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Hi Andrew. What an interesting songwriting challenge. That chord progression is certainly something that would never had occurred to me, but you made it work very, very well. There is a lot of musical creativity on display here in the writing and the arranging. It's great. The backing, the mix, your vocals and guitar work (bass & rhythm) were excellent. Thanks for the detailed notes and graphics, too. They were very interesting to read through. --Noel Thank you Noel! The song turned out better than expected - acknowledging what is an acceptable quality range for me - particularly as I thought the chord progression would be too distinctive to use. Forgetting the original song the progression came from was half the challenge. Andrew
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Okay, if it's just complaining about those few sets, and you don't want to download the large files, you could contact the live chat and ask for just those individual sets that you listed to be added to your account.
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Hi Vic. I really enjoyed listening to this a lot. I love the words and music, the arrangement, the backing track and the groove. It's also a great mix and a very engaging production. And to cap it all off, your vocals are a first-class fit. I must give a thumbs up to those excellent musical fill-ins, too. This song was listening pleasure. Very catchy and very memorable! --Noel
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We’ve had two sets of Rokits but ultimately settled in with Kalis. Reasonable price and an 8” woofer. Thanks! I guess I'd be unwilling to part with $500 for a pair! Those M-Audios were quite tempting for $220 though.
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Thanks GuitarHacker. Duly noted. Besides fixing the EQ, I now have Izotope Ozone 12 which will help me to master better in the future. AB
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Hi Mario Expertly done. Great drum intro that leads into a Jethro Tull meets Peter Gabriel playing Sledgehammer vibe. I like to hear instruments that break out of there normal environment and the flute works exceptional well in this funky song. You certainly do bring fresh ideas to your arrangements Mario, great job. Kind regards, Lee
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Thank-you all, I’m glad I’m not the only one that has trouble identifying the scroll of drop-down options. Will persist with list and see what comes up. Cheers.
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MIchael, If you can upload Realband's SEQ file to a third-party site such as Dropbox and then put a link to that file in this thread, we can download it and have a look at it. This will help us find what is causing the issue. Sometimes seeing the problem first-hand is the easiest way to resolve an issue. Regards, --Noel Audio | My latest song using BIAB (2026) and Synth V’s ‘Ninezero’ vocaloid: Take Today And Make It Mine Video | With the BIAB chordsheet playback: Take Today And Make It Mine
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Hey, that is so cool. The video was great and the music fit nicely. We had some flowers in our garden at the other house and brought them here as well. We called them Moon Flowers. They open in the evening and close when the sun comes up.. Pale yellow and the cool thing was they literally opened completely in about 10 seconds. They would twitch a few times and then open like the video shows but in real time. We found out they are actually pretty invasive weeds but still fascinating plants.
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Cool ghost from the past. I really liked the drums in the chorus.
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Boy this is going to drive me nuts. I tried doing this through the acid loops technique in Real Band. The metronome settings were changed to the sounds/volumes I wanted. Sounded perfect. Saved the metronome to a track in midi format. I 'Rendered" that track to an Acid file, gave it a name and put it in "Loops" Opened a new RB file to test things out. Selected and Created Loop with the "Generate" Button. Filled all the information and added the "loop" to a track. I even auditioned the item before clicking OK. Sounded perfect during the audition. But... Played the track. Now sounded completely different than what I did in the first step. Also completely different from the audition. And, by "completely" I mean completely. Different sounds, different instruments, etc. What am I doing wrong? Michael
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-If you start a new song and then select the same menu item, does it ask you to save the song first? -Is the dialog hidden behind the main window?
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I have been a fan since the late 70s . . . Great songwriter and put on a hell of an entertaining live show the couple times I saw him. "The Ride" is still a fixture on most of my playlists. "Controversial" would be an understatement . . . Even without bringing up "Underground Album" and "Nothing Sacred" (Full disclosure I own both)
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It would be a nice help if when we clicked "file" in BIAB 2026 the drop down "Open Favorite Songs" were offered along with "Open" and "Open Special" as this would save a few steps doing this via having to "Open Special" to get to the Open Favorite Folder. Of course an "Open Favorite Song" stand alone button would be better. But I feel like I am in the bread line requesting French Toast, LOL. PS: I will double post in the suggestion forum. Thanks, Danny C.
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It would be a nice help if when we clicked "file" in BIAB 2026 the drop down "Open Favorite Songs" were offered along with "Open" and "Open Special" as this would save a few steps doing this via having to "Open Special" to get to the Open Favorite Folder. Of course an "Open Favorite Song" stand alone button would be better. But I feel like I am in the bread line requesting French Toast, LOL. PS: I will double post in the suggestion forum. Thanks, Danny C.
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To clarify: The style was HESIT8.STY and when I launched BIAB yes I heard the metronome (like a stick on the the snare). When I load the SATIORK4, I have no sound at all. 1 - Is it correct that you do not hear any MIDI at all? Also try ZZJAZZ.STY. 2 - When you load a RealStyle (_HESIT8.STY is only RealTracks, no MIDI), you hear a metronome click. Do you ALSO hear the other instruments playing or ONLY that "metronome" sound? (or whatever the drum click is). Maybe you have some unexpected plugin selected. Try this - close Band-in-a-Box, and open the "Plugin Settings" folder in your Band-in-a-Box folder. Find and delete any DefaultSynth*.tgs and plugin_list*.txt files you see there. Open Band-in-a-Box and see if that fixed it (Band-in-a-Box will re-create these files as needed). Also, in your other thread I had a request that you may not have seen. I'll repeat it here: With Band-in-a-Box closed, please find the intrface.bbm file in the 'Applications/Band-in-a-Box/Preferences' folder. Zip this file (right-click on it and compress), and then email this zip file as an attachment to support with a message to refer to this forum thread. You can then try renaming the file intrface_old.bbm and running Band-in-a-Box to see if the problem happens with default settings. (The intrface_old is a backup of your settings.)
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Anything for futures updates for this? Anything in the works, or has it been put to bed? Just curious.
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I find the accompaniment, with the different instruments, very successful and very pleasant to listen to. A very good song. Laurent
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Interesting. IF one could type something like (verse 1) add lyrics, (verse 2) add lyrics, (chorus) add lyrics, etc this could be very beneficial to songwriters, or as backing tracks for instrumentalist. However I can also see another group of all AI generated songs created by non-musicians coming our way. This software is not for me but I can see others may benefit from it. I am certainly not going to spend $6 a month let alone $250 a month to have fun with music. I have BiaB for that!
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Hi, Ray. Listening to this made my ears happy.  As you note, not the most cheerful of songs, but musical and well done!
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Floyd you are a man of many talents. I think you could master any instrument you wanted to master. Great mandolin chops. Excellent job. PS I have a couple of >100 year old mandolins hanging on my wall; my uncle willed them to me. I also have a new mandolin hanging along side them. You gave me inspiration to attempt playing it again. I hope the frets are wider!
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Hi Janice & Bud, This song is absolutely mesmerizing—it pulled me into another world. Loved the grit and overall tone throughout. Wow! Thanks so much for sharing. Catherine Great to hear from you and thank you so much for the very kind and supportive comments. We appreciate the grit mention as we did focus on trying to achieve that. And we were excited to see that it was placed on the Hot Forum Topics list! Thanks for all and we’re glad you enjoyed that other world! J&B
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Very cool, Charlie. Never looked at this tab before, but it's quite powerful. If one sorts by the Instrument column, the drum tracks are found at the top of the list as instrument <No Patch Change>.
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I found this in "file">"print leadsheet">"more"> margins
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Hi BD. Your title brought to mind a line from Roger Miller's song "The Code Of The West: do unto others before they can do it to you." I couldn't find my pass to get through the Google gate but I assume it's a f.....g good song as you're known to be handy with that sort of thing. Vic Thanks Vic I'll post an update as soon as the song is officially released on Spotify and SoundCloud next week.
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