

I added some keyboard chord hits because the loops are repetitive (there's only one for each key/style). Here's an example of a song done by find the drums parts I wanted, and using the bass and keyboard some of the time, but sweetening both manyually for certain sections. These can be divided into single or quarter measures. With each of these are two measure tracks for bass, guitar, keyboard and sax. In each key, there are 12 chord types, Major, Major 7th, Minor, Minor 7b5, etc. Downloading the loops as files is better for me, but it's more manula labor to create a track.Įach style, with names like Fast Funk, Gospel Shuffle, Slow Shuffle, is organized as follows:ĭRUMS: Two or three variations (ride, stick, etc), and 12 keys. Incidentally, there's an iOS app the same people produce, but I tried it and it's not work-th using on a small device. This product is called SessionBand, Soul Jazz Funk Volume 2, featuring licks of Kirk Whalum and four UK musicians on drums, bass, guitar and keys. In my first productions with the loop collection, which are delivered differently, I chose a drum groove from one of the 18 styles. It also has one of the least coherent, most confusing interfaces of any complex software.
BAND IN A BOX VS IREAL PRO PRO
It has limited funk stuff and the sounds are real, so they're far better than iReal Pro in that regard.
BAND IN A BOX VS IREAL PRO FULL
BiaB, full of well-known foibles, does a very good job on jazz, swing and ballads. iReal Pro produces a workable practice track, but to record a song, I do not find it good enough. How could I resist these collections when one has Bob Reynolds and the other Kirk Whalum? I'm thinking of the value of listening to the various sax parts, usually two bars long, as a way to better understand the player. I recently acquired two collections of loops, both of which have saxophone loops included!Īctually, I don't use sax or guitar loops as the whole point is to play the insrument.

(What are loops? they are short files, audio or MIDI, with one or more instruments).

What I wondered about is whether many of you have used loops. Most everyone here who records is familiar with backing tracks, whether downloaded or made with BiaB.
