Thanks for the feedback.

I bought the BIAB Ultrapak and like it real well so far.

On the one song that I have started, I am using BIAB as a foundation for the entire song.
I laid it down as good as I could and then started applying EZkeys where BIAB came up short.

BIAB put down a decent drum track, decent bass track, surprisingly good rhythm guitar track, good piano track in spots. The instrument solos were kind of soupy and/or fragmented
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So I went into EZKEYS and put down piano fills and piano background. What I found was that I can get a pretty good "passable" sound with EZKEYS out-of-the-box but have to go into the midi editor to tailor it to the song. It is tedious but fun and providing a nice result.

For other instruments such as strings, I am using midipaks from EZKEYS that are made for strings and dropping other instruments such as violins on them from the plug-ins in my DAW.

Am still deep in the learning curve but very happy with the softwares.

The softwares provide hours of in-the-moment entertainment.
Beyond the song, part of the entertainment is the mere fascination with what the software can do.


If someone asked me which software was a better songwriting tool...I would suggest EZ keys. It is faster and more to-the point for songwriting. ...imho.
Inspired by a thread here, I am going to try to write to a "hit" formula on my next song using EZKEYS. Start with a "hook." VCVCBC. Complete chorus first. Then Verses. Then bridge.
Should be fun.



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