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"I thought we were more social But I was wrong I hoped we were no predators But I believed in a lie Do we want to make a difference or let it be?" Excellent write as evidenced by the above. The mashup of styles works very well in expressing the tension in the world these days. The mix was obviously a lot of work and the result is excellent. Great use of RTs! Your vocals are powerful, John, (uh, we meant Hans 😉) Hopefully there will be enough of us who want to make a difference! Well done! J&B
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Floyd, Heartbreakingly beautiful... Exquisite lyrics and vocal. Love the piano. You play so well. Yes, that solo is perfect, as is the pro-mix. All the tracks work. You are the master! Bob I completely agree with Bob and I couldn't have said it any better. Yes, you are the master. Loved it Much appreciated, Mario...
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Amber’s lead and harmony with you are also pure as the light. This is lovely in sound and spirit, Dan. The piano and cello are stellar too. Merry Christmas! J&B
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J&B&P... A Good Balanced write. Nice job of allowing each side to pick their lines. That's a hard thing to do. Peter's lines are nicely balanced, too! With a nice bite. Janice is her Always-Pro self with the added spice of Fun - where she is always at her best. Do we even have to talk about Bud's mixes anymore? We just need a stamp [mix]Perfect[/mix] fj
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B.D. Trying to picture drunk Solaria... Fun tune. Well composed and produced. Neat spoken parts. I guess my critical comment would be... that spoken verses have good amount of raspiness and punkyness to connect to narrative, but choruses are too sweet for someone with such bottle issues. In any case, easy going cool tune. Thank you for sharing. Misha. "Drunk Solaria" ... good title for a future song  Thanks for listening and for your suggestions, Misha. I actually thought about it too, but decided to have the clean chorus as a contrast, like a dialog between the (drunk) girl and her (irrational) conscience. But you have a good point ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif)
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Cool song and video! We were in the right mindset for it too, having listened to Larkin Poe performing the Peter Gunn theme last night. 😊 Excellent BiaB session folks with good guitar and organ solos. Stay safe, Agent Wao! J&B
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I have no idea how this occured. I was simply using F5 to tweak some BASS RTs (that is probably irrelevant) and somehow I did something that has changed the Drum track window to read 1152 SILENCE. If I click on those words in the Tracks box it tells! me that I have the correct drum track installed. Go figure. All attempts to remove 1152 SILENCE and get the Drum track to show or run have failed. I have run out of ideas. Help, I need somebody - -. Ian
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"Used to walk a mile to church cause breakfast there was good past billboards full of lawyers and piles of firewood" "If I moved the beef jerky around the whole town would get mad" You cannot get lines like That from an AI generator. A lesson in songwriting... Terrific tracks. As always. Excellent mix. Of course. BLOWN AWAY by your steel!!!! Your vocals alone should have made you a star. Three words in you go "That's Tom Adams, of course!" Good Music. fj Thanks for all that. I have always considered my vocals the weakest part of my game. However I’m old enough not to care anymore, so I just do it. Again thanks for a great review,Tom
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Y'all Are On Fire. It does Not get better than this. Each of you are at the top of your game here. Wow. Dave - your best guitar ever. Playing and Tone. I'd knock all the knobs off so you can't ever change it. Marty - Butter. Chris - your Blues Rock Writes are true gems - you impress me more with each new one. Your Vocals have never been better - goosebumps. After this 4 minutes, twenty...I wanted more. fj
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That’s a really good country rocker. Love the piano, the whole band, the vocals and the clever write. Enjoyed it! J&B
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Hi, my friends !😍 I have been away from the site for a too long time - no excuses !😎 Anyway, when back I realize there has been a lot of changes fi. I´m not sure what I am to do to get this song of mine posted ? Let us see if I´ll come through with it ? the links should be here: http://soundcloud.com/user-337827005/that-s-so-right?si=0ca1cbac433f4e8295146ae131e04c28&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing http://app.box.com/s/yo13mhgwst7lya0gqi7jb36xqidloupa and the rest of the information is here: That´s So Right (music & lyrics by Norman Wibe) Outside, the weather is cold but inside, of me, my heart is bold ´cause, you, wanted me to woo you Darlin´how much happiness you give me, that is nothin´less than, all, all of you my sweetheart let me hold you tight when you feel allright allright, allright I´ve, so, been longin´ for you darlin´, hope you feel that way too want, you, come so close to me tonight solo let me hold you tight when you feel allright allright, when you feel allright that´s so right ! Cheers Dani STYLE: MOTOR+ INSTROS: Bass: 2358, Elpiano: 2360,Drums: RnB Classic, Guitar 1: 2150 Elguitar, Guitar 2: 1450 AC guitar rhytm, Soloist guitar 3: Brent Country:1707 , Piano Country John: 2022, Vocal Aahs: 3063 Recorded on lenovo ideacentre with mixcraft 9 , rev and comp used !
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What a Nice Song! A marvelous chorus. I love Folky Babu!!!! Your voice is well suited to this style. A perfect group of tracks (and that wonderful bass, of course). Good mix. Exquisite Harmonies. a delightful listen. fj
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The wry sense of humor with the sad situation works very well, Janne. The melody is very emotive. The arrangement is great with more and more friends chiming in and the intensity building. Janice said she was imagining looking through a kaleidoscope in the last verse and chorus. The distorted and swirly guitar sounds were perfect. Oh yeah, and we loved the fiddle entrance after the “you shouldn’t fiddle with fire” line. Very cool! J&B
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It's good to hear your voice again. You have a knack for composing ear-pleasing melodies. Your lyrics have McCartney-esque optimism! Hi Scott. Thanks for having a listen and for commenting. Much appreciated. Although there's a lot of doom and gloom and misery in the world right now, I try to find things to be positive about. Writing songs is one the things that helps me keep my perspective. Honestly, even though I haven't been in the forum so much in recent years, I can't imagine my life without music. I'm forever grateful for that day when I took the plunge back in 2006 and bought BIAB. Thanks again! --Noel
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Nice. Relaxed and relaxing. Nicely mixed.
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Thank you for the tips, Jim and Andrew. Then it's a clear case for me and I'll order the Plus version again this time. Andrew, I could have come up with the idea of the link regarding “Instrumental Studies” myself 😅. I actually know this site, everything is arranged very clearly. But you had already helped me a lot in the chat in December 2022 because something with some Realtracks and the swapping to another drive didn't work 100% - and also a small thing with the Midi-Playback... It's been working since then Everything went really smoothly and I haven't had any problems with it since. You won't forget such competent support and my thanks are still effective today 😉👍🍀 Thank you again and stay as healthy as possible everyone! That is the basis for everything.
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Thanks for sending the file. I'm confused... the log shows download and install of 2024 being run to completion?
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Hi Alan. Wow! That was quite a journey. I love, love, love the lyrics! Such strong imagery that taps into the senses really, really well. And the production is awesome! Very creative and mood enhancing. From start to finish, you had me mesmerised. Terrific music! Terrific songwriting! --Noel
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Jon Thomas, When you navigate to Help > About Band-in-a-Box please report the version and build number that are displayed on the second line of the pop-up window. You should see something like "Version 2024 (1102)". PG Music will need that information to investigate the issue. I'm pretty sure that additional drum tracks generating last might be considered normal operation and PG Music likely may not consider this an issue. However, incomplete track generation on the additional drum track is a issue. I'm confident PG Music will appreciate you identifying this issue and will address it in a future update.
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Hi Scott. You and Robert have pulled out all the stops when creating this piece. The music and production are outstanding. The song's lyrics are highly evocative and thought-provoking. Your music, Robert's words and singing and an excellent mix sit so well together. I enjoyed listening. --Noel
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Not enough dark rock songs here, I'm really glad you fill that void. Dark story, no hope: "Pray to your patron saints/Of chaos, greed, and destruction" Intriguing chord progression and the acoustic picking brings it nicely forward. Good classic sounding chorus. Very good use of guitars, really powerful ones starting before purgatory. You have the best rock voice on this forum, I enjoy it thoroughly, very nice rise from low to high. Janne
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A western guitar version? Ha!  Cool arrangement!
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Another good song! Well written, and man, love the vocal! The fills are very effective, nice playing, and I love the way you are panning them. Good stuff! Dave, THANKS for the listen and your thoughts on the fills. I'm a less-is-more first guy and was concerned the panning fills might be too much. But then again, I thought they sounded cool in the context of a disorienting rainstorm. Glad they (and the song) worked for you! There's nothing to say that hasn't already been said: good vocals, good song, good production with some cool ideas. Keep up the good work! B.D., thanks for the listen and encouragement! The bar around this forum is ridiculously high, which is good motivation to try to keep my stuff to the requisite quality. Ron, You are making a fan out of me. Everything about this is good. Excellent punkish-Pop write. The BAND is perfect. Terrific Pop vocal, too. Not everyone can pull that off. (not many) Great use of BIAB. The combination of bass & drums is Superb. (How are you processing your drums?) I'm glad you came back around. I am thoroughly enjoying the Music you create. fj Floyd, thank you for the generous comments! The vocalist (Dusty) has great pipes but also a nuanced musical touch. I love everything he does. Drums and percussion are generally the only BiaB instruments I process. The drums are processed through a Studio One effects chain titled "S1 Drum Group", consisting of a multiband equalizer and a multiband compressor. The magic is in the compressor settings. I like the way it makes the upper frequencies pop without sizzling, and gives the toms more depth. (These are my imprecise interpretations of what I hear). Once I put this chain on the drums, I'll generally adjust the drum track level until the snare sets about right in the mix, and if everything else in the kit sounds good I'm done. Thanks again for the input. Am having a blast with everyone on the forum... Hi, Ron. Fun song. Catchy and poppy. Clever write, with some great lines. My favorite: You wander down the one-way street You find it going west not east Of course, if you're "caught out in the rain", you're on foot so it doesn't really matter if the street is one-way, does it?  I enjoyed this one a lot! David, thanks for the listen, so glad you liked it! My lyricist, being a big fan of lyrical ambiguity, will seldom interpret his lyrics, so I do it myself: The pedestrian is walking to the train station, which is to his east. But he is disoriented by the rain, and realizes the street he is on is NOT the one going east to the train station, it is going west, and he is lost. At least that's the way I story boarded it in my head. I may do that dang video yet. Ha!
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Another beautiful Christmas song, Dan (and Amber). Beautifully sung (a bit too much "hollow" to the reverb). The orchestration is nice. I did not care for Sound of the opening acoustic. It's phase-y-ness actually sounds similar to artifacts from an "extracted" track. It's swirl-i-ness (I'm making up words) runs into the vocals a bit (these are opinions, of course). fj Floyd, Dave, etc. I remixed the track and killed most of the reverb on Amber and the 12 string...I think it's much better...it sounded "phasey" because the tracks were extracted but I found the original tracks and used them...thanks guys for your very constructive suggestions...Dan
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Ask sales and support questions about Band-in-a-Box using natural language.
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RealBand 2024 is Here!
There are over 30 new features to RealBand 2024, including 256 available tracks, 32 VSTi/DXi synth instances, modern color scheme for some windows, Playable RealDrums support, new arrow buttons to change the current time, chord symbols to display in the Track window, 48 tracks to display in the Mixer, the ability to hide any extra masters or auxes in the Mixer, improved handling of VU levels in the Track window, better VU levels display when recording to mono tracks, song preview in the StylePicker, the ability to initiate track generation from the StylePicker, and much more!
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We're over the moon to announce that the latest Band-in-a-Box® 2023 for Mac Build 707 is compatible with macOS Sonoma!
Refresh your Band-in-a-Box® 2023 for Mac today with this free update to resolve visibility of notation in the Notation Window, apply smoother use of notation features, update to the Drums VU meter, and add the newest version of the DAW Plugin (5.5.13).
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Revisit: Eyes on Success featuring PG Music Inc., Band-in-a-Box®, and the Updated JAWS Script
In the past, Eyes on Success featured an episode that discussed our company history and Band-in-a-Box® program with Tobin, our chief development officer, including how Band-in-a-Box® is even more accessible with the help of their JAWS screen reader scripts!
Later on this month, Eyes on Success will be releasing an episode that features Gudrun Brunot talking about her new tutorials about how to use Band-in-a-Box® with JAWS.
It's a great idea to pair the two episodes together!
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User Tip: How to add drum fills without changing any other tracks
MarioD has shared some great advice when it comes to adding drum fills without changing any other tracks in your song:
There have been a number of questions asking how to add drum fills without changing any other tracks in a song. This is especially important if one is holding a chord for a few measures and wants to add a drum fill prior to the next chord. The following is how to accomplish that:
1-get the instruments/tracks to play like you want but don't worry about the drums for now.
2-generate the song.
3-freeze all tracks
4-unfreeze the drum track
5-add your fills where you want them
6-generated the song again - note this will only generate the drum track and not the frozen tracks
7- when you get the drums like you want them freeze the track
Have your own program tip to share? Post it on our Tips & Tricks forum!
Review - Band-in-a-Box® 2023 for Windows is Overflowing with Features!
Dennis posted his very thorough Band-in-a-Box® review recently, where he dives into some of the new features added with version 2023: Sound-Guy's Band-in-a-Box Review
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