I've started experimenting with chords a lot today. Only in VST version. I found a problem. If the input chord is short, the input music changes very little. If it is increased to a certain length, the later concert will change, even if the same chord is repeated all the time. This is a good thing. You can make music faster. But it also makes me confused, because I always need to keep writing as long as possible, and then find out my favorite change paragraph. My question is, in general, how long chords do you enter. What length is the most appropriate. In fact, I like the feeling of continuous progress for a long time. In addition, there are blue, green, a and B on those chords. I don't understand what they mean. I haven't found relevant video teaching. I don't know which friend has time to talk to me. Thank you very much for helping me
The blue and green boxes are part markers. Typically an "a" part marker is more sedate, or has less energy, than a "b" part maker. You might use an "a" part marker at the beginning of a verse and a "b" part marker during a solo.
You can use part markers wherever you want. Some users place a part marker at every bar.
Part markers tell the drums when it is time for a fill. There is a setting where you can select whether the drums do, or do not, perform a cymbal crash as part of the fill.
There are other part markers beside "a" and "b". A multistyle combines the elements of two or more styles together. For example assume you have two styles called style 1 and style 2. The part markers for style 1 will be "a" and "b" while the part markers for style 2 will be "c" (style 2 "a" part marker) and "d" (style 2 "b" part marker). You can continue adding styles all the way up to "y" and "z" part markers.
RealTracks are a collection of musical phrases or riffs. RealTracks have phrases of 8 bars, 4 bars, 2 bars and 1 bar. If you have 8 bars in the chord of "X" you may hear any combination of phrases built around "X". Band-in-a-Box can extract smaller phrases from inside a larger phrase. The longer you make your chord breaks, the more content Band-in-a-Box has to select from.
Just a thought. You are new to Band-in-a-Box and are starting with the plugin. Nothing wrong with what your doing. In fact I'm pretty sure one of the reasons PG Music is developing the plugin is to attract a new audience that, without the plugin, otherwise would not try Band-in-a-Box.
However, that also means you are not familiar with the basics of Band-in-a-Box and how it works. I believe many future plugin users will benefit from reading your questions. Keep 'em comin'!
Harmonic rhythm is an important factor in the creation of music. It's also one of the lesser understood principles. The below web page and YouTube clip explain it in a little more detail.
thank you. In other words, if I choose a style, is there only a and B? I can't come out C, D unless I choose another style I can't find the link to the video of composing music with VST.
If yes, if you are not busy, please let me know if you can find it.
I read the links sent by the two teachers above and benefited a lot
In addition, I don't know the role of choruses, bar setting and song setting on this VST. I also didn't find the relevant detailed introduction and video introduction
The plugin does not have as many videos available as the Band-in-a-Box program does. Partially that is because Band-in-a-Box is a mature product while the plugin is a recent product.
The plugin is included as an add-on in all Band-in-a-Box retail packages. The plugin is not intended to replace the Band-in-a-Box program but instead to bring SOME Band-in-a-Box features to a DAW. One name suggested when the plugin was first released was Band-in-a-Box Light or BiaB Lite.
Styles with more than two kinds of part markers ("a", "b", "c" and "d") are called MultiStyles. I believe you are the first user to comment that the Plugin does not support the use of MultiStyles.
I've taken the liberty of creating a wishlist thread +++ HERE +++ if you want to support the idea of the plugin using MultiStyles with a +1.
thank you. Just submit the request for me. I'm not very good at writing. I just started using it. Learning. Thank you for helping me. Thank you for helping me all the time. I hope I have my own work as soon as possible, ha ha
I'm a little confused about two things: 1: The change of rhythm and melody confused me. I want to know how many squares are written in the VST plug-in. Will complete the changes of drum rhythm and guitar and other instruments in style. 2: The 8th and 16th confused me. I know that ev stands for stability and SW stands for stability. I also know that 8th stands for an eighth note. But I don't know how many squares the 8th and 16th represent the lower chords
Both the Band-in-a-Box (BiaB) Plugin (what you call VST) and the BiaB program have a maximum limit of 255 bars (what you call squares).
Each bar is roughly equal to a whole note.
Each bar contains two cells so each cell is roughly equal to a half note. The highlight covers one cell.
Each cell contains two notes so each note is roughly equal to a quarter note. So one bar equals two cells and four notes.
When writing about bars it is common to show a bar as "|" without the quotes. So a bar with four chords can be written as |a,b c,d|
Each note contains a chord. If a chord position is empty it is assumed the preceding chord is still playing. So a bar can have up four chords split into two cells of two chords. Notice the "a" space is empty and there is a space between b & c | ,b c,d|
Chords inside a cell are separated by a comma. If the first or third chord position is empty then place a comma before chords b & c | ,b ,d|
Ev equals Even feel and Sw equals Swing feel (also called shuffle). The easiest way for me to tell the difference is to listen to the drums and count the beats. The drummer will hit the high hat or cymbal right on the beat for Even feel (count as 1,2,3,4) while Swing feel the count is between the beats (count as 1 e and ah 2 e and ah, 3 e and ah 4 e and ah)
Just use a and B in VST. Because C, D and even more can be generated by selecting realtrack through extra and riff, right? In addition, for example, I wrote five a's
So the five a's are different. I can cut and splice them myself in Daw. Similarly, if I input three B, the generation is different, right? I also noticed that there is a space and there is nothing. This belongs to a?
Part Markers Part Markers are placed on the Chord Sheet to indicate a new part of the song, to insert a substyle change, or to insert drum fills. They typically occur every 8 bars or so but may be placed at the beginning of any bar.
Also, check out page 136 which also has some information.
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