Hi Ron,

I had a look at JammerPro on the soundtrek site. Seems to have a few
advantages over Biab in terms of flexibility. I tried going to
notesnorton.com but I couldn't get anything to come up. I tried it
as http://notesnorton.com and http://www.notesnorton.com but no
success. Is that the correct URL?

Regards, Liam

--- In bluesette@yahoogroups.com, "Ron Becker" <ron45@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>