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Hi, Marty. Nice, David, and thanks for the explanation of the process. Thanks for listening! What a wonderful club feel, and you picked the perfect singer(s).  Okay, so you got me to listen even more closely by suggesting we don't. (wow, what a predictable consumer, huh?) But i hear no questionable harmonies. The outline is pretty much the same as the demo, so the foundation is stable. But it's doing silliness like: ... Gm7 / Gm7/C | Abmaj7 D7 Dm/F | Gm7 / / | C11 Dbdim Db7 | Fm7 / / | Bb7 / / | Eb Cmaj7 Fdim | Bb7 ... a lot of movement for movement's sake instead of strong harmonic motivation. But it's jazz, right?  You have the perfect lyrics for the mood, and chose a wonderful bunch of players to present the changes. Thanks for that - I appreciate your positive feedback.
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Hi, Arri. I've never heard this song before - thanks for your rendition!
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Thanks so much, Catherine, this is so helpful!!!!!
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I echo Ron's comments. Good listening and nicely arranged.
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Loved your song and your vocal delivery, especially the low notes. Fun instrumentation. You are my favorite bass playing bumpkin!
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Hi, B.D. Well. I'm only two months late to this f***ing party, but I'm glad I got on before the train was gone for good. Excellent production all around - especially the vocal performance.
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Ray, That's very kind - thanks so much from both of us. Bob
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Hi, Laurent. Excellent production. Big band goodness. Ron already mentioned (and you replied) to "streets" and the preferred emphasis on Pairis; same nits here. I guess YouTube doesn't let you swap out videos to make changes. That's too bad - I'm always fiddling with the mix, instruments, and even lyrics even after I've posted my songs. That's one the advantages of using AI vocals. Catchy tune!
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Thanks for letting us know, dimtass! Catherine
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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.
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I can't comment on who is mad and who is not, but I have used these new AI features in BIAB and I can say that they do work. I will add that I don't use them because I have better tools to do stem splitting and transcriptions. I can't tell what you are doing or what you are doing wrong from your description. I do agree the descriptions of the actions are less then intuitive. Which prompts are you using. There is some degree of redundancy in the menu systems. You just have to keep at it. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32666&filename=Screenshot 2026-05-12 162114.jpg)
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George, can you put a copy of the file somewhere (like the video)? Google drive, One Drive, dropbox .. anything? If necessary ZIP it. Dev asked
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Cheers Marty. Glad you enjoyed it. Vic
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Floyd, Thank you - we appreciate that! Bob
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Like the bees in the video, you did a beautiful job. Honey music. Laurent
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I've played mandolins over 60 years now, but never heard it before in bossa nova! You also played it very well! Not an easy task! Over all very refreshing production.
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Hello, When using Soloist to do a guitar solo I'd like to get a DI signal so I can use my own amp settings. Is this possible? I saw something for this in Melodist but not in Soloist. BIAB has so many things it can do. More tutorial videos please. Thanks, Bob
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What a coincidence: I just watched a TV documentary of funk and start experimenting funk with an old cither tune from Finland. I'll post that when ever I'm satisfied with it. I learned that funk is so simple it's very hard to get the right groove into it: with the hit on first in 4/4 and not 2 and 4 as usually. But got the groove!
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Reggae is a style where I always get stuck with the rhythm. Thank you for making me a little less ignorant with your explanations. I see that you're as comfortable with this style as you are with the blues. Bravo to the whole team for the great work. laurent Thank you for the very nice review. We’ve only done five reggae tunes but we do enjoy the genre. We’re happy you liked Bud’s genre explanatory ramble. Much appreciated, J&B
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Great to hear a country waltz for awhile. I like your composition, production and specially your vocals and those harmonies seldom heard nowadays. FM Radio play ready.
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This is the best free analog synth VST that I have ever heard. It emulates and expands on the Oberheim OB-X analog synth. It has a ton of excellent patches. No programing skills are needed. It may be the only analog synth you will ever need. I really like it. Notes: 1- If you are going to use it for commercial use you must buy it. If you don't make money on your song(s) then it is free to use. 2- It is not a GM synth. https://www.discodsp.com/obxd/
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This sounds like it could indeed be a BiaB backing track. The video is AI gobbledygook.
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didn't read everything here, etc, but I thought, ok forget trying to build a drum track IN bb, exactly the way I want. Instead, just mute all the other tracks and set bb to play only the drums, say a 16 bar phrase, with A and B substyle change every 8 bar, for 3 choruses, THEN drag the drum track as a wav file and import it in the DAW, and I use whatever phrase AND/OR fill, by chopping up the file. I thought I would get at least a few different fills. It failed miserably. It plays the same two stupid fills, no matter how many choruses I had set. And wasted 15 minutes (that's a long time here) for nothing. Tried the same with the Logic Drummer, it blew everything out of the galaxy. In less than two minutes I had a full drum track for my project, with as many variations I wanted, with fills that not only are never the same, but that can be fine tuned until kingdom come by just turning a knob and moving a slider up or down. Oh yeah, I know, some realdrums have more substyles. Not for the style I wanted, metal or hard rock, even with the ultrapack +, my search in the stylepicker only returned about 7 results for the chosen tempo 65 BPM, ev16th, etc Well at least I know this other bb experiment doesn't work, that way I'll never wonder about it again. BB is only good for tracks that are 1 minute or less. Otherwise a ton of fiddling (that often bear zero results) is required.
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+1 But I think a better solution would be to "archive" - hide styles that user don't want within software. This will take guesswork when checking "what add ons I have" Add ons checker could index those archived items and just display them in a separate column. So you know if you are missing anything or not.
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I am usually pretty harsh about some of BB's 'almost there, but not there yet' features. But I have to say, I am very impressed with the AI Lyrics feature. I don't let anything 'write' parts for my music, except textures, (for what is the 'musically moral' difference if I pay a bass player and give him a chord chart and tell him to play me a bassline for my track, or I get a similar result from BB ? I still wrote all the chords, melodies, form, concept of the song, etc. I am still the author.). However English is my second language and I would not trust myself writing lyrics, in fact I mostly write instrumentals. But now it's different. I find the Lyrics feature hugely helpful in finding synonyms etc, and so far I just scratched the surface. Just writing that because I usually am quite critical about the program, because I know it has huge potential but it also has many shortcomings, but I also wanted to say something positive about it when it's due. So, well done, PG Music. When BB does something well, I am always impressed.
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