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Janne, after reading your intro I had to view the video. I am an amateur landscape/nature photographer myself and like shooting birds. You got some great shots. Oh yea about the song, it sounded fantastic. Great synth vocals, super backing band, and mix makes this one a favorite song for me. Loved it. Thanks Mario for your positive comment  And very nice to know that you are also a photographer, such a nice activity, I'm sure your photos have the same magical quality as your music maybe birds have inspired your music? Janne
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For those of you who use Sleep or Hibernation on a desktop computer, does that affect the power settings for USB and PCI devices? I mentioned that if I leave my computer on a few hours, my audio output device gets reassigned! I tracked it down to the advanced power settings in Windows Device Manager affecting the driver assignment when they timed out. Everything is unfortunately set on full power now. There is more required to making a permanent fix here, but will this problem happen if I put the computer to sleep overnight?
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I really enjoyed the portraying of your personal paradise by words and music, it is very important to tell about nature (and for the love of it) we still have and which has not yet been destroyed by housing, traffic or industry. "Wind singing through the leaves/And this old heart beats steady where the sky and forest meet." lovely poetry. Great country band, the solo sounds especially nice, very good mix and your vocal is very expressive. Janne
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What a nice tune for the day of rest, no hurry, just calming afternoon while watching slowly transforming cloud shapes at sunset. The instrumentation is superb Mario quality, that ethereal piano sounds very sweet and smooth. The sax has very nice nostalgic tone. Your guitar playing is masterful. Magical chord progression. Jazz that is easy to receive, I just want to immerse myself in the carefree world of your music. Janne
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Hi, Donna here. I am used to using Score-Cloud and have used Sibelius in the past for songwriting. Can I write to a melody line in BIAB using a midi cable from my piano keyboard? And if so, how? In simple language, please. I have BIAB 2026 and have upgraded from a 2015 version. It's a bit different!
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Thanx everyone for those good birthday wishes. Yes I did have a great day. Our tradition is on one's birthday they can so whatever they want to do. So after a few must do chores and exercises I started to scan BiaB styles. I stumbled on one I liked and worked on a back-to-the-basics song. I will put the finishing touches on it soon. My family is throwing me a party tonight, April 11, so it may take awhile to finish the song, i.e. I will need time to sober up! B.D - what the hell is a guitar in tune? Misha, the MIDI force is always with me! Thanx again my friends, I appreciate all of you.
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Wow, you have turned the old melody into your own unique style and it works beautifully, magic! Enjoyable playing and lovely guitar tones, the stars twinkle in different colors. Relaxing backing band. Janne
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"NO PAYMENTS, JUST PAVEMENT FOR ME SO LONG BABY" you surely know the spicy sauce of the blues, old standards meet Merritt high standard. Peter knows how to roast the strings of his guitar, amazing work! Bud takes care of the high quality of mixing the ingredients and Janice serves the meal with her charming self-confience - every time, not just once in a blue moon. Blues may not be my genre, but Janice & Bud & Peter is Janne
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A good idea, but as stated above, getting the info may be difficult in most cases. Should PG staff be included? Cash would say: “Everyone I know goes away in the end.” Clapton: “Would it be the same if I saw you in heaven?” Dylan: “It feels like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door.” James Taylor: “I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.” Kansas: “All we are is dust in the wind.” Willie: “Roll me up and smoke me when I’m gone.” Ben Franklin: "Nothing is certain except death and taxes." But wait. Why can’t you be cryogenically preserved then thawed and restored in 200 years? 
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In 3/4, adding real tracks doesn't work because they play too fast. I haven't seen or figured out a way to do "cut time" in 3/4, if that would even work if it was possible to do. In 6/8 the styles are just plain "wrong". I have had some success by running the RTs at half-time. I've done this too occasionally with pretty good results
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OK, it literally brought tears to my eyes. I have been studying vocal performance for the past 4 months. So for us old guys just trying to keep up, what we are hearing is a example of the CCM pedagogy ( Contemporary Commercial Music) which emerged in academia in the early turn of the millennium. Check out this book I am currently reading, Edited by Matthey Hoch. https://www.nats.org/So_You_Want_To_Sing_Book_Series.html
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I owned the Studio Project VTB1 up til it died over a year or two ago - it is now in my dead and unused equipment closet. I had it for about 5 - 10 years. ... and gifts on loan from God. They're built like tanks! What died? I had a power supply die (replaced), but otherwise it's been a great little unit. I just checked, it is no longer in the closet. I must have purged it to trash over the past year. I have been doing a lot of that lately. Fact is I do believe I purchased both the pre-amp and mic based on your recommendation so many years back. The combo worked well for maybe a decade or more, but as I said the preamp just quit on me one day. I was a pleasently surprised it could be so easily replaced by gear I already had with my MOTU. So I never looked back or thought about replacing the pre-amp. Far fewer adjustments available, but I never really learned how to optimize the VTB1 so it just was bit over complicated for me. The MOTU I just turn on and adjust gain.
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Hi Mario, Laurent, David, Janice and Bud and Scott, Thanks for your very nice comments and waitings for my replies... I think I nearly every time come with excuses, but you know? I must be too busy every day and before you know it's sleeping time. Life is too short for busy people... Or I can't organize very well... Hans, first you sent to the dictionary. Second you had me from the first measure. Super song with a great vocal, backing band, and mix. I forgot to mention those outstanding lyrics. IMHO this is your best to date. Loved it Hi Mario, my best one so far!!! It seems like you keep saying that to me lately. But I like that you say it. It gives me the feeling that I'm heading in the right direction. Thanks! This is a song that raises many questions and sounds very good. Laurent Hello Laurent, the way you say this sounds almost poetic... Thanks! Great song Hans! It kind of reminds me of the guy who wrote Year of the Cat. Your voice sounds very similar in places! Year of the Cat Hi David, well that sound more than ok for me. I liked that songs a lot (still!), although my favorites were the BeeGees. Better harmonies. Thanks for that compliment, because his voice is much higher than mine now, but you haven't noticed that ;-) You are channeling John Lennon again for us here. 😊. And that is wonderful. We loved the lyrics and could relate as life does seem more precious the older we get. You sound great, and the band supports you well. Your excellent use of BiaB tracks is a showcase within the User Showcase! We enjoyed the video, especially the sweet dog and cat scene and the chickadee at the ending. Great remake! J&B How sweet of you! Yes, and of course I have to do my very best not to let John be forgotten. Judging by your reaction, I’ve succeeded again! This is indeed the kind of writing you start writing as you get older. Then the future isn't the most important thing, but the memories are. And thanks for that BiaB compliment. I’ve never looked at it that way. Though little things like the dog, cat, and bird. Mine is just like a zoo too. Not always to my wife's delight... Very pretty song Hans. Cool chord progressions. Super vocal and lyric. Excellent mix. Well done Hi Scott! You are always present with my songs. Thanks for that. And thanks also for your kind compliments on this song! I can sleep well now, I can assure you!
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Hi Shigeki, When starting my listen to your song, my heart stood still (for a nano second). My Chinese isn't what it was. Heartbroken! A nice title for this wonderful song. Great vocals and also great pianoplay, or in Chinese: 人聲和鋼琴演奏都很出色。 This is truly a lovely waltz. And you can't often say that about this genre. Were some of the other instruments from BiaB, or did you use them from your DAW? I do that regularly. Very well done! Hans
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Hi Noel, What a surprise! At first, I didn't read that you had used AI vocals, so I was expecting a beautiful song with your singing. And then I had to start over, checking all the sources and your post on the forum again. And now I'm listening to it for the third, uh, fifth time. Just like Ray, I'm not such a fan of AI vocals, but you chose the right vocals for this very good song. I think it's great in every way; the song/melody is very good/strong. I also like the chord progressions and the lyrics! The choruses are so beautiful; that part "Watch me, Just watch me, And see me fly" is great to sing along to. I can do that now, and the other parts too! Noel, great song. I wish you could sing it like that too. Are you thinking about giving it a try sometime? Hans
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Hi Andrew, these songs remind me of English pop songs from the 70s. I can't remember the names of the bands or singers anymore, only the feelings I had about them. They were special, their stories too, and the vocals were typical of that style. And you imitate that in an amazing way! Very well done, the lyrics too! You either love it or you hate it! Well, I love it... right now ❤ Hans
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1. Yes 2. Yes 3. Yes 4. Yes 5. 230.87 GB
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OK, here's what I did. Fairly straight-forward once one knows. I set the song to two choruses and unfolded to get a one-chorus song of a double-chorus length. I did copy-special from...to create two new double choruses, inserting the bars and transposing up each new chorus by two semitones. I then did a Transpose from...to to transpose the third chorus up a further semitone. I set the chorus start in the main control to the second chorus, and I set the length as that of the second chorus, which greys out the third chorus. I set the chorus repeats to a multiple. I used Edit->Song form to set the third chorus as a tag. I removed the turnaround from the end of the tag and tidied the song ending. That seems to have worked out pretty well.
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Thanks Bob, K-Dub Ya, TuneMonger, B.D.Thomas for the comments. Laurent
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Great work Mario, the voices are fantastic. It sounds like a movie soundtrack. Laurent
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Chay, LOL! We will do our best to stay out of your dreams... Thanks so much. We both appreciate the kind words. Bob
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John, Great song and great vocals by John. Love the big open mix. Sounds excellent! Bob
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Hey, Herb. You craft your melodies very well: easy to follow, easy to remember, and your lyrics are universal yet sound fresh. Your relationships, personal, spiritual, and the countryside you live in, sounds genuinely personal and conversational that puts the heart into your songs. Your musicianship and use of Band in a Box outstanding. I also listened to "Give Me the Country Please," also very well crafted and easy to relate to, as I've lived in cities and am in a half-city half-rural area...lots of hills, trees, at the edge of a city of 58,000, but far more peaceful than Phoenix! Anyway, I admire how you make your music which is very well done. John
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Sounds really good. Would be interested in the mixing & mastering process and what audio effects plugins are used, and how AI is utilized as well. Hi all, If anyone is curious, I am happy to share the tools I have been using and how they fit into my workflow. Joanne Hi Jeff Thanks for the interest. In summary 1. I recorded my original song using the appropriate tempo, key and Band-in-a-box style and exported to MP3 2. Imported the MP3 into Suno (Pro version) 3. Produced a series of Suno covers until I found something I liked . Used female AI vocals and instructed it to use the exact key and vocal nuances as in the sample 4. Exported all stems to wav files 5. Dragged all stems to Realband, muted lead vocal 6. Recorded my vocal 7. Did any editing of glitches in instrumental and backing vocals in realband. Particularly at the start and end. 8. Cleaned, tuned and fixed timing issues with my vocal using Melodyne. 10. Passed my fixed vocal through Kits.ai (pro subscription) using a model trained on my own voice 11. Exported all stems from realband 12. Used cryo-mix ai (pro subscription) tool to mix and master the final file. I think the preset I used was “radio ready”. Hope this helps
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Ah knew right away you weren't talking about The Blues. Man, you sure DO have some use for these blues. Whatr a great tune. Hey, not all Chicago Blues is played in Chicago. Your harp sounds great. Fun changes and a good mix make this a jump-along song. Excellent choice of vocalist too. Thanks, Marty! You sang two dark blues songs of mine (for which I'm eternally grateful), I should've asked you to sing this uplifting one to compensate. You would have been perfect, I don't know why I didn't think about it. Well, the next positive blues song I write, it's yours.
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