Hello everyone, I'm a new member of this group. In talking with Liam I learned
he was
unaware of a really good BiaB like application I've been using it's Jammer Pro
from
http://www.soundtrek.com. It is similar to BiaB, which I also use extensively,
but to my
way of thinking it's much more flexible when you want to tweak the performances
of your
`band'. Via windows that let you choose performance attributes using weighted
percentages for each of your musicians you can tweak things like, play fewer
notes over
these four bars, or double the piano left hand here, use chromatic passing
tones. play in
this note range, and many others. Each time you hit the compose button the
player will
give you a new version of the parameters you select till you hear something you
like. The
mixing window is better than BiaB as well since it lets you control velocities
as well as
levels. It's best to check it out at their site. Lawrence is the guy who answers
the phone. He
is extremely nice and very helpful. I think he may be the owner but I don't
remember for
sure. They didn't used to have as many styles available as BiaB and they used to
be a little
weak in the latin feel area. But I got some very satisfactory performances on
stuff like
Round Midnight or Four on Six and plenty of other jazz tunes. This is a windows
only app.
My cheif complaint about this program. And it's been updated several times since
I bought
my version 10 years ago.. You can get a track to practice over quicker in BiaB
but any
application with more `power' is usually more complex to use. I got this
application at the
same time I was learning to play guitar and use computers. It wasn't that hard
to learn to
use. The manual is very good.



BiaB:
Also are you guys aware of notesnorton.com? Bob Norton a sax player has tons of
cheap
styles for biab that can be pretty fun. His stuff seems a little busy sometimes
and he
boosts the velocity on all his styles to hit your sound card or module a bit
harder and may
get a better sound. But in study after study, people will always pick the sound
that's 3 db
hotter as sounding "better". Also I found it a bit inconvenient to have to turn
down my
sound module each time I used one of his styles. But his stuff is worth a
listen.

Ron