The poor man's machine equivalent (nearly) of walking up to a band in any genre and shouting out chords to them and waiting to hear what they do with them - sometimes awful, sometimes inspiring. So you don't provide elaborate chord voicings, you just minimally identify the chords and allow the style to generate the stylistic voicings. They are all about you providing your own chord progressions - via step time in an editable grid - or via you playing real time (with 'chord assist' functions) - and then hearing those chord progressions get played in different styles - all of which becomes exportable MIDI. These are every bit as weird as BiaB but much smaller. Simplest answer (and another recommendation) is to watch the Groove3 tutorial packs for BiaB and decide for yourself. I bet my description above is enough to deter people and leave them saying "why would I bother?",įair enough - but the answer is 'the end result is fabulous' - it just takes effort. In contrast, people 'starting with' today's release and then trying to patch in the missing history face a huge nightmare. If all of that sounds excessive, then you're still underestimating the work required to 'do it yourself'. Then update with subsequent further MIDI packs when you know what you're doing. Download a littlewierdo complete pack from 2019, and then just leave out the folders containing the large 'realstyles' 'realdrums'. The best way to get a tidy, small, but complete MIDI-only version is almost the same. So, bizarrely, in some ways the best way to get a full up to date BiaB today is still to start with a clean ( complete at that time) 2019 version from littlewierdo, and then carefully manage the subsequent updates that have been released since (App, midi-styles, realstyles) Many times, littlewierdo recommended "trust me - just download my completed clean version and start with that - it's simpler that way" - and he was always right! Many people underestimated just how hard it really was to end up with a complete clean tidy package and continued to unrealistically bicker about getting just the bits they wanted. (bear in mind that this is/was a mess that the vendors PGMusic had never solved!) (3) As many of the 'real' (audio) styles as you want (always optional)Īssembling (2) was the hardest task and littlewierdo did a really great job of helping with that. (2) ALL of the midi styles and extras packs released over decades (that's highly desirable but not easy) (1) the most up to date version of the BiaB application (but that's not urgent) ![]() Your goal should be to (eventually) end up with These 'realstyles' (audio files) are always optional (even if some people regard them as essential) and they are what make the package large. You need to understand how BiaB refer to styles.Īll styles, and extra styles, and artiste packs, etc, (ad infinitum) are MIDIīUT they also supplement styles using audio (always called 'real' e.g., realstyles or realdrums). If you're serious about tackling BiaB then I highly recommend seeing posts at sister site May 2019, July 2019, Dec 2019 and read through the extensive comments. See the comments in many of the subsequent releases and you'll probably find someone who has started there will be there saying "hey why am I missing stuff?". Since then further updates have been released and it has been up to each well-informed user to accommodate them as best they can - it takes effort! - you have to understand the package. ![]() Many people nagged and said "why can't it be simpler?" - but it just is NOT - and what littlewierdo was doing was a major achievement. In 2019 (May - December) there were versions 'PG Music Band-in-a-Box 2018 2019' on sister site.Īt that time a member 'littlewierdo' undertook the herculean task of assembling ALL the previously released bits and pieces into a complete version. (and bizarrely, you couldn't even do that just by trying to "buy it all" today) It is a major undertaking to achieve a complete up to date system. ![]() And the history of its releases and updates is an insane mess My long answer ( littered with subjective biased opinions) About BiaB.Īlthough it's brilliant, it's also a mess.
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