This thread is for suggestions regarding the Tracks view. This is for specific suggestions only, not general comments. There are a few ideas extracted from the main user interface enhancements thread ------------ robertw: Here's how the Track view could look The Left side is an information/controls for the current track selected. https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=838328#Post838328 <tracks_window_mockup> Rustyspoon: There should be a big "+" to add new tracks on demand. Right click > Delete Track > confirm. (3 clicks) Track zoom should be achievable by "pulling" edge of the track. With option to either zoom in / out dynamically (all tracks), or individual tracks. Volume node editing in T.View there is a new request for this in wishlist. Rustyspoon: - Play marker that defines the playback start point. - Volume node editing (automation) - Track headers to include a minimum of: ARM - for audio recording FX, PAN AudioTrack: Tracks Window Scrolling Improvement Would it be possible to add the use of 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' keys (or similar) to achieve scrolling the Tracks window to view other tracks. Currently, the only way to achieve vertical scrolling is to use the narrow scroll bar on the RH side of the form.
This thread is for suggestions regarding the Piano Roll view. This is for specific suggestions only, not general comments. There are a few ideas extracted from the main user interface enhancements thread Jim Fogle Please set up the Piano Roll window so the keyboard displays the drum kit sound name associated with each key of the Pitch Selector keyboard. Presently the Pitch Selector keyboard displays note names such as C3, C4 or C5. Rustyspoon: 1) Default tool should be a pen tool, not a "selection" tool. 2)There are no UI buttons for selecting one or the other. Holding a current two button shortcut (Ctrl+Shift) to draw is just wrong. You should not hold anything to draw. 3)Full length overlay guides, horizontal and vertical running all the way from piano roll to the note when drawing. Current little green arrows do not cut it. 4)Full cursor on playback 5) A choice of free hand drawing note length. Not just preselecting duration. 6) Adopt a "freehand" move tool, not a separate up down and right. Holding mouse button should grab a note or selection and user should be able to move/drag it anywhere until you let go of the mouse button. 7)Better graphics for Pen / Delete tools. Currently they are too large and blurry. 8)User defined note color. (maybe this is possible already) 9)On the upper right, Help and Video buttons are covering other stuff. Should be fixed.
This thread is for suggestions regarding the Chord Sheet view. This is for specific suggestions only, not general comments. There are a few ideas extracted from the main user interface enhancements thread robertw: I think the Chords Timeline work great, but I would like to see perhaps, text to show 1 verse, 2,verse, etc... as well as where you have some kind of action, like Fills, Push/Hold, etc... Maybe R1, R2, R3 for the Repeat signs, and a "F", "P", "H" and for more than 1 action in a bar "$" (used a dollar sign, could be whatever works best). <chords_timeline> Matt Finley: One area not mentioned yet is the basic format of the Chordsheet. There have been good suggestions made in recent years about organizing a cell differently, so each measure has four clearly defined subdividable beats (and more or fewer beats per measure if other time signatures are implemented), so that microchords are made more straightforward and the whole idea of commas is eliminated.
Some warm thoughts on a cold day in Texas... Music and arrangement- Steve Mohacey Memo: This stripped-down rock Style grooves fast despite its lack of drumset, and includes electric bass, keyboard, percussion, and acoustic guitar. -Examples: Dream Girl, Mona, Genre "Intensity" Score=70/100 _NEOLITH.STY. Neolithic Rock with Percussion All RealTracks. Quintet. Tempo=110 (95-125) Instruments: El.Bass, Multi-Drums, El.Piano, Ac.Guitar, Drums RD: CongasEv16[single]: a: Congas b: CongasEv16[single] :Jim McGillveray Multi-DrumsCongasEv16[single] [Multi] RT1253: Bass, Electric, PopShiningHeld Ev 120 , Mark Hill RT1437: Piano, Electric, Rhythm JazzFunkGroovin Ev16 110 , Jeff Lorber RT2929: Guitar, Acoustic, Rhythm PopFunkyJoe Ev16 110 , Joe Robinson I'm playing a Selmer Reference 54 Tenor Saxophone, Guardala MB1 (original handmade) mouthpiece, and Boston Sax Shop 3.5 Black Box reeds. Recorded using a Sennheiser 441-u condenser microphone w/ TRITON FetHead, Logic Pro 11, and a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. Video from iPhone 15 Pro Max. Video editing done in iMovie. I just bought Final Cut Pro (learning curve looks about a steep a climb as Band In A Box 2024 Ultrapak for Mac and Logic Pro... LOL). Enjoy.
SO many people have asked why PT wont save a file as MP3 and the response from PG is apparently its a codec patent issue fair enough. You can save the file as a WAV and use third party software to convert to MP3 a workable but extra step. Has anyone figured out how to download a 3rd party codec encoder (this part seems easy) but I can figure out how to enable PT to automatically use it. Has anyone figured this out? Thanks and regards
As the title says (the issue was Japanese text in my case). Not really a big deal, since you can just rename the file to bypass the issue, but just wanted to make sure that the issue is known.
Hello friends across the Atlantic, I had some problems with the original USB3 BIAB audiophile disk, I was not able to resolve them completely and after reflection I decided to buy a 4TB external SSD “Samsung SSD 990 Pro NVMe” with a Zike 666 case which will ensure at least “3800MB/s” transfers as fast or faster than with the internal HD of my macM1max under SEQUOIA and also faster than the USB3 HD provided by BIAB. I want to re-install BIAB 2024 on this disk with the big files RT and DRUMS folders etc. What is the best way to proceed: Make a clone of BIAB audiophile 2024…then update it… or download all the data from the site… I ask this question to know if there are things to know to avoid starting over several times and especially to have a healthy and sustainable installation. Thank you so much for the advice from those who have already been there. phil from Nice
I have a nice track 2-3 Guaracha I thought I might add some biab soloists to for practicing my bass. I selected "best" real track soloits. Tried guitar, flute, trumpet, sax, and guitar. Honestly it seems like they ate a few gummies before the session. They're seemingly oblivious to the changes being played. Its almost funny to listen to them. Reminds me of that Guitar scene from "All of Me" with Steve Martin, Lilly Tomlin. Attached is a screenshot of the changes. Certainly something a soloist in this genre would be expected to play. Zero upper partials in the chords to confuse them. Is there some training required?
At NAMM 2025, Ketron are launching a new arranger keyboard derived from the Event - "Fusion". It seems to be 61 keys only (at present, at least), has some workflow improvemenmts and arabic scales.
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I'm following along with the vdeo on creating a song with Melodist, ChatGPT, Synth V, etc. Is there any way to change the type of song/chords that this creates? It seems very One Trick Pony. I'm using a SW16 funk style, doing no change in style, and trying different melodists. However, all the chord progressions are pretty lame Smooth Jazz, I-vi-IV-V progressions. I'm looking for more of a blues-based New Orleans funk style tune. All of the progressions coming up begin with a IMaj7 chord. Is there anything versatile or useful for this function?
I have a song that I published at the start of the year through CDbaby. I checked streams on amazon music and its a 2000 already. But i cant see any information about streams on cdbaby. I'm new to this but amazon prime artist site was very straight forward but CDBaby isn't. If someone could point me in the right direction because all i get on CDBaby is - There is no data available for your request. And when i click on Trending and Analytics on cdbaby - it asks to choose a partner spotify or itunes, but cd baby said they distribute it to lots of different platforms, so why can I only choose these 2? Totally confused. thanks in advance.
It's been a while since I last played around with the BIAB harmonizer. Because of that, I needed to refresh my memory, so I've just had a play around with the harmonizer's tutorial file called "Listen.MGU" (to refresh my memory). This file is found under...\bb\Documentation\Tutorials\Tutorial - Audio Harmonies and it includes vocal audio. One thing I noticed with the audio file included with this tutorial is that the audio volumes are extremely loud, I had to decrease the original audio and the two generated tracks to 35 (orig. audio) and 30 (generated harmony). Another consideration was that because the vocals of for this file are male, the pitch is actually one octave lower than the melody notation. This means that since the notated melody sits around middle C, the vocal is in the region one octave lower than middle C. If harmony is generated lower/beneath this vocal, it will sound very muddy. It would be like playing chords on a bass guitar. For this reason, when I generated the harmony, I chose two voices to sound above the melody. I also tried the the transcription functions and they worked fine. These transcriptions could be saved in MIDI format and then imported into Synth V. In Synth V, the octave could also be adjusted appropriately for female voices. This makes it very easy to create background harmonies. For those who are curious about how my harmonies sounded, below is a link to the wav file of the harmonization I created. "Listen" - wav file
Artist usually use the same instrument, this allows for style/pattern changing on the one track rather than just A or B pattern of the instrument This will work well with Direct Input guitars It needs to be quick and easy to do, Drag n Drop would do it As you drag n drop a RealTrack from the picker into the Biab timeline it will go in as 1 bar This can be copied, moved or resized You can play/preview it in the chord position You can Regenerate You can set the color of the item for a quick visual to see where it repeats on the timeline You can adjust the volume for one section of a RealTrack or adjust the same for all occurrences of that RealTrack. This is just piecing together Quinn Bachand Acoustic Guitar of different styles RT3182-Style.mp3 These are movable segments representing the RealTracks, Biab will generate the track accordingly:
I would like to see three changes made to the Band-in-a-Box audio mixer: 1. Have the four slider labels of Volume, Pan, Reverb and Tone align with the center line of each slider set. 2. Have multiple automation lanes available for each track to include pan, reverb and tone in addition to the already available track volume automation. 3. Switch the reverb and tone slider positions.
The idea is to unify look and feel for different tools. I believe tabbed panel is a way to go. As the concept already is there. Each "tab" should be detachable, to become it's own "free floating" entity. There are a few wish candidates for this type of approach. I made a mock for Bar settings with a couple of other suggestions. Also, current navigator becomes pretty useless after certain amount of bars are reached. I believe the number is about 100. Offering a suggestion for a more "classic" type navigator.
No logro forzar el nombre de un acorde con su enarmonico, ej. C# en lugar de Db, BIAB lo coloca automaticamente, he probado de todas formas y no cambia. Gracias
One request I made some time ago (that I want to repeat now) is for PGM to curate the vast collection of RealStyles into sets that play nicely together in a song to give it some dynamics without sounding like a completely different song/band just started playing! The A and B sections is a nice option but often it changes very little. And, before someone mentions multistyles, those are great but there are far too few of those to properly address this request. 1) RealTrack = recorded bits of a specific instrument 2) RealStyle = professionally curated collection of RealTracks that sound good together 3) RealSong = professionally curated collection of RealStyles that sound good/realistic together and provide dynamics/variety #1 and #2 already exist and are fantastic! How about adding #3 as well? It helps BIAB users AND provides something new for PGM to sell! And, in the meantime, maybe PGM and/or some expert users could start/maintain a curated list here in the forums of RealStyles that work well together?
What it says in the title. If I make a selection anywhere else in the body of the song, F10 will loop it, but for the tag ending, playback just goes back to the beginning of the song. How can I loop playback of the tag ending? TIA BiaB 2024, 2019 MacBook Pro 16"
See Video: Reaper-BBPluin-Song-Sections.mp4 Download: Reaper-BBPluin-Song-Sections.mp4 This allows you to easily add different Style or tracks sections. Using Tabs is an easy way to gen different sections, until they get the drag n drop track template working allowing you to stay in the one Tab. Also to see what instruments are where: Write RT RD Names in items using Take Markers (Reaper) Remember to put Part Markers after the last bar so it will play a pre fill if it goes into a post fill. You can enable mute buttons or drag the clip volume up/down when all selected See Kenny's video:
Now if you want to create song sections you need to be able to disable the count-in and ending, the count-in is not disabling. Another issue is when you want to add another song section of a different style after the current song section the "Send All" will stuff things up. This is where you need the drag n drop the track data as a Reaper Track Template, there is an action "Offset track template items by edit cursor" this allows you to drop at the cursor pos.
YouTube influencer Rick Beato recently posted a song he produced in Nashville, recorded in a commercial studio using Nashville session musicians. Rick Beato considers this a demo level recording and the comments section of his post has many requests for a mixdown and commercial release of the song. Rick Beato doesn't seen to be interested in pursuing a commercial release. I've got a different idea. Why not PG Music contact Rick Beato and arrange a re-mix of the song using 'new' session musicians provided by BIAB. Fly Tobin along with a complimentary copy of the Audiophile Editing of 2025 BIAB, and do a re-mix of this song and tape it for Rick to post and PG Music to post as a comparison between BIAB and a live professional recording session with the remix being done in a professional recording studio, (Rick Beato has one) by professional producers and recording engineers, Rick and Tobin with BIAB's professional RealTracks - recorded by real musicians playing real instruments. Recording a song with Nashville session players
Hello to the community! I am first trying to use BIAB, and may not know very basic stuff, though I tried to find the answers on the forums, in google, on youtube and in ChatGPT and didn't manage to, so I hope somebody can direct me. I have a song, which has long ritenuto in the intro, and then after the second chorus. I am trying to mark this song with Audio Chord Wizard. After I place first several bars, It does perfectly put all the rest automatically until the retenuto place. So in this place I want to adjust the bars manually, making them slower (larger). But when I start moving the bars manually, immediately the sound gets desynchronized with the visual waveform, which makes it impossible for me to orient. The waveform cursor goes much faster, than the song sound. Because of that I decided to mark everything manually, which I managed to do without pausing the song even once. As soon as I pause - it gets desynchronized, but if I don't, I manage to mark everything correctly, so the bars are where they should be, and it sounds correctly. Then I do auto chords analyze, and then I close the Chord Wizard and come back to the chords sheet view. And then anyway when I start applying different styles, it happens again. The bars, the waveform and the sound get desynchronized and I don't see any logic, why they are not aligned anymore. Where I put one bar, there's now two of them, and they are not aligned, the sound is paying faster, the bars are moving slower. This issue has been torturing me for the last couple of days. I made a short screen video with the issue:
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Another consideration was that because the vocals of for this file are male, the pitch is actually one octave lower than the melody notation. This means that since the notated melody sits around middle C, the vocal is in the region one octave lower than middle C. If harmony is generated lower/beneath this vocal, it will sound very muddy. It would be like playing chords on a bass guitar. For this reason, when I generated the harmony, I chose two voices to sound above the melody. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=29873&filename=listen (2025) - harmonizer settings.jpg)
I also tried the the transcription functions and they worked fine. These transcriptions could be saved in MIDI format and then imported into Synth V. In Synth V, the octave could also be adjusted appropriately for female voices. This makes it very easy to create background harmonies. For those who are curious about how my harmonies sounded, below is a link to the wav file of the harmonization I created. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=29859&filename=Drop-N-Drag-RealTracks.gif)
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