Oh I beg to differ about the complexity. The whole thing is one specific instrument, strummed acoustic, they have picked acoustic too, being just like toontrack where they have to make you buy everything. The humanizing effects, fret noise (sometimes fret noise sounds stupid), chord changing spaces and noises, and with 160 different patterns, all of which can be found again, or tweaked , its doubtful youd run into a case where your forcing your song to fit IT, as opposed to IT fitting your song. The thing about strumming an acoustic, it only needs to be a sound enhancer, adding nice twelve string or strummed martins into the mix will never hurt it and give it a fuller sound than without it.

Throwing ez piano into the mix often fails because number one, you cant find a pattern that fits your groove, number two, you usually need piano to play melody, and accompany the melody of the song, at least when the piano player is good. You dont really have that option.

Strummed acoustic guitar will always fit any song cause its just a wall of sound, Im intrigued about the possibility of this.

You also between the picking one and the strumming pretty much can get an acoustic vocal demo, on que, very easily. I could knock off alot of songs quickly just as g/v and it will sound great.

I think its more focused on one instrument, just as ez drums which makes it better than BIAB. Im not against BIAB, It does sound good, I just think when its geard to one instrument its more comprehensive.

As I mentioned im not finding ez piano or really ez bass to be as forgiving.... mainly because there just isnt enough patterns and feels to cover you, you end up sacrificing how you envision it, for their take.

Again, I dont think thats a problem with strummed acoustic guitars. Even their electric guitars sound good, but youd run into problems with limitations like you do with any chorded instrument that also plays melody, and I find its more groove drivin. It will play a riff, and then you try to follow it with everything else....yeah, but when I wrote the song in the park with my acoustic, I wasnt hearing that..

It may come down to me using different things for different purposes. I think Biabs main advantage is that if you DONT KNOW how you want your song to feel or be played, it will play it for you anyway without having an idea. But based on demos Ive heard, I can tell there is still alot of compromising going on. I heard a demo the other day, it sounded EXACTLY like U2. First thing I said was, ok, hes using a u2 preset...lol. That's where it gets tacky and hacky, . thats not what you anybody should be using it for. Im like who is covering "Where The Streets Have No Name?"

Of course its a bit of a leap of faith, if I buy strummed acoustics 2, i probably should get 1 since thats the source program, then id probably need finger picking and flat picking ones, just to mix with strumming.

Then I believe you need the controller they provide just to make it easier to use.

but hey...press one note, the root of your chord, and it plays the whole chord, and you can voice the chord however you want.

But this could easily turn into a thousand dollar investment considering i probably need a pre amp, monitors, new mic

I think BIABS advantage is it all comes as one, even the recording software. im surprised they havent made a bundle that includes a pre amp, mic, monitors, headphones.

Alot of work no matter what, but unless I do something, these songs spinning in my head will never get out of my head!

Last edited by Fdemetrio; 03/04/21 10:07 AM.