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Currently all BIAB backing instruments ( or parts/players ) excluding melody/soloist/thru are limited to just 5.
It would be cool, particularly when doing serious production to have backing tracks with more than this. often when transferring a BIAB arrangement to logic or Live i use the BIAB parts as a jumping off point, and then tweak the MIDI parts. But having just bass, drums, piano strings and guitar ( or more generically - bass, drums, keys, part1 , part 2 ) is too limiting,
For example percussion parts get mixed into the one drum track whereas it would be good to be able to put percussion hits on a seperate track.
So having radio buttons and NEW STYLES that support radio buttons : bass, piano, drums, guitar , strings, part1, part2, part3 would be cool. This is 8 MIDI backing tracks which should cover more ground stylistically. Hardware arranger style ( for yamaha, roland etc ) often support more than this. but i think just 3 more tracks would be cool.
Remember - often such extra tracks dont contain very busy stuff, just "fill in stuff" but they can make a lot of difference.
And heres a big point. Just because we now have great REAL AUDIO backing parts shouldnt diminish the usefullness of MIDI parts in an arrangement. In a huge way thy are essential for PRODUCTION since we can manipilate MIDI tracks inside our sequencers to get the precise notes, whereas ( unless we use Melodyne or such ) we typically wont want to be doing this with the RealTracks.
Also we usually end up using a different instrument plugin for the MIDI tracks to personalise our sequence production arrangements.
Last edited by nonchai; 05/11/10 10:02 AM.
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This good idea has surfaced many times before. Unfortunately, there are more than eight tracks in use. BIAB has additional tracks allocated for harmony (11 through 14) and for separate guitar strings. Given the limitation of one output device, it seems like it would be difficult to add three more tracks to the program.
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Besides there are tons of loops, and other media to add things to a mix. Percussion is abundant. Midi allows so much to be added. a current midi piano track could be stripped and turned into so many other tracks. The possibilities are limitless.
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shame. seems to me to be force to sacrifice those extra backing parts just for ( imo gimmicky ) harmonys/solo/ seperate gtr parts is bad design.
Istn BIAB meant to be about generating cool backing parts ?
Im sure some scheme could be worked out, whereby one either chooses to be in PURE BACKING TRACK mode ( ie no harmony/solo stuff - just backing tracks ) or "NOVELTY" mode, where one gets
the current 5 tracks plus harmony etc etc.
Althugh theres always loops etc, the great thing about working with BIAB parts as much as possible is that one can easily make changes to the arrangement - add/change chords etc. Once one is force to freeze stuff and work solely inside the sequencer as one must, making global changes is a lot harder.
Personally i'd like to be able to specify loops and custom MIDI snippets in our arrangements - and then have them follow any structural changes we make to a song.
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