Just like you, I use a DAW. In my case I use LOGIC PRO X. The basic trax is made in BIAB (drums, bass, guitars, piano, organ, etc). Then I export the whole trax to wave files and I import the indivudual tracks to Logic, where I tweak each track to my liking. After that I add other instruments like synths, brasses, strings and my voice, of course.
Really helpful, it's one of those things that seem obvious when someone suggests recording each track for the whole song and then fading them in an out with a DAW, but I don't think I would ever have thought of of it myself.
Hi Henry….I’m a retired musician who insanely decided to start doing live gigs again. I bought the Pro version of BIAB, because of your videos and I subscribed to your channel. I’m learning a ton and wanted to say thanks….I’ve got a looooong way to go….but please keep creating content…it’s invaluable.
Great ideas here. I'm pretty new to BIAB and yesterday I was stuck and getting frustrated trying to program a BIAB conga part during an interlude only. Creating BIAB parts from the beginning of the song, then cutting and cropping in my DAW is going to be so much easier. Thanks!
Hi Henry. Thanks a lot for your video. It´s very inspiring to see the way you integrate BIAB into your DAW. For many years ago I was a user of the program but skipped it. When I see what the program is capable of doing now, I think it is the time to return:) Your way of using it makes so much sense to me, and I am sure, I will end up with a workflow very much alike it. Kind regards, Gert
Thank you for the comment. I honestly had the program for quite a few years before I decided to dive deeper into it and understand it a bit more. I still don't know everything but what I do learn I try to share on the channel.
I also use a DAW (Reaper) and usually just drag from Biab to Reaper one track at a time. I'm learning to use Cakewalk by Bandlab but after years of Reaper, it's quite a learning curve, so for production projects I return to Reaper for now. Always helpful videos from you. Thanks again Mr. Clarke!
@@henryclarke5407 Hi Mr. Clarke. Cakewalk is free (monetarily) and I like to learn new stuff anyway. Heck, I even played around with Realband for awhile. :-) I am comfortable with Reaper though, so am not in a crunch to switch.
Another great video. Thank you for doing this. Any compensation you may receive is well earned. I always enjoy your songs, great voice and wonderful job making the song. I will have to go to spotify and listen to them all. Thanks again.
Well thanks for watching. I really don't do this for money but if there is an opportunity to earn a little change I should at least make it possible. I do hope you get the chance to hear some of me on Spotify. I'm not sure of your favorite genre but most of my success there is with pure soul music. BIAB falls a little short in that arena though I do have a couple of songs created in BIAB in my top 10 most popular. Thanks again.
Great to see someone else using BB and Cakewalk and Focusrite. This is the core of my production along with Melodyne and other plugins. Would love to hear more tips and ideas on how to combine the two. I also don't use the plugin, and I actually just drag from BB to cakewalk rather than saving the audio to disk.
@@henryclarke5407 thanks! I don't have any specific questions really as I've been doing this a long time as well, just enjoy watching you do the same stuff I do as there is always more little tricks to pick up with both band in a box and cakewalk and you are the first channel i've found that does both like me
Outstanding and such a great help when putting together a song....you forgot to mention when rendering check the separate tracks box to folder otherwise they are all saved as one mp3 song.I use MIXCRAFT 9 Pro DAW....Thanx for all your help....more more more
Mr. Clark, I noticed you use Cakewalk with BIAB. My version of BIAB works stand alone, but when I try to pick a setting while inside the daw, it won't select the style, etc. Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss a step, or do I need to rearrange settings? Thanks!
I only use the DAW for transferring tracks over AFTER I created the composition in BIAB. I don't pick styles and arrangement inside the DAW plugin. I've found it to be inconsistent and I don't want to end up trying to get something to work in lieu of creating music.
I really like you song here and the vocals quite a bit. I just got BIAB a week ago and I use Reaper. I am not very good with audio stuff. My singing is the worst. I have the range of an arrow made of warm butter. But it distracts from my guitar playing lol. I did not know I could tranfer the tracks to use in Reaper. Thanks for that:)
Hi Henry. I am new this week to BIAB. Not new to DAWs (Studio One, Cakewalk). Have you ever run into an issue where the Style Picker comes up and allows selection, but does not change the style? Fumbling through this, I got the stand-alone working by clicking the "Rebuild" button. However in the VST the Rebuild did nothing and I was stuck with the default Jazz style. I tried different things and eventually got it working by accident. As a software developer I don't like accidents. I would like to know the exact procedure. I tried running the DAW as Administrator, setting the default in the "Preferences" (Did not change). Until some combination caused it to start working. Any ideas?
I don't use the plug-in to build my songs. To unreliable. I create the songs in standalone BIAB and import them into my DAW. I find it less problematic.
Hey Henry, I was checking out the links to your equipment and noticed the Tascam DP32. I was wondering if you use this or you DAW more. I have a Rolland VS 2480 that I've had for years, but hardly ever use because it's so complicated. It does come in handy though for live recordings of a band where you may need 16 tracks recording simultaneously (bussing the drums down to 2 tracks). I've downloaded Cakewalk, although I haven't started using it yet as I'm still compiling my BIAB tracks. I was just wondering, is using Cakewalk any easier than using the Tascam? I know it's probably much easier to drag or export your BIAB tracks over to.
If you have a good interface (like in my opinion Focusrite) it's easier to record directly into Cakewalk and it's easier to mix on a standard computer monitor than trying to mix in the little DP-32 windows. I don't use the DP32 as much in doing solo projects. I find I don't need to.
Olá, Henry! Sou do Brasil e fiquei conhecendo suas músicas a pouco tempo e estou amando. Sua voz é incrível e suas músicas maravilhosas. Só fico triste por não ter as letras para aprender a cantar.
How do you print the chords on a music staff directly from Band in a box? 😅 that would help a lot! Any chance you have made a video where you mention this?
Sorry. I don't use sheet music for anything since I have no band members I want to give the music to. I compose all my musc alone and if I want to insert an instrument I just play it live. Sorry.
Henry, I've had BIAB 2022 for about 3 weeks now and have already completed a song following your guide by moving it to Band Lab Cakewalk for editing. My question: What auto tune plugin do you use? I had the old Sonar and it was equipped with V-vocal. I miss having that plugin. I want to sincerely thank you for all your help. With no users manual you have been soooo much help!
Hi Jean. IO use "Autotune Live". It's been updated so you probably cannot get it anymore. There is a link in my video description that will take you to Amazon and you can see versions of Autotune that may be suitable for your budget. Thanks for the kind words and I'm glad the video was/is helpful.
I've never heard anyone talking about the stylemaker feature in BIAB. Over the years I've used it extensively to create Caribbean styles since its a very neglected area. Well except for a few wimpy reggae. There's millions of us musicians out here. Maybe recently since I have last upgraded in 2019. Is that feature still in BIAB?
Yes Stylemaker is a feature. I found it to be too much trouble. I try to weigh how much programming I want to do in BIAB and how muc music I want to make. When the programming overcomes the music I decide to move on.
Hello Henry I have just started using Cakewalk and I'm working on piecing together audio snippets one bar at a time but now I want to fuse them all together as one. f you could advise me how I can do that I would be very grateful. Wally Ray Singer / Entertainer in Florida
Why would you want to do that? If the audio snippets are separated on the same track why fuse them together? If you really want to do that you can do a merge on the track or you can export the single track as a wav file and all the track will be merged as one.
@@henryclarke5407 OK, I'll wait till I'm ready to export the tracks as one whole wav file. Thanks Henry! I really enjoy your videos as I'm just learning all this fairly recently. I'm creating tracks to sing along to that I can't find on karaoke sites or standalone soundtracks. And or songs I write! PS - I am using BIAB 2019 and I can't figure out how to add extra real track along with midi tracks. I might have to upgrade to 2021 or greater and use utility track. Thank you❗
@@handyman5475 If you do not have utility tracks in my opinion, you're missing out on the best capability upgrade to BIAB in years. ruclips.net/video/XiPqQjISmb4/видео.html
I Have a 2021 1 less than the total..My problem is that it does NOT play the drum when i find what i want as music press ok it goes to the main screen it plays all the instru,ment but NO DRUM..I hope you can help me what am i doing wrong.. Thanx..
I'm not sure what's wrong. I do know that sometimes people play the demos and when they try to use some of the Realtracks they are not included in the version that they purchased. I hear this a lot from people who bought BIAB Pro or MegaPak. Just at a guess that could be the problem. Have you tried other drumsets?
@@henryclarke5407 Thanx ...I Have the Ultra pack 2021 when i want the song Achy breaky heart on demo it plays all instrument what shoving on the left side.. when press ok to put it on the main screen it will not play the drum..
Sort of begs the question. Why even bother with BiaB? That’s where my head is. & you don’t like RealBand DAW. I thought the Bennie of that was tight integration with BiaB
That's where he gets most of the instrument files. I do exactly the same thing but I use Reaper. It would be impossible to get the same results trying to use real band.
Please elaborate. My main DAW is Logic. What does BIAB do, provide the scaffolding then you just basically swap out instruments and do advanced things in the DAW?
@@ColleenKitchen Let's take a step back. Based on your question I'm not sure you're that familiar with the BIAB Suite. The suite is comprised of BIAB and Realband. Basically BIAB is the composition tool (Composing the song with styles, chords, realtracks, etc..). Realband is the DAW where you get to refine your composition. A lot of users use BIAB for composition but do not use Realband in refining their song. They use 3rd party commercial DAWs like your mention of Reaper. So you're not "swapping" out instruments. You're "exporting" the instruments and importing into the DAW of your choice. In this video I show how I take ALL the BIAB tracks (core and utility tracks), import them into Cakewalk by Bandlab, and "massage" the song. I also add the vocals and MIDI strings in the DAW because I like the way it records so much better than Realband . So when you say "why bother" with BIAB. that's confusing. You "bother" with BIAB because that's where you created your core music. This has NOTHING to do with Realband. Yes RB is integrated with BIAB but a lot of people use things other than BIAB to compose or "compliment" their BIAB compositions. For example a lot of my music is NOT created with BIAB. I also use other techniques to include loops and live recording. It's easier to use a DAW that fits the bill across the board. In my case I selected Cakewalk by BandLab but there are tons of others in the marketplace. Does that make sense?
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Never even considered any other way. I've done over 200 songs since Jan 2021. Love your vids!
Just like you, I use a DAW. In my case I use LOGIC PRO X. The basic trax is made in BIAB (drums, bass, guitars, piano, organ, etc). Then I export the whole trax to wave files and I import the indivudual tracks to Logic, where I tweak each track to my liking. After that I add other instruments like synths, brasses, strings and my voice, of course.
Yes. We use the same technique. In my case I also do a lot of stuff that's not BIAB so I need the luxury of knowing how to use a commercial DAW.
Same here. I often import the MIDI data, too, manipulate that using Logic's many excellent "instruments" and fatten up my tracks with that extra data.
I learned a lot from your videos this evening! Thanks! Greetings from Belgium.
Really helpful, it's one of those things that seem obvious when someone suggests recording each track for the whole song and then fading them in an out with a DAW, but I don't think I would ever have thought of of it myself.
Hi Henry….I’m a retired musician who insanely decided to start doing live gigs again. I bought the Pro version of BIAB, because of your videos and I subscribed to your channel. I’m learning a ton and wanted to say thanks….I’ve got a looooong way to go….but please keep creating content…it’s invaluable.
Thanks for watching and good luck. I hope the PRO version works for you. In all honesty I found it a bit limiting.
Thank Henry!! You are the man.. bsr settings is what I was looking for to add a song break!! Thank you sir!!
Thanks Henry for taking the time to make another very helpful video.
You're welcome. I'm glad it was helpful (though long) :-)
Super helpful. Look forward to all of your suggestions and thoughts on Band in the Box applications
Thanks. I have quite a few suggestions on my channel. I hope some of them can help you with your production efforts.
Thanks so much for sharing what must be hours and hours of experimentation, Henry. Also, got to say I really like your songs.
Thanks for listening
Great ideas here. I'm pretty new to BIAB and yesterday I was stuck and getting frustrated trying to program a BIAB conga part during an interlude only. Creating BIAB parts from the beginning of the song, then cutting and cropping in my DAW is going to be so much easier. Thanks!
For me DAWs make all the difference. It gives me more possibilities.
Thanks for the great info. I was pulling my hair out using BIAB inside my DAW due to freezing, slow processing etc.
Glad it helped!
Hi Henry. Thanks a lot for your video. It´s very inspiring to see the way you integrate BIAB into your DAW. For many years ago I was a user of the program but skipped it. When I see what the program is capable of doing now, I think it is the time to return:) Your way of using it makes so much sense to me, and I am sure, I will end up with a workflow very much alike it.
Kind regards, Gert
Thank you for the comment. I honestly had the program for quite a few years before I decided to dive deeper into it and understand it a bit more. I still don't know everything but what I do learn I try to share on the channel.
I also use a DAW (Reaper) and usually just drag from Biab to Reaper one track at a time. I'm learning to use Cakewalk by Bandlab but after years of Reaper, it's quite a learning curve, so for production projects I return to Reaper for now. Always helpful videos from you. Thanks again Mr. Clarke!
John, if Reaper works for you why would you change? I happen to use Cakewalk because I'm so comfortable with it.
@@henryclarke5407 Hi Mr. Clarke. Cakewalk is free (monetarily) and I like to learn new stuff anyway. Heck, I even played around with Realband for awhile. :-) I am comfortable with Reaper though, so am not in a crunch to switch.
Henry, PG Music would do well to pay you handsomely as an advisor to answer the question, “How to improve BIAB?”.
LOL I'm not sure they want to hear it from me but I wouldn't doubt if they peruse this channels comments from time to time :-)
I just subscribed 😊. I need this for BIAB and music production in Studio One. Thank you.
Another great video. Thank you for doing this.
Any compensation you may receive is well earned. I always enjoy your songs, great voice and wonderful job making the song. I will have to go to spotify and listen to them all.
Thanks again.
Well thanks for watching. I really don't do this for money but if there is an opportunity to earn a little change I should at least make it possible. I do hope you get the chance to hear some of me on Spotify. I'm not sure of your favorite genre but most of my success there is with pure soul music. BIAB falls a little short in that arena though I do have a couple of songs created in BIAB in my top 10 most popular. Thanks again.
Great to see someone else using BB and Cakewalk and Focusrite. This is the core of my production along with Melodyne and other plugins. Would love to hear more tips and ideas on how to combine the two. I also don't use the plugin, and I actually just drag from BB to cakewalk rather than saving the audio to disk.
I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for. Can you elaborate? I'll help any that I can.
@@henryclarke5407 thanks! I don't have any specific questions really as I've been doing this a long time as well, just enjoy watching you do the same stuff I do as there is always more little tricks to pick up with both band in a box and cakewalk and you are the first channel i've found that does both like me
Outstanding and such a great help when putting together a song....you forgot to mention when rendering check the separate tracks box to folder otherwise they are all saved as one mp3 song.I use MIXCRAFT 9 Pro DAW....Thanx for all your help....more more more
Correct. I did forget that though I did cover that in another video. I hope people will see your comment/suggestion. Thanks.
nice work Henry. great approach
Thaks a lot !!
Great job, Henry!
Thank You !!
Mr. Clark, I noticed you use Cakewalk with BIAB. My version of BIAB works stand alone, but when I try to pick a setting while inside the daw, it won't select the style, etc. Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss a step, or do I need to rearrange settings? Thanks!
I only use the DAW for transferring tracks over AFTER I created the composition in BIAB. I don't pick styles and arrangement inside the DAW plugin. I've found it to be inconsistent and I don't want to end up trying to get something to work in lieu of creating music.
I really like you song here and the vocals quite a bit. I just got BIAB a week ago and I use Reaper. I am not very good with audio stuff. My singing is the worst. I have the range of an arrow made of warm butter. But it distracts from my guitar playing lol. I did not know I could tranfer the tracks to use in Reaper. Thanks for that:)
:-)
Hi Henry. I am new this week to BIAB. Not new to DAWs (Studio One, Cakewalk). Have you ever run into an issue where the Style Picker comes up and allows selection, but does not change the style? Fumbling through this, I got the stand-alone working by clicking the "Rebuild" button. However in the VST the Rebuild did nothing and I was stuck with the default Jazz style. I tried different things and eventually got it working by accident. As a software developer I don't like accidents. I would like to know the exact procedure. I tried running the DAW as Administrator, setting the default in the "Preferences" (Did not change). Until some combination caused it to start working. Any ideas?
I don't use the plug-in to build my songs. To unreliable. I create the songs in standalone BIAB and import them into my DAW. I find it less problematic.
Hey Henry, I was checking out the links to your equipment and noticed the Tascam DP32. I was wondering if you use this or you DAW more. I have a Rolland VS 2480 that I've had for years, but hardly ever use because it's so complicated. It does come in handy though for live recordings of a band where you may need 16 tracks recording simultaneously (bussing the drums down to 2 tracks). I've downloaded Cakewalk, although I haven't started using it yet as I'm still compiling my BIAB tracks. I was just wondering, is using Cakewalk any easier than using the Tascam? I know it's probably much easier to drag or export your BIAB tracks over to.
If you have a good interface (like in my opinion Focusrite) it's easier to record directly into Cakewalk and it's easier to mix on a standard computer monitor than trying to mix in the little DP-32 windows. I don't use the DP32 as much in doing solo projects. I find I don't need to.
Olá, Henry! Sou do Brasil e fiquei conhecendo suas músicas a pouco tempo e estou amando. Sua voz é incrível e suas músicas maravilhosas. Só fico triste por não ter as letras para aprender a cantar.
Yes, I'll try to start doing that. Thanks.
@@henryclarke5407 Thanks, I'll be looking forward to it.
How do you print the chords on a music staff directly from Band in a box? 😅 that would help a lot! Any chance you have made a video where you mention this?
Sorry. I don't use sheet music for anything since I have no band members I want to give the music to. I compose all my musc alone and if I want to insert an instrument I just play it live. Sorry.
Henry, I've had BIAB 2022 for about 3 weeks now and have already completed a song following your guide by moving it to Band Lab Cakewalk for editing. My question: What auto tune plugin do you use? I had the old Sonar and it was equipped with V-vocal. I miss having that plugin. I want to sincerely thank you for all your help. With no users manual you have been soooo much help!
Hi Jean. IO use "Autotune Live". It's been updated so you probably cannot get it anymore. There is a link in my video description that will take you to Amazon and you can see versions of Autotune that may be suitable for your budget. Thanks for the kind words and I'm glad the video was/is helpful.
@@henryclarke5407 Thank you so much.
I've never heard anyone talking about the stylemaker feature in BIAB. Over the years I've used it extensively to create Caribbean styles since its a very neglected area. Well except for a few wimpy reggae. There's millions of us musicians out here. Maybe recently since I have last upgraded in 2019. Is that feature still in BIAB?
Yes Stylemaker is a feature. I found it to be too much trouble. I try to weigh how much programming I want to do in BIAB and how muc music I want to make. When the programming overcomes the music I decide to move on.
Hello Henry
I have just started using Cakewalk and I'm working on piecing together audio snippets one bar at a time but now I want to fuse them all together as one. f you could advise me how I can do that I would be very grateful.
Wally Ray
Singer / Entertainer in Florida
typo c. If you could advise
Why would you want to do that? If the audio snippets are separated on the same track why fuse them together? If you really want to do that you can do a merge on the track or you can export the single track as a wav file and all the track will be merged as one.
@@henryclarke5407 OK, I'll wait till I'm ready to export the tracks as one whole wav file. Thanks Henry! I really enjoy your videos as I'm just learning all this fairly recently. I'm creating tracks to sing along to that I can't find on karaoke sites or standalone soundtracks. And or songs I write!
PS - I am using BIAB 2019 and I can't figure out how to add extra real track along with midi tracks. I might have to upgrade to 2021 or greater and use utility track.
Thank you❗
@@handyman5475 If you do not have utility tracks in my opinion, you're missing out on the best capability upgrade to BIAB in years. ruclips.net/video/XiPqQjISmb4/видео.html
I Have a 2021 1 less than the total..My problem is that it does NOT play the drum when i find what i want as music press ok it goes to the main screen it plays all the instru,ment but NO DRUM..I hope you can help me what am i doing wrong.. Thanx..
I'm not sure what's wrong. I do know that sometimes people play the demos and when they try to use some of the Realtracks they are not included in the version that they purchased. I hear this a lot from people who bought BIAB Pro or MegaPak. Just at a guess that could be the problem. Have you tried other drumsets?
@@henryclarke5407 Thanx ...I Have the Ultra pack 2021 when i want the song Achy breaky heart on demo it plays all instrument what shoving on the left side.. when press ok to put it on the main screen it will not play the drum..
@@emzeperiksz8138 I'm not sure what you're saying "play on the left side" and press OK.
i willl do this
Forgive me for asking, but what is DAW?
Digital Audio Workstation (Cakewalk, Protools, Reaper, Garageband, etc..)
Nice video
Thank You.
Yes, you are right.keep it simple. and great video , BUT!! yo can arf talk!!lol!!! Open the Daw!!
Sort of begs the question. Why even bother with BiaB? That’s where my head is. & you don’t like RealBand DAW. I thought the Bennie of that was tight integration with BiaB
That's where he gets most of the instrument files. I do exactly the same thing but I use Reaper. It would be impossible to get the same results trying to use real band.
Please elaborate. My main DAW is Logic. What does BIAB do, provide the scaffolding then you just basically swap out instruments and do advanced things in the DAW?
@@ColleenKitchen Let's take a step back. Based on your question I'm not sure you're that familiar with the BIAB Suite. The suite is comprised of BIAB and Realband. Basically BIAB is the composition tool (Composing the song with styles, chords, realtracks, etc..). Realband is the DAW where you get to refine your composition. A lot of users use BIAB for composition but do not use Realband in refining their song. They use 3rd party commercial DAWs like your mention of Reaper. So you're not "swapping" out instruments. You're "exporting" the instruments and importing into the DAW of your choice. In this video I show how I take ALL the BIAB tracks (core and utility tracks), import them into Cakewalk by Bandlab, and "massage" the song. I also add the vocals and MIDI strings in the DAW because I like the way it records so much better than Realband . So when you say "why bother" with BIAB. that's confusing. You "bother" with BIAB because that's where you created your core music. This has NOTHING to do with Realband. Yes RB is integrated with BIAB but a lot of people use things other than BIAB to compose or "compliment" their BIAB compositions. For example a lot of my music is NOT created with BIAB. I also use other techniques to include loops and live recording. It's easier to use a DAW that fits the bill across the board. In my case I selected Cakewalk by BandLab but there are tons of others in the marketplace. Does that make sense?
important to know: BIAB has not yet updated their MAC side to work in OS Ventura. bummer...
Don't quote me but I think their MAC stuff is usually six months behind their windows version.