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Thanks again PGMusic for your generosity and appreciation for the user community. And thanks for your continued enthusiasm to develop new features for the best music software in the universe, even after 40 years. Janne
Bonjour Laurent, Merci de ton message. Oui je connais toutes ces cases très utiles d'ailleurs. Mon souci était de savoir pourquoi Install Manager n'a pas pu installer bandinabox_2026.pkg alors qu'il l'a fait pour les 44 dossiers précédents. J'ai téléchargé cette mise à jour sur un disque dur externe sauf ce dernier dossier qu'il était impossible de faire. Alors j'ai eu l'idée d'installer bandinabox_2026.pkg sur mon Mac dans le dossier BIAB et ça a fonctionné. Ensuite je l'ai recopié dans mon disque dur et tout semble montrer que ça fonctionne. Mais si tu as d'autres idées dis les moi car PGmusic semble dire qu'il n'est pas bon de changer de destination comme je l'ai fait ... Merci François
Hans, Great! Love the melody and the drive in this song. Very cool lyrics. Your vocal on this is excellent. You are really in fine voice! Loved it all! Bob
Hey Mario, you keep amazing me with the music you make! Beautiful! That bassoon (we call it a "Bassoon") was a lovely addition to the track. I just found that transition, somewhere towards the end, a bit intense. I thought there was something wrong with my earbuds... But then, fortunately, the orchestra started playing at full volume again! Hans
Hi Chay, Ja, ik herinner me die eerdere versie. Niet in detail, geef ik toe. Ik weet nog dat ik hem goed vond, maar nu heb je het nummer meer energie gegeven. Voor zover ik me kan herinneren, heb je de piano en een aantal dingen in de ritmesectie veranderd. De ritme gitaar en zelfs de sologitaar speelden, zoals ik al zei, met echt meer energie. Erg mooi geworden! Hans
Hi Rob, That you were already working with this style back then! I never thought it was really your style, or like the English say: "it's not your cup of tea", but it sounds very pleasant. Suno's vocals are good, but I would have preferred a somewhat 'rawer' singer, with a lower voice. But I know that Motown needs sweet-voiced voices. That is exactly what you did! Hans
Ron, Wow! Very cool! Love the fast pace and excellent arrangement. Great stop ending! Awesome vocal as usual. This was a fun one! Count me in as one of your fans! Bob
Thanks, Bob! Yeah, the arrangement gets a little bonkers as it slides into the bridge/solo, but so are the lyrics, SO...glad it didn't lose you! Welcome to the fan club! We're honored.
Hi, Hans. A bit less hard-edged than most of your productions, leaning towards folk. Interesting mix, and thoughtful lyrics. "Forlorn" doesn't mean "lost" (it's closer in meaning to "abandoned"), but the English Rhyme Guild requires that it always be paired with either "lost", or "forsaken".
That sounded nifty. (I've been wanting to use that adjective.) Mandolin sounds good. Who woulda thunk you haven't been playing that long. I like the way you passed the melody over to the electric guitar to close the song.
If you purchased style pack and ultra pack add-ons, these will not be included in your 2026 download and will need to be installed separately. You should find those downloads under My Products. If there are URLs listed, these can my pasted into the Band-In-A-Box Install Manager. In subsequent years, you will install your upgrades over the old version and these should not need reinstalling. It's also a good idea to scroll through the list in the Install Manager and see if something is showing not installed. If so, you can install it again—even if you think it should already be there.
As detailed above, you will still have a small amount of files that must reside on the boot disk, including the small font files needed to display notation in BIAB. But you will see massive savings if you choose to put the RealTracks and Drums folders on another drive. I highly recommend an SSD for your external drive, but most now are SSD. Some users will install the minimum of BIAB on different computers and move an external drive between those computers such as a desktop and laptop. You have three activations, and if needed, you can even deactivate one and 'move' that activation to another computer.
I find it's a good idea to have a Synth about just in case its needed for a song that I wouldn't normally do. I have this one for years now, loads of presets and works well within Biab. .................................
Yes, that is a good synth. I have had it for years also and IIRC I did purchase it while it was on sale, I rarely buy anything music related unless it is on sale.
First of all, I’m glad you’re back with a song. I saw that you had already posted comments on other songs, but now you’re back with your own! It was about time, wasn't it?
Past time, actually. I've been working on my singing synthesis project again, and went down a rabbit hole trying to get automatic phoneme alignment working, grossly underestimating the complexity of the problem. It's one of those things that would be much faster to do by hand instead of trying to automate it.
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And then the song itself: It is quite different from what I had expected from you; a song from the old jazz box! You did a great job; the atmosphere is perfect, just like back in the day, or as I often heard it from my father (he was a real jazz lover, I a bit less so).
I think everyone is a jazz lover... it's just a matter of degree. When I was a kid, we used to have a yearly Dixieland Jazz Jubilee. Great music, but there's a limit to how much banjo I can take in one day.
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I had the same comment as Brain about the lead vocals (I would have preferred them a bit lower/fuller), but your explanation to him was clear enough to accept your choice as well!
Heh. I did mention the melody started out an octave higher, didn't I?
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And the harmonies with that female voice were truly beautiful!
Thanks, I really is a lovely sound, even if it is synthetic.
Hey mon this is super, reggae with a message other than pass it on! Super vocal Janice. Peter that was one hell of a guitar track - brilliant job. Great mix Bud. As usual I loved it
Thank you for mentioning the vocal, guitar and mix. That covered all we could’ve hoped for. Very much appreciated! J&B
Asking a computer to do everything for you, which is what Suno and other similar AI programs do, is not "creating" anything.
I guess some people use it like that. I don't. I've been home multitrack recording for decades. I feed Suno my completed recordings. I'm an instrumentalist, not a singer or songwriter. Suno apparently does well on SONGS. I'm very unimpressed with what it did with several of my instrumentals. I think my original was better. That is, except this piece. I had improvised this sort of orchestral thing years ago. I'm not classically trained. I fed it into Suno. This blew me away. Cougar's "Philharmonic" (on soundcloud)
Hi Ray, the last post on this waltz! What did you wrote?
Originally Posted by rayc
The stacked vocals don't quite work for me in the chorus at 1.30 & repeats after it. Not quite balanced, in time etc and distracting from your main vocal ends up sounding cluttered. The song is great as it the band and band mix. Sudden end though...odd. COOL STUFF.
I think you were right about the not good balanced vocals, Ray. No one else talked about it, but I noticed it myself too. While I had aligned them with vocalign, it wasn't how I wish it had to sound. It wasn't bad, but it could have been better. Maybe in another song? Although that Vocalign is still playing tricks on me... Whatever, thanks for your compliments! Hans
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I've been working on my singing synthesis project again, and went down a rabbit hole trying to get automatic phoneme alignment working, grossly underestimating the complexity of the problem. It's one of those things that would be much faster to do by hand instead of trying to automate it. 
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