You can save a song in BB (SGU) then open it in the BB VST but you can also so work directly from the BB VST in you DAW without going near the Band in a Box app. The drag export/import I was talking about is just to get the midi chords and chord name markers into a DAW and to get the tempo map and time signature changes the same way Superior Drummer 3 now works to get tempo map and time signature changes. Yes you can bring midi tracks from BB or RealCharts/RealDrumCharts that are the midi notation of the RealTracks/RealDrums. Yes it is constantly being improved and features added. He and I spent the last ten minutes of the soundcheck with the paper concertinas all over the stage floor, frantically copying chord symbols across from the piano part. I once did a gig with very little get-together time and during some rather abortive run-throughs I was horrified to learn at the 11th hour that the bass parts had been written note-for-note. PPS Funny story about fully written bass parts.
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I regard BIAB as the software successor to that. The sounds were '90s farty, but it was very useful. I used Yamaha QY hardware sequencers for years - for practicing, writing and experimenting. I've never done a recording when I've told a rhythm player EXACTLY what to do ALL the time, so a few rolls of the dice in BIAB to get to something that's pretty close is for me a natural way of working.
Not to offend guitarists, or bassists or drummers, but they do spend most of their life on a kind of patterned autopilot. I'm a pianist but at best a campfire guitarist, so I sometimes use the auto-generated rhythm guitars.
If you're not a scorehound, you could easily adapt the approach to "My Bass", "BIAB Bass", "My Drums", "BIAB Drums". So my track stack usually looks like "Sib Bass" "BIAB Bass", "Sib Drums", "BIAB Drums". Once done, combining that with BIAB output it's easy to edit out the doublings - at bits when you want the bass or drums to be playing precisely what you've written, edit out the BIAB pattern. I just score to metronome on the downbeat for Latin and pop and on 2 and 4 for jazz.
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And why sweat it anyway - nobody's ever going to read your full bass and drum parts. When you're dealing with a large band, life's too short to be scoring bass, drums and percussion note-for-note.
I write "slash, fills and occasional detail" parts for these instruments in Sib which only sound the written detail. It's like giving a lead sheet to musicians. I also use it as a bass, drums and perc auto-sequencer for scoring jazz, Latin and pop. Or making your own playalongs just for practice. I know cruise musicians who swear by it -the ents officer is always coming up with some bloody silly idea for tomorrow night.Īlso good for putting together a "this kind of vibe" reference recording to send to bands (usually along with parts). It's great for knocking up remarkably convincing generic (and they cover a lot of genres) backing tracks in minutes. Perhaps if you got really stuck into MIDI editing, but that loses the advantage of the stitched-together sampled RealTracks. I don't think it's really quite ready for that kind of precision work. A bit off-topic, but I have tried BiaB & thought it worked OK, especially the more recent iterations.īut the big sticking point for me has always been that the end result is never ever going to be exactly what I wanted to hear & the effort involved in editing BIAB`s output has always been more for me than if I just sequenced the various parts myself.Īm I missing some kind of magic workflow speeder-upper?Ĭan you tailor your own "styles" within BiaB?Īs it is, it just feels like all those arranger keyboards of yester year to me.
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