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Hi Peter! While neither country nor whiskey are my thing, you have written a very enjoyable song that even this non-country fella can enjoy - it just flows so well (metaphor alert) like a hand in a glove. Good work! Andrew D PS I let the tape keep rolling and also loved the vid of your live work on ‘The long road home’. Playing for people to dance to is such a great joy for a musician.
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Ray, That's very kind and appreciated. Thanks from both of us. Bob
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Mario, Absolutely beautiful. An appropriate title - thanks for the inspirational musical experience!
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After we put the monitors back on the shelf we much enjoyed it!  Awesome! This could be a bonus track off The Rolling Stones’ Blue and Lonesome album. The write up for the song was quite enjoyable. Hated to come to "the end." The solo guitar RT sounded great - never a small feat to choose the "right" one for a production. Your friends fit nicely in too. The bass nailed the shuffle. We hear a fine mix all around. Two thumbs up from us - blues via a shuffle are so good - always. Keep blues alive! J&B
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Man, you are a master of all BiaB productions .... have we said that before? Finding the "right" for your production solo RT's is not an easy task. No doubt it takes a lot of auditioning and perhaps some comping. The great build takes the listener nicely through the multiple moods. Great mix too. Well done! J&B
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Cool! Not often that we hear any Dixieland on the forum. We were listening to Tuba Skinny just the other day. You captured the vibe very well! J&B
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Pete, a song that I can relate. Like you said for demo purposes a synth vocal is OK, however I would like to hear you sing this one. Great mix If I were to put this in a play list it would be right before "Take This Job and Shove It" Super song Thank you Mario, glad you could relate lol I will admit that Take This Job And Shove It was a bit of an influence on this one! Pete
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Well, that was a great listen Ron, it bounced along and had me tapping my desk. Great lyrics as well, well performed all round. Much enjoyed. Pete THANKS, Pete! "Tapability" is exactly the reaction we were looking for. Glad you enjoyed your listen!
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Janne, an outstanding song. Super groove and arrangement That synth vocal was so real sounding that if you hadn't said anything I would have thought it was a human. Super mix PS - I did a song in 2015 about a friend whom drank himself into a nursing home at the age of 50 and died from drinking a few years later. If interested it is on Soundcloud and called Demon. So yes it can happen to anyone. Thanks Mario for your super positive review of my song I enjoyed your song Demon very much, a great song but a sad message. Janne
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J'utilise Band in a Box depuis la version 2006, donc depuis près de 20 ans ! S'il était relativement facile à maitriser à l'origine, je pense comme toi que c'est devenu une usine à gaz, de plus en plus difficile à utiliser en dehors de son usage primaire (on saisit des accords et Band in a Box génère un arrangement). J'ai par ailleurs l'impression qu'il est de plus en plus "buggé". Je fais en tout cas l'amère expérience de multiples dysfonctionnements avec la version 2025 : voir mes questions récentes sur le forum en anglais : https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=109155&Number=845202#Post845202 https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=109771&Number=851891#Post851891 Mais Band in a Box reste incontournable depuis que PG Music a mis au point les "Real Tracks", ces pistes d'arrangements ou de solos joués par de véritables musiciens qui peuvent s'adapter automatiquement à n'importe quelle grille d'accords et à n'importe quelle tonalité. A ma connaissance c'est le seul logiciel au monde qui propose cette fonction : même Yamaha, qui est en pointe sur le sujet, ne propose que de la batterie pour des arrangements avec instruments réels . Hélas, depuis cette date (2011 sauf erreur), PG Music concentre l'essentiel de ses efforts à créer de nouvelles Realtracks et de nouvelles fonctions, mais néglige beaucoup l'ergonomie du logiciel, qui devient de moins en moins clair et convivial. Bonne musique quand même 🙂 !
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In your picture with the C#, assuming it's enharmonically a Db then it's a flat five on the G7 chord. I could see that being a perfectly normal enhancement for a real artist to play. Elsewhere in your many threads it was mentioned that you cannot control voicings, but you can usually 'fix' such things by several methods including editing and partial regeneration. I will just add that an artist might simply have thought the 7flat five sounded good here. QUESTION: Did you have a melody note in the song file? If for example the melody was Cnatural or D, then I think BIAB would have avoided that C#. I don't think you have commented that you read the article I wrote on the subject of 'wrong' chords, in the Tips and Tricks forum. What did you think of that? Anything to add or change?
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we need an option to specify a SCALE over the chord, not just a chord. At times BB will play nonsense, for example a 'progression' ( which technically it's not, since it's the same chord) is Csus, C, both being the tonic, at times BB plays nonsense on the Csus and thinks it's a dominant chord. To be able to specify the scale, would avoid BB playing any wrong passing notes, wrong auxiliary notes, etc. It gets plenty of cuckoo notes especially over chromatic chords such as secondary dominants or borrowed chords from parallel keys. A simple option to choose what scale to play over any chord, would solve all these maddening problems. I understand this issue. I think I liked your other proposed solution better, to fix the Simpler option. I know you understand music theory so help me understand in your example, what is the scale you would want to limit BIAB to playing in a CSus chord? C Major scale? Is it the Bb you object to? Ok, I can see that, but you would be ok with a Bnatural?
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A catchy pop song reminding me strangely of Beach Boys - sea & water & sunlight create a nice vision, Portugal seems to have been a very inspiring place. Lyrically positive, full of light and love, I liked especially "‘Cause all the storms and floods will be/Nothing more than scenery/As long as I can ever be/ Here and by your side" The chord progression is enjoyably full of summer. The guitars are tinkling nicely. The bass is very tight. Great vocals, sounding bit muddy is the only thing not to my taste. Janne
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The first lines are important both in a book and in a song, and the start here is very inviting: "They say you can't judge a book, by looking at it's cover/And I can tell you right now, she was no ordinary lover". And I like to mention also the insightful "In this world full of noise, her silence spoke/No need for words, they just provoke", not so many lines but very much idea. Great vocals, I really enjoyed your duet, so calming. The band sounds very pleasant, the rumba guitar sets the right tone, Marty's bass creates the organic flow of the rhythm and Dave's guitar work is once again phenomenal. Janne
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Tom, loved those backing tracks. Outstanding vocal. Great arrangement Super mix A weird song but I loved it.
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Ray, loved the concept. Super backing tracks. Your bass playing is excellent. Like others I did have difficultly with the vocal. I really liked the Mellotron sounds. I think with a little polish, mostly on the vocal, you will have a dynamite song. PS - I have used Melodyne exactly the same way.
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aSom, an outstanding arrangement. Super strings! The synth vocal is very good. Super mix. A really good song.
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James, nice backing tracks. I agree with the others about the vocal, i.e. to loud and bassy. Clean that up and you will have a masterpiece.
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It's one reason why I use MIDI instead of real tracks. BiaB picks the chord inversion, which might be fine, but not what I want. If I export the MIDI song, I can go to a sequencer or DAW, and make what I think is the very good output of BiaB and turn it into something that is ready for prime time, excellent. Insights and incites by Notes ♫
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<...snip...> It is and that's why so many people still use MIDI and plug-ins. RTs give a quick and very good cut, but one's rather restricted in what one can do with them. MIDI allows much more control and tuning<...> I mostly use MIDI and a hardware sound module instead of plug-ins. Why hardware? 1) There is no noticeable latency (I think the average is about 5ms, or the time it takes sound to travel 6 feet). 2) Hardware synths store their sounds in ROM. Soft synths have to create the sound for each and every note as they are playing, which is why the latency). But to keep the latency shorter, they cut corners. Stored in ROM, the sound can be both more realistic and more nuanced. But of course, that depends on the synth manufacturer. But whether you use soft or hardware synths, MIDI is thousands of times more editable than recorded audio. I admit, the Real Tracks sound great. But, IMO, with a good synth, the sounds can be 95% as good as the RT, and with the increased editing ability of MIDI, the final song can be much, much better. Insights and incites by Notes ♫
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Just as an FYI, if you have BIAB 2025 version, that feature is now under Edit, Chords, Chord Substitution (Choose Your Own or Auto Generated).
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First I loved the vocals, then a suitable change in rhythm, skillfull guitar solo with excellent sounds, back to sensual vocals, what more can you ask for a hit song? Maybe an old fashioned audience digging this kind of songs that would be hits in last century. [quote=Brno] Thank you for listening and writing the very positive review that is appreciated by us three. And yep, it is a boomer song. 😀 J&B
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Great to hear that you are back up and running man ! Sorry it took so much work for you to get back working again, but thanks for letting us know. - Jay
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Thank you all for clarifying the matter. Nomi
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Alan, As Janice & Bud say, this song is truly worthy of this showcase. The chord progression is fantastic and matches this RT style very well. Perhaps because of it, the generated guitar solo is also wonderful and melancholic. Enjoyed my listen a lot. Best regards. Shigeki Adachi
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