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Hi Andrew, Well, I wasn’t expecting an instrumental from you, looks like you’ve gone out on a limb, taken a leaf out of Mario’s book and branched into something new. Although I did read in your blurb that instrumentals were what you were mainly producing a while back. A very in depth production and production video, far too intricate for me to do the same. But you’ve created a unique, very atmospheric piece which does capture the essence of being surrounded by a forest. Really well done, kind regards.
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Hi Mario A lovely contemplative piece. Really well produced and constructed. I didn’t realise you were a soprano!! Excellent well done.
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Top song Marty and Dave. Dave seemed to be channeling Gary Moore, so in that vein it is a bit bluesy. Yeah a great write, handled and produced professionally. Great stuff guys, kind regards
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Thank you Scott, glad your liked it and the imagery comment was very much appreciated. Kind regards
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This 18th century poet is lost for words. You have great songwriting sense Izzy, melodically, lyrically and vocally. This is yet another great song, I am so jealous of your talent. Terrific mate.
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How very unhelpful. Good thing I found them a few days ago.
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Hiding in plain sight and waiting for something interesting to happen.
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Andrew, Thank you! We both appreciate the kind words. Bob
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Thanks, It was the Rebuild that fixed it and got rid of them. This was a fresh install, and I didn't realize I needed to rebuild. thank you!
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I enjoyed this! Love the mellow vibe! Calming to listen to. 
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Vic, You are spot on, re: the solo voice's phrasing. I specifically asked the AI for it to be a spoken vocal from the "child" ... and it obeyed me right until about two-thirds into the song, when the "child" started to sing. Try as I might, I could not get a spoken voice all the way through ... the limitations of AI, I suppose. Still ... all in all, I decided to keep the "child" 's voice, because, although inconvenient, the mistake was not (in my view, at least) fatal ... Thanks so much for listening, and for your very kind comments!!!
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@ mario. re not being here much. apologies for not being on here much. the docs have limited me to a very short time each day for the pc/net... due to a loooong rehab after minor surgery. docs have been fantastic.....even played my songs in the hospital when i was conked out...ya know the stuff they give you. i'm starting to feel my old crazy self now....lmao. @Babu. thats very nice of you. the song was a challenge as i'm not american. i just like trying doing various vocal accents. (see songs in my sig.) sometimes people think its different vocalists...bamboozles them. fyi...and for any lurkers out there looking to buy pg packages. on this song i only used pg dx low pc resource plugins. there are lots of neat things one can do with them if one experiments. i suspect lots of new people dont maybe experiment and they bypass these plugins cos they are included free... Babu...thanks soo much for listening...it makes me happy to know in a crazy world i'm giving joy to some people. happiness. om
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Thanks, I'm returning to BIAB after quite a while, and I wasn't aware of playable real tracks. I will investigate this!
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Oh, so glad you chose the latter, Brian. What a wonderful result. Neville was also a great choice. A fine song you two have sewn. From a fine seed of an idea in fertile soil.
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Hello, B.D.Thomas, Birchwood, Janice & Bud, jannesan, Charlie Fogle, vicarn, Scott C, animarorecords, laurent4114, Ezekiel's Storm, dcuny. I sincerely apologise for taking so long to get back to you all and to thank you for having a listen to ‘Take Today.’ A month ago, I ended up in surgery and as a consequence of that, I lost track of this song. Best regards to all and thank you again for visiting this thread. --Noel No need to apologize, Noel. There aren't many things more important than music, but health is certainly one of them. I wish you all the best and a speedy recovery.
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Thank you very much for your comment, Tunemonger! I wasn't sure if there was an issue with this song, but your words reassured me. The idea for the lyrics came to me very naturally, since "dragon" and "dragonfly" are both words from the same family...
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Band-in-a-Box 2026 for Mac Build 1015 is available: https://update.pgmusic.com/support/mpatch/bb2026_mac_update_build1015.pkg Summary of fixes for build 1015 (since 1014) - Fixed: Track panel height resizing could fail or snap smaller on some Mac multi-monitor display arrangements.
- Fixed: Certain styles with accented characters in the style data could lead to a crash in the StylePicker (eg. _LAROSEE, _DACCORD, LAFUMEE).
Summary of fixes for build 1014 (since 1008) - Fixed: Drag and drop to or from the Drop Station could fail when using certain multi-monitor display arrangements.
- Changed: 'Left Toolbar Library menu | Open as embedded panel' now opens the MultiPicker in a full embedded window instead of MultiView (Shift-click now opens in MultiView)
- Fixed: F7 hotkey did not close the MultiPicker if Filter field was active.
- Fixed: Save As Video might not work if Audio rendering was set to individual tracks.
- Improved: Save As Video - Save dialog defaulted to root hard drive and empty filename - now defaults to appropriate filepath.
- Improved: File SaveAsVideoDebug.txt added to Data/avim folder can be used to troubleshoot video creation.
- Fixed: Minor localization fixes and dialog adjustments.
Summary of fixes for build 1008 (since 1003) - Fixed: Chord Sheet navigation could feel sluggish on some systems. It is now much more responsive.
- Improved: Mixer and Tracks Window related updates are more efficient and should feel more responsive.
- Fixed: Possible crash during StylePicker slow rebuild.
- Fixed: Crash could occur when printing from the Lead Sheet.
- Fixed: Stems Splitter Player - hint formatting, localization fixes.
- Fixed: Floating Lead Sheet window would disappear if moved to another monitor.
- Fixed: Embedded Notation or embedded Lead Sheet would be hidden when primary monitor is on bottom and secondary is on top in some versions of macOS.
- Fixed: There could be a blank floating Notation screen or blank floating Lead Sheet screen after clicking on it for the first time after moving it to a different monitor.
- Fixed: When printing Notation or Lead Sheet, there could be several issues such as a tiny chord font, ends of staves not having vertical lines, and other font size/placement problems.
- Fixed: If you previously loaded a Band-in-a-Box file from the root of the drive, and then later tried to save a file to a different location, you would get an error message and the file would not be saved.
- Added: Save XML dialog now has a "Save bends when saving tablature" check box that lets you save bend info.
- Fixed: A few Playable RealTracks did not load (e.g. 057 - Trumpet Jazz Muted SN1033)
- Improved: Prevent overlapping demo playback when auditioning demos from different dialogs.
- Fixed: Possible 'Unable to create plugin_list_MIDI_x64.txt at bootup.
- Fixed: Possible 'Invalid Date Specification' error during StylePicker slow rebuild.
- Fixed: 'TMP*.sty' may appear after slow StylePicker rebuild.
- Fixed: Possible crash at program shutdown related to audio rendering.
- Improved: Audition files (pre-made demos) - improved messages if they cannot be played for some reason.
- Fixed: For some audition files, the 'use internet' setting had no effect.
- Improved: Behavior when one of the solo or band demos for an instrument is missing (message or downloaded if necessary).
- Improved: "RealTracks/Data/Demo Downloads" folder for misc downloaded files (fallback to Band-in-a-Box/Data/DemoDownloads)
- Fixed: Downloaded m4a demo might be invalid and fail to play.
- Improved: Avoid unnecessary demo downloads if file already exists locally.
- Fixed: Empty item in the Patches Demo menu
- Added: Flash message for the Patches tab demos that says what file is being auditioned, or if there is any problem.
- Fixed: Playable RealTracks and Drums online demos would not play.
- Added: Some SynthMaster demos (auditions) were missing
- Fixed: 'Convert Note-based Lyrics to Bar-based' is duplicated in the Edit | Lyrics menu.
- Changed: Hotkey in track button's right-click menu | Track Settings | Solo, changed from Alt+Shift+Z to option+shift+Z
- Added: Some missing strings for localized versions.
- Fixed: Cut off label in Patches dialog.
- Updated: Feature browser, PDF manuals.
Summary of fixes for build 1003 - Fixed: Embedded windows might not receive certain keystrokes depending on cursor position.
- Fixed: Crash if choosing Print Options from Lead Sheet window and then exiting that window.
- Fixed: Crash could occur if there was a floating window onscreen and you added an embedded window.
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I try to change the position of the monitors in the settings... Thanks. On Apple Silicon Macs, there's a bug where monitor displays change after the Mac goes to sleep. The workaround is to reboot. I've been grinding on Apple nearly five years to get this fixed including taking my Studio to the Cupertino mother ship to show engineering this and a couple of other display bugs. Fortunately, Apple World HQ is only two miles away.
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Janice & Bud, Many thanks from both of us. Bob
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Just thinking about why what Andrew mentioned might be happening: It’s been years, but I recall Windows operating system updates sometimes would change my Preferences for sound devices, and cause me to be puzzled for a bit why I had no sound. Thanks Matt. I'll look at this.
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That's a great concept! We have a long interest in trains so we fell right into it. Excellent band and vocals (the double sounds great). One look at the SC waveform and we knew we would like the mix. You never over compress/limit and always leave track breathing room. And, per always, a cool progression. Well done! PS We've written several train based tunes ... fun journeys indeed Thanks J&B - I remember you mentioning the waveform shape on one of my earlier songs - which was a fluke result BTW, but I have remembered that comment ever since, so I always check it out when uploading an early draft. Same with LUFS which other forum members also mentioned. This forum is so cool for people sharing their knowledge. While I haven’t done a lot of train travel, our longest trip was back in 2019 when visiting my daughter and son-in-law who were based in Gwinnett County GA at the time - we caught trains from San Francisco to Seattle then Seattle to Vancouver BC. There is something very therapeutic about train travel! Thanks for listening and commenting! Andrew
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Thanks Andrew, TuneMonger and Mario, Writing english lyrics is always a big challenge for me.
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Strange, we'll look into it.
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Also, I didn't realize that the all the extra apps that originally came with the Everything PAK (Windows) that I purchased many years ago, aren't included on my last purchase for Mac. This means I don't have the chord dictionary (or whateve it's called) to see chord patterns, so I need to look somewhere else.
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