Cakewalk and Band in a box.

[Terry Kelley]

I've found it often sounds "canned" but it's good for inspiration and working our chords and changes.

In the end, I replay all of the parts myself but can't play as well as many of the Real stuff. Once in a rare blue moon BIAB will create something I can't reproduce even if it's just for the feeling (e.g. I am a terrible steel player) and I will keep some part of it. But I avoid using too much of its output. But as a buddy said, if I tried to sound like myself I would fail. 

But the inspiration is the best part.

Edited 6 hours ago by Terry Kelley

[Sal Sorice]

43 minutes ago, Glenn Stanton said:

i use BIAB real tracks to generate solos - i'll create a project with the chord changes for the solo section(s) and an approximate style (or sometimes a wholly different one) and rerun the solo generate over and over until i get a performance i like (much like a session where it's being created by the player on the fly) then solo the solo track and export it. guitars and sax seem to work pretty well, many others are not so great. i don't use the MIDI because it never sounds authenticate, and converting it to MIDI is very seldom something i would do either.

I'm going to try that ASAP on a song of mine. Want a guitar solo section but I'm a keyboard player. From your description @Glenn Stanton, looks like that might work out great! Any pointers or tutorials you can point me to that go into detail on the process?

[Misha]

Try this method:

 

 

[Sal Sorice]

42 minutes ago, Misha said:

Try this method:

 

 

Thanks @Misha! I will give your procedure a try.

[Glenn Stanton]

4 hours ago, Sal Sorice said:

I'm going to try that ASAP on a song of mine. Want a guitar solo section but I'm a keyboard player. From your description @Glenn Stanton, looks like that might work out great! Any pointers or tutorials you can point me to that go into detail on the process?

i found that simplifying the chords used and/or having chords span over several chord changes let's the solo generator produce smoother soloing rather than trying to create bits on each chord. for example, if there are 5 chord changes over two bars, i'll see if i can get an approximation using just 2 or 3 chords, and removing things like 7th 9th b13 etc (unless i am looking for more jazzy solo) 🙂 

[Sal Sorice]

3 hours ago, Glenn Stanton said:

i found that simplifying the chords used and/or having chords span over several chord changes let's the solo generator produce smoother soloing rather than trying to create bits on each chord. for example, if there are 5 chord changes over two bars, i'll see if i can get an approximation using just 2 or 3 chords, and removing things like 7th 9th b13 etc (unless i am looking for more jazzy solo) 🙂 

Thanks @Glenn Stanton. Will take that into consideration. Appreciate your help!

[Sock Monkey]

And as I said once you have the real track close you edit it with Melodyne. Best to have Studio version. I’ve done 2 steel guitar tracks that way.