealDrums selection to the BluesRock 128^6. When I auditioned my song file, it still played the previous Nashville128 drums. And, when I right clicked on the first bar section select blue box, I noticed that there was no selection available for Snare, Hi Hat Loose. Also, the RealDrums selection text had changed to RealDrums=BluesRock128^6. This was misleading because the actual drums being played were still the Nashville128. Also, when I closed the file, I was not asked to save changes. I closed the Band-In-A-Box application, and relaunched it. It came up as shown in New App Instance below. When I hit the space bar to play in the default window, it played with the slushy hihat drums that wanted. The RealDrums selection shows BluesRock128^6, and the right click details show a selection for Snare, Hi Hat Loose. Doesn't this indicate that the BluesRock drums are actually present in my system, even though they are not being accessed in my song file? Is the attribute I am changing immune to changes, or am I missing something here? If I am not actually changing the drum selection, why is the text changing but not the actual drum selection? ADVthanksANCE -Jack (no slushy hihat in Central Texas)
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+++ Here +++ is a link to the 16 minute PG Music 2026 piano roll video Charlie mentioned.
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Rockin' rhythm and tasteful solos and I just love the vocals of Janice. I wonder if she good visit on one of my songs needing a female vocalist? I have done a couple of that kind of remote coproductions. Thank you! Weâre glad you liked it and please see our PM to you. J&B
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It's a very catchy song that starts off strong. Bravo to the vocals, which are excellent, just like the song itself. Laurent THANKS, Laurent! Hi Ron! I agree with Hans about the tongue twisters - I donât know how you could do it - Iâd be tripping over myself! Illustrates the frenetic pace of touring and the like? Good guitar solo! Your exclamation point in your summary had me waiting with great anticipation and you didnât disappoint. Andrew Thank you, Andrew! I'm a lyrics-are-the-song guy, so always TRY to make the lyrics understandable. The primary vocal risk on these faster tunes for me is hyperventilating. Left a couple of audible gasps for air in the mix on this one because I thought they were funny in the context of the song. At the time though, they weren't so much. The guitar solo, like the rest of the song, is a bit of a caricature of a rock solo. It was a lot of fun to do though. Glad it worked!!!
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"We gotta get clear of, the burden of what's done Can't have no fear of, what we ought to shun" We quoted the above in our response to the original post. And we still feel it is great.That is one of if not the best Suno vocal we have heard. It really fits the vibe and narrative.Excellent arrangement, band and mix! J&B Thanks, J&B, for quoting lyrics, that always makes me happy! I'm also glad the Suno vocal worked for you. I'm very happy with it!
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Band-in-a-BoxÂź 2026 Mac Special Offers Extended Until May 31st!
Good news- we've extended our Band-in-a-BoxÂź 2026 for MacÂź special offers until May 31, 2026!
Band-in-a-BoxÂź 2026 is packed with major new features, enhancements, and an incredible lineup of new content! The program now sports a sleek, modern GUI redesign across the entire interface, including updated toolbars, refreshed windows, smoother workflows, a new dark mode option, and more. The brand-new side toolbar provides quicker access to key windows, while the new Multi-View feature lets you arrange multiple windows as layered panels without overlap, creating a flexible, clutter-free workspace. We have an amazing new âAI-Notesâ feature. This transcribes polyphonic audio into MIDI so you can view it in notation or play it back as MIDI. You can transcribe an entire track (all pitched instruments and drums) or focus on individual parts like drums, bass, guitars/piano, or vocals. There's an amazing collection of new content too, including 202 RealTracks, new RealStyles, MIDI SuperTracks, Instrumental Studies, âSongs with Vocalsâ Artist Performance Sets, Playable RealTracks Set 5, two RealDrums Stems sets, and much more!
There are over 100 new features in Band-in-a-BoxÂź 2026 for MacÂź.
When you order purchase Band-in-a-BoxÂź 2026 before 11:59 PM PDT on May 31st, you'll also receive a Free Bonus PAK packed with exciting new add-ons.
Check out the Band-in-a-BoxÂź for Mac packages page to find the best package for you.
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202 New RealTracks Released with Band-in-a-Box 2026!
With Band-in-a-BoxÂź 2026, we've released 202 incredible new RealTracks (in sets 468-488) in a variety of genresâfeaturing your most requested styles!
Jazz, Funk & World (Sets 468-475):
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Our new rock & pop RealTracks bring a powerful mix of requested favorites, fresh genres, and modern chart-inspired styles! We have more of our popular âProducer Layered Acoustic Guitars (15)â featuring Band-in-a-Box favorite Brent Mason. Weâve continued our much-requested disco styles (10), and added new Celtic guitar (5) with a more basic, accessible approach than our previous Drop-D or DADGAD offerings. There are also highly requested yacht rock styles (17), inspired by the smooth, polished soft-rock sound of the late â70s and early â80s â laid-back grooves, silky electric pianos, warm textures, elegant harmonic movement, and pristine production aesthetics. Fans of heavier styles will love our new glam metal (13), capturing the flashy, high-energy sound of â80s arena-ready guitar rock. We also have a set of rootsy modern-folk rock (18), with a warm, organic sound combining contemporary folk textures and driving acoustic strumming. And weâve added lots of new modern pop styles (16) â the kinds of sounds youâre hearing on the radio today, featuring exciting new drums, synths, and cutting-edge RealTracks arrangements.
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