![]() ![]() I can control my jam tracks without leaving my chair. I use a dual mono to stereo 1/8" to connect my iPad to the AX8. The other advantage of using the iReal Pro app with a Fractal Audio Systems AX8 or AxeFX2 (I have both), is connecting my iPad to stereo input 2 and being able to output both the full steel rig and iPad to a speakers (full range flat response) without a separate mixer. Otherwise just use any of these programs to jam along with your steel, which is worth it no matter which way you go. If you are going to use tracks live, use Ableton Live on a laptop. I'd spend my time learning how to get to the recording phase instead of learning how to master BIAB. One thing that's cool about BIAB is that you can export the MIDI performance to your DAW and use virtual instruments for the rhythm section. BIAB or iReal Pro is going to sound like a MIDI band. If you want to make your own sounds, get Pro Tools or any DAW and start a home studio, otherwise just use your iPad. You can download chord progressions to hundreds of standards, or quickly make your own without ever reading a manual. It's basically a simpler version of BIAB. If you have an iPad, iPhone, or Mac, download the iReal Pro app. It's overkill if you want to just play along. The keyboard shortcuts don't make any sense. Here's a link with a summary recording process where I added in BIAB: ![]() Here's a link that show's most of my current process before I added BIAB: BIAB with RealBand and RealTracks can come pretty close though. Or you can start with a DAW like Reaper and record your own bass, rhythm tracks, drums with EZDrummer (just and example) and voila you have a custom track that is totally real and can end on beat 5 or beat 7 or have real drum accents and come out sounding like a real band.Īny totally easy, no hard learning, low effort, turnkey route is NOT going to give you custom sounding tracks. Yes, you can start with BIAB and add the other stuff later. I actually record my real tracks onto a Zoom R24 recorder then port those to a PC where I join them with the BIAB/EZDrummer/EZKeys tracks inside of Reaper. I use whatever parts BIAB gives me with RealTracks that fills the bill and roll my own to get a more custom and real sound. For example if you want custom sounding intros, endings, drum and bass parts you might want to learn how to edit midi patterns in BIAB or add your own bass parts recorded live or perhaps just learn how to force BIAB to do certain things.įor shuffle beat type country songs I find it easier and more realistic to record my own bass parts, develop my drums in EZDrummer, piano with EZKeys or BIAB, Fiddle via BIAB or my own playing, Rhythm guitar my own live tracks or BIAB. The more studying and learning you commit to, the more you will get out of BIAB. If you want more realistic tracks you will want to upgrade to BIAB RealBand with RealTracks (more money!). You buy a radial saw then discover you want and need a planer, router, bits, more blades, sander, jigs to do more advanced projects.īand In A Box is a great place to start and get your feet wet just making tracks. But, I'm only using it as a practice tool, not to generate something "realistic" sounding to use on a gig.It's hard to answer your question without offering a ton of suggestions based on my experience. I think I paid for the upgrade once, but the times I've tried to activate the real tracks (instead of the General MIDI defaults) it didn't work, so I've never used them. BIAB has RealTracks, which are sample based, but they are (or used to be) an extra charge. The audio quality on both of them is pretty.lounge. It is more expensive than iReal, but for shedding on tunes it's by far my favorite. The UI is very Windows 98 and his its own quirks, but being able to access it via a proper keyboard and mouse, and the much larger screen real estate make it a lot more usable for me. Their ideas of groove names, and the variety of grooves is.weird.īand-In-Box is my favorite for practicing with at home. ![]() ![]() If you're just downloading existing charts, it's fine-if you're trying to create your own charts, and the tune has any arrangement twists, it's a pain in the ass. For me it's downside is the user interface, which is clumsy and non-intuitive to me, ever after using it for a year or so. IReal Pro's advantage is that you can run it on a tablet, so you can use it for charts on a gig (this is super common in Seattle jazz gigs), and since so many other people are using it, you can mail each other charts in a common format. I do have and use iReal Pro, both the desktop and mobile version, and Band-In-Box. ![]()
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