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Hi guys,

I have made a concerted effort to explore the use of BIAB in the last few months . I listen to songs posted by Floyd Jane and I am amazed at what is possible.

I have found that for myself as a novice user, BIAB is very useful for generating a conceptual idea but difficult and time consuming to use.

I have neither the time or inclination to spend the next several years to become an expert on this software or any other software for that matter.

I also have spent a lot of time and money trying to learn to produce songs with my computer based home studio.

The results have been less than stellar.

I have no doubt I will get better at all this but I don't think any of this will replace working live in a studio.

I have also tried to use some musicians both paid and unpaid over the internet. That has been pretty uninspired. Too disconnected, to difficult to communicate ideas other than to score things out and say play this. There have been some very nice people to work with but... A total resistance to using video conferencing to communicate ideas. Pretty unprofessional in some cases even when paying the normal amounts of money a pro studio session musician would make.

I have never had any real issues getting what I wanted in a live studio. Very little of that ever made much money but that was my fault for not being able to produce commercially viable songs.

At the end of the day, in retirement, this was supposed to be a fun hobby. All this diving into the world of home recording was an attempt to reduce the cost of producing a song.

All this software is useful to generate ideas but to get what I want I will have to go back to a studio with real session players. That kind of sucks from a economic standpoint but it is what it is. Better to produce one good song a year than a thousand also ran.

As I am getting to old to enjoy my boat in the ocean any longer, I have been considering leaving Florida and moving back to LA or perhaps even Nashville where I have better access to pro musicians.

I hope this pandemic issue will be resolved soon so I can get out of lockup. As I get older time becomes a more pressing issue. I could have done without all this chaos in my old age...lol

I think BIAB is a great product with many uses for many people including me.
I just don't know how to use it or other software well enough to get the results I want. I am not sure I have the time left to learn even if I wanted too.

What has your experience been?

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Band in a Box is clever, very clever, but you need to make the effort to use it well. There is a manual but I feel from what you wrote that you would not feel like getting all the useful stuff that is in it. The manual is 400+ pages, but put the effort in and you will soon end up with music that you are more than happy with. I think some people think that Band in a Box is some sort of magic software where you press two buttons and out pops a hit song.You get out what you put in, simple as that. I am 65 and have pretty much found my way around the software, producing many songs that have a professional feel with a little extra tweaking in Logic. Stick with it, it really is worth the effort.

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Using BIAB (or in general any computer based music making tools) to make your music is not for everyone. Fact is you need to be part computer nerd and part musician. And yes, BIAB in particular takes a long time to master. What you are saying rings a note with me since I have to admit I am more computer nerd than musician. So this workflow works well for me. There is no one way to make music. If you have a workflow working live, which makes you happy, go for it.


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I like interacting with other people. That is one of the cool things about playing live with a band or in a studio. Exchanging musical ideas on the fly between the other musicians is huge fun.

You look over at the bass player and without saying anything he takes the music in another direction. You understand what he is saying on the bass, you smile and go with him. Cool stuff.

Things can also get out of hand sometimes....lol My lead guitar player use to blow through the changes and zoom off to some place only he understood...lol My job was to bring him back to earth...lol

We had great respect for one another and listened to each other intently. Eyes on who ever is in the lead at a given moment in the song.

For me, music is a team sport.

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So I went over to the Music Forum and listened to your "first offering". It was a good first effort with BIAB. But truly a "first effort". You promised a second version?

Now I suspect you may not have given it enough time to get over some growing pains with the media. You say you are having trouble with the drums. If you stick around a bit longer you will discover that BIAB real drums are great for click and play, but if you need to hear something specific, you need to move over to a different tool. So deeper down the rabbit hole you have to go. Sorry, more cost and more time.

You sound a bit like my friend Lenny. Lenny was a guitarist with 40+ years of bar bands and recording studio. As he aged I introduced him to BIAB. He struggled with it for a while ( a couple years actually). Long enough to get down likely every song he had ever played and more. He was a bit like a fish out of water. But the fact was his bar band days - turned into a church band days, were long ever between age and health. So I think he did learn to appreciate what can be accomplished in a home recording studio with computer aided tools.

I suspect a lot of us here in the forum would have loved to have a more "live" experience with our music making, as you have. If that road is still open for you, and it makes you happy, go for it. But there comes a time when everyone at the local studio is way to young to be in the business and the music recorded there is way too weird to contribute to.

Sorry, I am rambling now... Do what you think is best and have fun doing it.


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Using BIAB (or in general any computer based music making tools) to make your music is not for everyone. Fact is you need to be part computer nerd and part musician. And yes, BIAB in particular takes a long time to master. What you are saying rings a note with me since I have to admit I am more computer nerd than musician. So this workflow works well for me. There is no one way to make music. If you have a workflow working live, which makes you happy, go for it.

I have to agree 100%! BIAB is not easy to use and intuitive but because I love software as much or more than I love music I enjoy it!

As for the studio and session musicians, I'm not one who plays well with others IRL so BIAB is a godsend.

My advice to anyone trying to use it is get really familiar with the very basics of generating and exporting your instrument tracks from RealTracks and then do the rest of production in a quality DAW. But there again the DAW is another rabbit hole that requires an enjoyment or at least tolerance of complex software!

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Billy, I won't try to give you much advice because our background (except for a love of boats) is likely quite different. I was a pro player as a child and have always been a computer expert. Even so, in a studio I like to be one or the other, not both. I play most horns but BIAB gave me the rhythm section I cannot play. Someday in the nursing home, I will want a laptop, modem, headphones and BIAB. That will be fine.

The only thing that surprised me in your post was that people you would like to collaborate with are reluctant to conference with you on video! That really is a disappointment. I can't see any band going into a studio without working directly together in some way. Those musicians, if they want to adapt to the new normal, should add video skills to what they bring to the table.

Having said that, I rarely need to meet with the talent before I hit the studio. I was probably recommended by their producer or another artist who knows what I do, and the talent generally has no idea what a horn player might add. I prepare heavily, using BIAB to write and arrange parts on their song, and arrive in the studio ready to lay down tracks. Then I am usually requested to play other things they think of, but somehow what gets put on the CDD is only what I prearranged. This is ENTIRELY different from what you describe, where you get the energy and ideas from bandmates. I get that. So, encourage those players to learn to video conference with you. Maybe JamKazam, which has less latency than Zoom, would help. Otherwise, hire someone else.


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Thanks Matt,

There are issues with "winging it" in a studio. One, it cost a lot of money and two the engineer is not real happy to set around and listen to you rehearse.

So I agree and generally do the same as you. I am prepared before I walk in the door. I like to do stuff in one take when possible. In the past when it cost two or three K per song time would get your attention real quick...lol

Sometime you get to the studio and someone comes up with a new idea. In that case sometimes it is possible to work it out on the spot. Most of the time you have to go away and come back later.

Frequently guitar music is not as structured as horn lines. We often do not play the exact same thing twice. Yes, signature licks sure but the rest no.

When I have worked with a real pro drummer like Greg Bissonette for example, often he played exactly the right thing the first time around. You don't have to tell guys like that what to do.

The creation process normally happens in stages. Someone comes up with a set of lyrics or a melody line or a harmonic structure. Then who ever came up with the idea call in who ever he needs next to exchange ideas with. The idea person, in our case plays guitar most of the time, and a piano player is a good combination to start. It never works exactly the same way every time.

With the pandemic and the fact that the band members don't all live in the same city or even the same country, video is the only thing that is logical. Of course latency is a issue but there are ways to get around it.

The aversion to video is likely related to being shy or not having the needed self confidence.

I have been away from music for a long while so everything is a bit new to me...even my own guitar.

Thanks for your input.

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Hey John,

I really get that many people just like BIAB. I also think there may be a good many people who prefer to work alone.

I own several DAWs. I find all of them less problematic to deal with than BIAB, with the exception of Pro Tools. Pro Tools is great for tracking live stuff. Not so good for creating new music...just my opinion.

I find many people who are infatuated with computers like being alone with their computers.

For me BIAB, DAWs, and other music software are just tools. I don't like or dislike them. Some are difficult to use and some not so difficult.

I never realized how much I miss working with other people until I started setting here working by my self.

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There are issues with "winging it" in a studio. One, it cost a lot of money and two the engineer is not real happy to set around and listen to you rehearse.


Remember that while the clock is running and ticking away your dollars, he works for you and you own him.

I hired Bissonnette to play drums once. Unfortunately I got PAUL Bissonnette, the hockey player. The whole session all he did was puck around! <rimshot>


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Pro Tools is great for tracking live stuff. Not so good for creating new music...just my opinion.


Well, that's an apples to garden hoes comparison anyway, as Pro Tools doesn't "create" anything. If the players are ready to create, Pro Tools is the fo'shizzle. If the players have no idea what they are doing, you aren't ready to be in the studio yet and unless you have Warren Buffet kind of money to waste to get together and just play whatever, don't book the time.

If you DO have Warren Buffet kind of money, waste it on me instead of studio time! PM me for my address!! And I WILL take a check!!

On topic, BIAB is extremely difficult for a newb. Those overblown claims that you don't have to know anything about music to just sit down and write songs are extreme over-hype.

Imagine this conversation.

"You just have to enter your chords in."
"What's a chord?"
It's the notes in the scale of the key you are playing in."
"Notes? Scales? Key? Huh?"
"You know. A chord. Like a major is 1-3-5."
"!, 3 and 5 of what?"
"The steps in the scale."
"What's a scale?"

Then try to explain time signatures. "4/4? For for what?"

You see the ridiculousness in that but it makes a point. You can't describe red as "the color of an apple" to a blind person who has never seen an apple.

This software is very hard to just sit down with and use it.

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FWIW, I had to spend MUCH more time learning Izotope's fx suite, Waves' products and my DAW than I did on BiaB over the last seven years. I came into the home digital thing from from ground zero after years of playing in acoustic bands and knocking around with analogue recording since the 60's. When we decided years after leaving our band to explore some new genres I jumped headfirst into BiaB and Logic Pro.

The power and versatility of BiaB is stunning indeed. There are major components of the software that I simply don't have the technical music background to properly explore (but certainly appreciate what folks do with it); hence, I've attempted to become as knowledgeable as possible regarding RealTracks, RealDrums and MidiSuperTracks. Those are my session guys and gals. Sometimes a regen or two gives me what I want. Other times multiple regens of a RT (comped up to a single track in the DAW) are necessary but I always get what I need for the tune.

Janice and I find it very cool watching music concerts/documentaries and saying, "Look it’s John Jarvis -- the guy who plays on our songs!" smile

All meaning that after I came to focus on RT/RD's the learning was fun and easy.

Obviously YMMV depending on the goals.

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PS My comments are predicated upon the notion that a beginner is a, well, beginner to BiaB and not to creating music, i.e., they know a few chords smile

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Remember that while the clock is running and ticking away your dollars, he works for you and you own him.

I hired Bissonnette to play drums once. Unfortunately I got PAUL Bissonnette, the hockey player. The whole session all he did was puck around! <rimshot>


Well did he score wink grin grin grin grin


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I came into BIAB with a pretty good understanding of music theory.

Scales, intervals, chords, chord building, modes, arpeggios, diatonic progressions, circle of fifths, Nashville Number System, etc. I'd studied bunches of Mel Bay books, dozens of Homespun courses on different instruments but mainly guitar, learned to read music in standard notation, learned to play enough piano so I could help my son with his piano lessons, graduated from the school of hard knocks by playing with people who were better than me so I had to "step up" my skills and develop my ear and improvisational ability. I'd been writing songs for almost 20 years. I'd also built my own computers for a couple of years before before I first got BIAB.

What I didn't come into BIAB with was a lot of spare time. I had an 8 or 9 year old son that I was definitely wasn't going to sacrifice time with to mess with BIAB, a wife that rightly expected a lot of time and a very demanding job that required a lot more than 40 hours a week. Last of all, I wanted to play my guitar in whatever time I could squeeze out from all of my other duties.

Jumping forward, (I'm rambling), I gave up on BIAB in 2013 after repeated attempts to get them to fix the incorrect notation of bluegrass and acoustic styles as 16th notes instead of 8th notes.

Peter Gannon promised to address it in the next update a couple of months ago. I hope he's able to do so and then I'll upgrade now that I have some free time to mess with it.

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I either start with BiaB and let it guide me, or try to find something in BiaB that works.

Starting out with BiaB means I don't struggle to make things match, because I'm starting with a style where the tracks are working well together.

Adding BiaB tracks later to an existing backing can be more iffy. I'll typically generating a bunch .wav files to load into my DAW. When a style works, I can usually create something from the best takes. When it doesn't... well, there are other tools other than BiaB. But for a "live" sound (lead guitar, brass, strummed acoustic) it's often the best first choice.

That said, if you're willing to pack up and move to Nashville or LA, it doesn't sound like a "hobby" to me. It sounds like you're still in the "pro" game.

I'm nowhere near "pro", but that never stopped me from offering advice that's worth less than what you paid for. wink

Nothing's going to replace what you get from a bunch of pros together is a studio. You've been there and done that, and know what you're missing by not going that route.

But as you mentioned, what you heard from people like floyd jane impressed you enough to purchase BiaB. So in theory, you can get much of the way there with the tools you've got.

A while back, I was hired to "produce" a number of songs for someone. He'd send me the BiaB tracks and his vocals, and I'd do all the important but tedious stuff in the DAW to make them better: work on the vocals, generate harmonies, replace instruments, add instrument, and adjust the mix.

I'd send the results to him, and I'd get an email with describing what he liked, and where I missed the mark. Lather, rinse and repeat. Not the best way to collaborate, and some tracks required a lot of iterations before I got to where he was happy.

Part of my job (I thought) was to provide new ideas. For example, I thought one song would work better at a easy tempo, so I slowed down the vocal and completely changed the backing. (BiaB is a great tool for that). He didn't consider it an improvement, but said he'd let his daughter decide. We ended up going with the slower tempo and feel.

Since I'm telling the story, of course the example I picked was where he agreed with me. That wasn't always the case, and because it was his song, and he was paying for it, he always had the final say. laugh

Perhaps you can figure out how to offload some of the parts of music creation that don't inspire you, and figure out how to focus on the bits you enjoy - while still getting the "pro" results you heard from others... without moving to Nashville or LA.


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Well did he score?


Paul Missthenet?


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Well did he score?


Paul Missthenet?


He did have 7 goals and 15 assists in his entire career! I wonder why he is not in the hall of fame grin Or was that the hall of shame shocked


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Well did he score?


Paul Missthenet?


He did have 7 goals and 15 assists in his entire career! I wonder why he is not in the hall of fame grin Or was that the hall of shame shocked


How many penalty minutes?


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Hey Billy,

Looking at your original post of this thread, I feel I'm kinda the opposite of you. I grew up to my teen years in the 1980s and became a complete computer geek. Sure I liked doodling with instruments but never became proficient at a one. Keys are what I've played most over the years. I took a couple of years of music theory at the local community college in the '90s and that really helped my black/white-ones/zeros mindset.

So over the past 10-20 years I've really enjoyed my tools like BIAB and Pro Tools. They do everything I want easily. The difficulty for me is musical talent (creativeness). Once I get some musical ideas, I can go to town on that with no issues at all technically.

Overall, I'm on the far other side of the fence, all technical minded and not enough creative minded. It seems in my experiences that folks are one or the other. I've very rarely encountered someone who is lucky enough to be both.

Good conversations on this thread.




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Jeezes...I took a nap and you guys typed a lot of stuff.

David...Moving is not just about music...lol

Every year about this time I start thinking about moving some where much cooler with no hurricanes. So moving to back to LA or Nashville is on my mind every year. At the moment the brown LA smog has turned into red disaster. Glad I am here at the moment.

Then I look around at all the "stuff" I have collected up and all the work to load it up and unload it on the other end...by that time it is November and the weather is really super. What we live in south Florida for. Put it off till next year...lol

It looks like there are as many reasons for using BIAB as there are people on this site.

If I never turn it on again, this is still the best forum there is on the internet. That is true because of the people who are here all the time....great group of folks.

This has been a really good thread because I feel like I know a lot more about the people here.

I think my issue is the process. I have an idea, come up with a basic chord progression on guitar or piano, write some lyrics, then go to BIAB and try to make all that fit together. I assume that is not that easy to do for anyone.

Like Bud said, I find it fun to see people who I know of like Brent Mason on TV and know I have access to him on my computer. I don't know what Brent gets for studio time in Nashville but I am sure it is not cheep.

There are two things that have always been problematic for me, drums and vocals. If you like to create music in several styles, you need more than one vocalist. We always joked about the drummer issue in the band. If we ever found one we liked, one of us would need to marry him or her on the spot...lol

As I get older my ability to play guitar gets less and less so I become dependent on others to play what I dream up. I have been very lucky to have super good musicians to play with all my life.
Music has always taken a back seat to other business ventures which gave me the where with all to afford to go mess around in a studio.

All my life it has been four things. Flying airplanes, running boats, making music, working a hundred hours a week to afford all that. At least I have a wonderful wife who puts up with all that.

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Every year about this time I start thinking about moving some where much cooler with no hurricanes.

Every "there" has something. Earthquakes and fires out west, tornadoes in the midwest, searing heat in the southwest, brutal winters in the northeast, brutal heat and hurricanes down south. And the more I looked at relocating, I realized for the short winters we have in Ohio, it's not that bad here.

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They have people for that.

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I don't know what Brent gets for studio time in Nashville but I am sure it is not cheap.

If you believe online metrics, his net worth is 17 million, so yes, he is not cheap.

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As I get older my ability to play guitar gets less and less.

My aching arthritic hands feel your pain, bro.

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I have had 3. None were anything approaching "wonderful". But when you figure they were dumb enough to marry ME....


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Well did he score?


Paul Missthenet?


He did have 7 goals and 15 assists in his entire career! I wonder why he is not in the hall of fame grin Or was that the hall of shame shocked


How many penalty minutes?


340! That explains a lot!


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Hi all, really interesting thread. My own experience:

I've been using BIAB for about 9 months now, and have only scraped the surface of what it can do, but to be honest that's enough for me.

My songs are fairly basic so I haven't needed to delve too deep to get something that I think sounds good. Though I've only done 6 so far, so still early days!

Despite having written songs for years my musical theory knowledge is awful - I still don't know the names of some of the chords I use on guitar - but at least BIAB doesn't laugh at me for it :-)

I miss the excitement and adventure of going to a studio to record with mates in the band, but as we were all amateurs our results were the same level. As the songwriter I always felt that the songs could sound better.

With BIAB I can now get a really professional recording that I would never be able to achieve otherwise.

There is a lot to learn to with all the tech, inc DAWs, mixing & mastering etc. and sometimes it feels that you get further away from the thing you love, the actual writing, but I couldn't go back to the old ways now!

I've been very lucky to find an online vocalist through Fivver who has been very easy to work with and who I felt got the songs straight away. I know there are lots of excellent drummers on there as well, so that may be worth looking at.

I think you should turn it on again :-)

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Hi David,

I continue to use BIAB. I like the program for many reasons. I also have used people from the internet sites but with mixed results. That is also true in a very few cases with live studio musicians.

Here is a look at a song I wrote with friends. This was live, one take. No one in this group of people had any idea how this song would go. Totally on the fly. Myself, the drummer, and the bass player played the basic harmonic track. Everything else you hear was done one track at a time. The vocal was one take, and Robert the steel player sang the song without ever have seen the lyrics.

We also were not trying to create some polished piece of work. Fun stuff between musicians we all knew.

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[Despite having written songs for years my musical theory knowledge is awful - I still don't know the names of some of the chords I use on guitar - but at least BIAB doesn't laugh at me for it :-)]

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Despite having written songs for years my musical theory knowledge is awful - I still don't know the names of some of the chords I use on guitar - but at least BIAB doesn't laugh at me for it :-)

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Here are a couple of programs that may help you discover what chord(s) you are playing. I jam with a finger picking guitarist whom just fingers some chords and has no idea what they are called. I can usually figure them out myself but sometimes I have to use the first program listed. The second program gives you the fingerings for many chords.

I hope this helps.

https://www.oolimo.com/guitarchords/analyze

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Cool software Mario. The chord finder certainly has chords I do not know on guitar.

The ability for the software to arpeggiate the chord is useful. Some of the chords I would have little idea how to use. C13b9 for example. It would be cool if there was a software that could put that chord in context.

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I can relate to your experience. Yeah, there's a lot to learn. Songwriting, recording, music production, mixing and mastering, hardware and software and probably a few other things too....

Personally, I love this software and have taken the time to learn what I need to learn to do what I need to do.

Yeah, you don't necessarily have to write commercially viable songs in order to have a good time and enjoy this.

For the vast majority, this is a hobby. Like any hobby, it's supposed to be fun and enjoyable. Otherwise, why do it? Like any hobby, you have to dig into the details to learn how to get better. If you decided to paint landscapes, or weave baskets, or play golf, you would have to spend the time to learn that hobby to do it correctly. This is no different.

Hiring the studio musicians is just not an affordable way to do this hobby when you have the tools here to do it right. The cost of one Nashville or LA session will easily pay for one of the higher level Band in a Box versions. Do a couple of studio sessions and you have the funds to buy a decent computer, seriously good interface and studio monitors. I'm not sure what you're currently using, but adding something as simple as Ozone to your mix will take it to the next level sonically. I tell folks if you ever try the demo version of Ozone, be prepared to buy it because it's that good in the preset settings.

You have access to all of the folks here. You mentioned Floyd.... there's quite a few others who are putting out studio quality work. Ask them questions. I started in the Cakewalk forums with out BB. I was recording using my talents and midi plus the audio stuff I could play. I collaborated with keyboard players and fiddle players and singers over there. Getting others to work with you can be difficult but when you find the right folks it's really fun and inspiring.

Sounds like you're almost to the point of throwing in the towel and calling it quits. I can't talk you into anything, but I'd suggest trying again to connect with a few folks and ask questions. Ask people to play parts for you that you know, know what they're doing and can play and sing. Ask people to comment on the technicals of the songs you record and get their feedback with solutions. I used to do that all the time in the Cakewalk forum when it existed. That's how you learn, and that's how you improve.

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We also were not trying to create some polished piece of work. Fun stuff between musicians we all knew.

https://youtu.be/lE8PABawHEs

Billy

Hi Billy, yes I know what you mean, bouncing off others when you're on the same wavelength is a joy when it gels - I always found band rehearsals more fun as we tended to suffer from red light fever in the studio!

It's great you have video of it.

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Here are a couple of programs that may help you discover what chord(s) you are playing.

Thanks Mario, I've tried a few apps and sites but they often give conflicting results - that one gave me an A6(11) so I will try that in BIAB and see if it's one of the ones I'm after.

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Oh No!!! This is just enough to get Eddie going again!!


Eddie will remain silent on this one. He is at least trying!!!


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Hi Herb,

I have no intentions of stopping my use of BIAB. I also will continue to collaborate with musicians over the internet, both here in the USA and in other countries.

There is nothing inherently wrong with any software method of creating music.

Software can not currently duplicate live interaction with other musicians any more than a DJ can replace a live band. Perhaps we will have AI's in the not to distant future that will. This is not to say high quality music can not be created with software because it can.

As far as cost....nothing is cheap in today's world. About $600 to play a round of golf at Pebble Beach. Add $145 more for a caddie. It cost me a thousand dollars ever time I set foot on my boat. The boat is a nothing little 28 foot center console with twin 250 HP outboards. Cost $158,000. Cost 6 to 7K per year to maintain. The house in Marathon...don't even ask. I sold my airplane, to old to fly, can't afford the $400 per hour to use it.

I am no longer willing to work a hundred hours a week to afford a lot of the stuff I use to do.

So in the scheme of things a couple of thousand dollars for some studio time is no more expensive than going fishing. Please don't misconstrue what I am saying and think I am some rich guy because I am not. I have worked my rear end off for sixty years to acquire a few things. I still work...just not so hard.

I find that creating something in BIAB is pretty easy IF you start in BIAB and stay within the pre recorded concepts it contains. I find it super difficult to use for musical ideas developed outside of the software. Herb, your a guitar player, go listen to the three guitar players in the video a few post back. Show me how you could ever even come closed to duplicating that in BIAB. Does a Tom Anderson guitar sound like a PRS? (there are two Anderson guitars and one PRS in the video). You will never find that level of detail in any software.

While we are on the subject of guitars, which are plentiful in BIAB, please explain to me how it would be possible to get close to a Gary Moore style solo as in Parisienne Walkways. You and I can play the solo, perhaps we don't have a vintage Les Paul and a couple of Marshall amps but if we played it you could recognize it. I am just using this as an example that anyone can go listen to on the internet. This is what I mean about starting with a concept outside of BIAB. I have tried without success just to get BIAB to play out just the chord structure. Perhaps that could be done, I don't know. Can you tell BIAB to arpeggiate a chord in a defined manner?

Well...enough of all this...I want to go play some guitar on a middle eastern song a friend of mine is writing. Gives me a chance to learn a few new words in Arabic...lol It hopefully will distract him from all the brutal crap that is going on in Beirut.

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Oh No!!! This is just enough to get Eddie going again!!


Eddie will remain silent on this one. He is at least trying!!!


So that duct tape I sent you is working wink grin


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Eddie will remain silent on this one. He is at least trying!!!


So that duct tape I sent you is working wink grin


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Please explain to me how it would be possible to get close to a Gary Moore style solo as in Parisienne Walkways.


If you can play that well to come close to Gary Moore's solo and style in general, you don't need software to generate the solos. Use it for the Hammond pads and such, but play the guitar yourself if you have those chops. And I don't know that the software was ever designed to try and copy other people's solos. It's a bunch of generic clips that you stitch together. They would get sued right into Puget Sound if they had a note for note rip of a Gary Moore solo.

The image of that reminds me of when a guy here posted an ad on Craigslist for players to do a Dream Theater tribute band. I called him JUST to ask him in person "If you can even find people who play at that level, do you think they are looking for a gig on frickin' Craigslist? If somebody can play like Petrucci or Rudess, they have all the work they can handle. And why do they need YOU?"

He hung up.

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Please explain to me how it would be possible to get close to a Gary Moore style solo as in Parisienne Walkways.


If you can play that well to come close to Gary Moore's solo and style in general, you don't need software to generate the solos. Use it for the Hammond pads and such, but play the guitar yourself if you have those chops. And I don't know that the software was ever designed to try and copy other people's solos. It's a bunch of generic clips that you stitch together. They would get sued right into Puget Sound if they had a note for note rip of a Gary Moore solo.

The image of that reminds me of when a guy here posted an ad on Craigslist for players to do a Dream Theater tribute band. I called him JUST to ask him in person "If you can even find people who play at that level, do you think they are looking for a gig on frickin' Craigslist? If somebody can play like Petrucci or Rudess, they have all the work they can handle. And why do they need YOU?"

He hung up.


Eddie's right. A UserTrack or Artist Performance Track will do the trick. And bypassing the legalities, BIAB software will accept a note for note rip off of a Gary Moore solo if you wish. The capability is built into the programming and design of the software to work combined with RealTracks, Supermidi and Midi. PG Music would not be involved with the content produced.

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Several things. No one can play like Gary Moore and for sure not me.

I have no intent to do a cover of a Gary Moore song.

Obviously if I could come close to playing his solo I would not need BIAB to do that. I have played a cover version live. Did it sound just like Gary Moore, no. Could you recognize the solo, yes.

If I did create a note for note cover using BIAB and played it live in a club no one would say a word as long as the club had their ducks lined up.

PG Music is not responsible for how I use there product. I may have signed some agreement by purchasing their software that I am unaware of but that is another issue.

No one here or PG Music knows if I have permission to cover any song.

All this abject fear of copywrite infringement is a function of not understand what is legal and what is not.

There are hundreds of Gary Moore covers on youtube. Is that a good thing? Depends on who you ask. If you post a link to one of them does that make PG Music responsible for copywrite infringement?

There is no midi file on earth that can be made to sound like Gary Moore or me or you or anyone else. His solo can be written in standard notation, note for note and then what? You still have to play it.

I would like someone to take one measure of a Gary Moore solo or any one else for that matter and recreate it in BIAB. In fact I will play you one bar of a solo and post the file and you duplicate it in BIAB.

Please just show me.


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<< I would like someone to take one measure of a Gary Moore solo or any one else for that matter and recreate it in BIAB. In fact I will play you one bar of a solo and post the file and you duplicate it in BIAB.

Please just show me. >>

I have an BIAB project that I've recreated a backing track to replace most of the original instrumentation. I did sample some 'signature' parts including the solo but I'm not sure that is what you're really seeking. My speculation is you mean to use custom, distinct signature riffs, solos created from existing BIAB RealTrack audio files content.

While signature parts don't exist in existing BIAB included or provided content, the program itself provides the means to create and include these parts in any BIAB project. If you play one bar of a solo and post the file, I can duplicate it in BIAB. Anyone can do the same with one measure of a Gary Moore solo or anyone else as well. Digital editing and sampling has progressed to such a level that simple software like Audacity is capable of isolating and capturing high quality samples that can be used in a DAW or BIAB.

Billy, if you or anyone is interested in downloading and reviewing and studying my recent BIAB project SGU that includes the 'sampled' tracks and a reference of the original song and final render can PM me for the Dropbox link and I'll provide the link you can download.

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Charlie,

Once again, you are proving yourself to be a stand up guy.

Just like you did when I needed help a year or less ago.

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Thanks Charlie, I will PM you. I certainly would like to understand this process.

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Charlie,

Once again, you are proving yourself to be a stand up guy.

Just like you did when I needed help a year or less ago.

Thanks


Thanks for your kind words Bob. Much appreciated.

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<< I would like someone to take one measure of a Gary Moore solo or any one else for that matter and recreate it in BIAB.
Please just show me. >>



Well this is not Gary, but it is the entire solo of another guy who you may recognize. And yes, this was completed in BIAB (VST) in Reaper for recording and mixing.

https://soundcloud.com/dan-hoch-784636941/spell-on-you


And if you are interested in seeing how this was done, I believe the curtains were fully pulled back in this thread from several months ago. Or maybe you had something else in mind?

https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=608422&Searchpage=1&Main=84117&Words=spell&Search=true#Post608458


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