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Ya, One Note Samba actual is more than one note! 
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Nice tune and vocals. Well you know, I'm sure this happens very often, but if you're not famous it doesn't matter. Cheers Mike B.
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Ha! thanks David for listening, not being your thing I appreciate it even more. Cheers Mike B.
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Welcome Izzy. I think it's a cool hip-hop song with some really interesting elements. Lots of good lyrics (I would probably make 3 songs from these lyrics alone) and even if you don't have a typical hip-hop voice, it sounds authentic. A pretty good start to the forum, I think  ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif)
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Another great song to the Greatest Generation!! Well done. So glad we didn't have to land on Normandy today. People would just start crying and have a protest riot, and then break out into tears again when they couldn't log into Facebook. Meanwhile, we would all be living on a potato farm.
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<…snip…> Music does not pay as well as some other things even if you are Taylor Swift. <…> Not sure about Ms. Swift, she seems to be doing all right. Very few musicians make the 'big time', but then very few of any business make 'the big time'. I was a Cable TV Field Engineer for a few years, and it paid much better than music. But I wasn't as happy as I am being a musician. By analyzing what the market in my area desires, and fulfilling that need, I have never been rich, but I've never been poor either. My house, in a nice section of town, is paid off. I did that in 10 years. I don't have luxury items, but I also have zero debt. My small, music business, pays the bills. Life is way too short, and at an early age, I decided to get the most joy and happiness I can, and the least amount of stress and irritation. Other than 2 different day-jobs while testing what it is to be normal, I have, and continue to make my living doing what I would do for free — making music. I'm having a very happy life, so I call that a success story, even though I never made 'the big time'. Each of us has our own tastes and desires, so my life might choices might not fit anyone else. <…snip…>We never played many true covers. Some covers yes but very different from the original. We never had any more difficulty selling originals than covers. I think that was because of the really exceptional musicians I got to play with and the fact we were serious about entertaining. <…> Good for you. I've played with some incredible musicians that were entertaining, but worked one gig per week. Perhaps because I'm in a small market area, nobody is hiring originality. Analyze your local market, see where the demands are, then supply it. In my area, the gigs that offer steady work are hiphop, country, or pop/rock — all cover song gigs. There is a one day per week jazz venue, and a few that cater to Caribbean or Latin American music. But the gigs are not steady, and there are many more musicians trying for those gigs than there is a demand for them. I play pop/rock, probably 80% covers, done our way, sometimes close, sometimes not. We also mix in country, Caribbean, Latin American, blues, jazz, and a few other genres. Variety seems to work for us, and with over 650 songs, we can adapt our music to the audience of the day (or night). There is more than one way to make money doing music, what works for one person might not work for another and what works for one area might not work for another. What is the supply and demand where you want to gig? Notes ♫
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Noel, A really beautiful song! The vocals on this are especially good, and you've really knocked it out of the park. I love positive, upbeat songs like this. The entire production sounds fabulous. Great job!!
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Chay, Thanks so much. Bob
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Excellent pop production, BD. I too thought it was a male vocal but what do we know? Vic Thank you very much, Vic. As I mentioned above, Natalie sings in her lowest alto range, which is pretty deep for a woman. I guess young men can sound similar down there.
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There was an issue with Reaper not handling wma files well as it was using ffmpeg decoder but the very helpful guys over at Reaper implemented the Windows Media Foundation codec to fix this issue after I asked them and I did some testing, now Reaper plays wma direct accurately on old or new hardware. You will need the latest version from 6.57 It now plays fine on a 1.9GHz Celeron Win7 laptop with a 5400rpm HD. Thanks to the incredibly helpful guys at Reaper this shows what I have been saying about Biab/BBPlugin/RealBand playing source files direct that seemed to fall on deaf ears around here. All this would allow Biab to be used as a Live Arranger that will be a game changer, the Reaper guys saw this, I just hope the Biab guys will also now see. VIDEO: Biab-Live-Arranger-WMA.mp4Users must not read posts that I have been posting for years n years with actual examples. I have no idea why they don't just try these things out for themselves, rather than waiting for PG's confirmation and approval of the possibility. JJazzLab works as a Live Arranger using keyboard midi styles the same thing Biab could have done back in 2008. Users need to look more into these things, experiment themselves, be more supportive and encouraging, anyone can download and try n try n try Reaper for FREE to see how it instantly plays wma from/to any point in any wma file with seamless transitions. Reaper doesn't require anyone to be a brain surgeon to use it, but how many have tried it to give ideas how Biab could work ?????????
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Where are all these Linux users now that wanted a Linux version of Biab ? There used to be so many posts back then compared to how it is now, pretty dead  Maybe if there was a Linux version there would be more sales, more users ? At least get it to work under Wine or better still get the Biab JUCE plugin/plugin standalone working as an all in one self-contained crossplatform Win Lin Mac.
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BB has more than a few ideas all it's own. It calls things in what could be considered by some to be non standard terms. Questions have to be ask for some one new to figure it out. BB will never be construed as intuitive, but when in Rome... At some point I guess everyone just understands "it is what it is". Confusing yes, perplexing yes, bewildering perhaps. It is a very useful piece of software that takes a bit of time to understand and even longer to find the many many ways it can be used. We should have been prepaired for this, we were told... "There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure 'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings Ooh, it makes me wonder Ooh, makes me wonder" Cheers M8 Billy
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i keep on forgeting to post this wish..but working in rb today it came up again........... i like to use ctrl T to work in the rb tracks view that isnt clluttered with lots of icons...But it would be nice to decide which rb icons and thus features i want in the less cluttered ctrl T view. ie so i can custom set up the icons i want in the less cluttered view. so im not switching ctrl T views often. for example there are icons in the many icons view i would only rarely use. maybe a special button on less cluttered view called icons and when clicked a list of icons pops up so a user can decided his/her icons used ?? dont get me wrong...i was reminded today of the many many features of RB which of course means lots of user feature choices and thus icons. i just would like to dismiss the icons i rarely use. in summary the user decides on icon rows needed and hides others. so the maximum amount of real estate is occupied by tracks. let me say ..so im not taken in the wrong way...today i tried another daw to see if it had any features i might find usefull....and realised very quickly just the opposite...i would lose various features that rb has....i would just like to see this minor wish implemented so im not flitting tween the two ctrl T track views. just an idea....cos i do the my work mostly in tracks view. happiness. om 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
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It is easy to become fearful and irritated by new ways of doing things. I think the older we get the more change becomes uncomfortable. There is good reason to fear some techonology, atomic weapons come to mind. AI has some issues. Can AI kill off all the humans? Perhaps. Is that a big deal or any great loss? Likely not. We are most likely much less important than we would like to believe. We will be able to play and create music fora long time into the future. We will also find it harder to monatize and collect on those efforts as time goes by. AI will play and create music and at some point will be most likely be indistinguishable from human made music. Many of us have concerns about ethical issues but I fear we are in the minority. Good, bad, right, wrong and ethical issues tend to disapear as distance from shore increases...lol Riders On The Storm ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/FsgnNa1.jpg) Cheers Billy
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What exactly is "classic rock guitar tone" in the first place?
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Amen brother. Spoken like a true guitar player.
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That is epic in scope ... the composition, the arrangement and the mix. It sets up a great soundstage on our monitors. All the instrumentation is standout but the organ is exceptional. Stadium filling! J&B
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I played the source files for that RealTrack and it has a lot of reverb. This is why Direct Input only guitars are the way to go as you can add any FX you like to them, and rather than having 2 versions that take up more hard drive space, as down the track PG will have a lot of RealTracks.
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Thanks again. There is debate what is a chord, but some say, that for example G6 and D9 aren't new chords, just variations of the same chord. I found a lot of two chord songs. Here is one list: https://www.guitarbased.com/2-chord-songs/
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There seems to be a lot of interest in K-Pop in the US. The music reminds me a lot of the music put out by US boy bands of the eighties and nineties. Groups like New Kids on the Block and NSync recorded a lot of well crafted and produced hit pop songs. The K-Pop bands are presenting pop songs that are just as good today. J-Pop (Japan Pop) is another genre that is gaining traction in the US. You make a really interesting comparison of KPOP to boy bands from the 80s and 90s. I can totally hear the similarities now that you mention it. A lot of those older American boy bands also had intricate dance routines and concepts around their image. And the high quality of the songs is consistent between them. It's cool to see how KPOP is carrying on that tradition with their own unique creative flair. I'll have to check out some JPOP too since you mentioned it's become popular as well.
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Hey Mario. How're you today. Thanks again for listening and writing. I really appreciate it.
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Elliot, Nice 80's Pop Rock track. Good work with the girls. Good mix. Drums are good - hittin' hard. Nice Bass. I thought the guitars could have be slightly louder. And fun.... fj
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Update Your PowerTracks Pro Audio 2024 Today!
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