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I'm searching for a particular drum groove for a song I'm working on and so I search the offerings in the Style Picker.
Is it possible to solo only the drums when auditioning the styles?

I find that all the other instruments in the band end up distracting me from my mission of searching for the right drum groove.
Isolating the drums during the search would make things a lot easier.

I know I can select any given style, then have the chord sheet drone on C for example and solo the drums but that's a time consuming process when auditioning many possible styles.

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Maybe the script "CSVQF Biab Multi Picker Injector" by forum member musocity can be used.

It is a very efficient tool for auditing styles, instruments and drums. So much more efficient than the style, RT and drum pickers.

It takes a little time to get used to and set up the script and environment but it is a big help narrow down the search.

https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=775809#Post775809

(I think you can audit the selection of drums effectively and narrow down the criteria but I don't think you can audit them against the style itself)

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This came up the other day. You can't solo with the Pre-made Demo, but you can Solo from the Style Picker with the song that is loaded into BiaB:

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AudioTrack beat me to the punch! I will add that you must press play, it is right under Actions in his picture, to hear those drums .

BUT, if you put a request for adding a solo icon in the wishlist forum you will have my vote.

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Originally Posted by shlind
Maybe the script "CSVQF Biab Multi Picker Injector" by forum member musocity can be used.
Thanks for the idea but I'm rather conservative when it comes to adding to or altering software products; there's too many things that can go wrong.
I'd rather continue with a relatively slow/inefficient way of doing things than risk messing something up and potentially cause unstable behaivor elsewhere in BiaB.


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Originally Posted by AudioTrack
This came up the other day. You can't solo with the Pre-made Demo, but you can Solo from the Style Picker with the song that is loaded into BiaB:
Thanks AudioTrack, I should have stated that I already knew about your suggestion. Materially, it's not any different from selecting a candidate style and then soloing the instrument (drums in this case).

But I'm just now realizing that a better approach to obtain a suitable drum groove is a subset of a suggestion/wish I made back in June regarding an AI-driven approach.

Rather than select a candidate drum groove from a static and limited database of possible drum grooves on a hit-or-miss-basis, the software would create a drum groove based on an audio sample that it was given as a target.

https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=101811&Number=769911

So this approach would not only deliver a cutomized style that the user desires, but also the individualized instruments (like drums) that contribute to that style.
In principal, the training sets could be music already recorded by the PG Music musicians, or scraped from the web or even from FM radio. I understand that today's LLM Chatbots were trained similarly. In the minds of tech companies large and small, AI is the future.

[Now I just have to remember not to ask this same question again when I find myself needing a specific guitar or organ tone crazy ]


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Why aren't you auditioning the individual drum tracks from the Drum Picker, just like you would audition any instrument RT from the RT picker.? This would like you solo drums or play with your song. What am I missing here?

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Originally Posted by shlind
Maybe the script "CSVQF Biab Multi Picker Injector" by forum member musocity can be used.
Thanks for the idea but I'm rather conservative when it comes to adding to or altering software products; there's too many things that can go wrong.
I'd rather continue with a relatively slow/inefficient way of doing things than risk messing something up and potentially cause unstable behaivor elsewhere in BiaB.
It won't do that, it's like using Studio One it won't cause issues with Biab, you had some issues trying to tempo map but you did not give up you stuck with it and got it sorted. Some users are scared to use anything else but Biab.

You also have
Style Picker Mixer (Control Mixer from Style Picker)

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Originally Posted by MusicStudent
Why aren't you auditioning the individual drum tracks from the Drum Picker, just like you would audition any instrument RT from the RT picker.? This would like you solo drums or play with your song. What am I missing here?
Makes sense to me smile


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Originally Posted by MusicStudent
Why aren't you auditioning the individual drum tracks from the Drum Picker, just like you would audition any instrument RT from the RT picker.?
That's exactly what I was hoping I could do Dan. This program is so large I never ventured into that menu sequence before.
Thanks!


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