My experience with BIAB was a few years ago. I wanted to learn/experience/practice playing over jazz standards/changes, and got a fairly basic package and downloaded some Real Book type tracks of some standards.
It worked excellently for that. At that time it was mostly MIDI based, and the sounds you got depended on the MIDI sound banks you had available, but with good ones (didn't need to be great ones, I used either a consumer soundcard or a Casio keyboard). I could practice a set of changes at any tempo, load in some pre-entered Real Book changes, or fairly easily type in my own changes. I found it simple to modify the changes to either simplify them or to try chord substitutions. I recall there was even a menu choice to 'jazz it up' a simple set of changes automatically.
As a way to study playing over changes, I can't think of anything else like it, even today. If you looked at the screen you could see the changes, like a scrolling chord chart, and then as your ear developed, you could skip watching the screen. Tempo changes were simple of course, as were key changes, and so I found it superior to the 'Music Minus One' kind of backing tracks of the day.
Eventually I developed what were the height of my 'jazz chops,' which were not of a high level of skill, but which pleased me. They've since deteriorated due lack of practice and some infirmities, but none of that was BIAB's fault.
I never got deep into the capabilities of the program. I was using it to woodshed a hour or so after I had it installed. I did buy a newer version a year so ago and haven't installed it as I'm deep in a long-term, time-consuming music project. A guy I once knew recorded a bluesy singer-songwriter album largely using a newer version of BIAB as 'the band' and those more current RealTracks features. Sounded pretty convincing to me, but I have no idea how difficult that was to do.
If you want a non-software way to integrate the BIAB technology into practice and/or your own loops, the Trio pedal lets you play in a set of changes on guitar (you need to play those changes simply and clearly for accurate results) and it will sense the changes you played and create a bass line to those changes in several styles and play drums (also in various styles) to the tempo (with the tempo being adjustable with a knob). The Trio+ version also lets you record loops of your own playing (fancy as you'd like, like any other looper) to use with the bass and drums, and it also has the ability to set up more sections of a composition. Both the Trio and Trio+ are currently on sale, and both use BIAB technology to do their automatically generated backing.
It worked excellently for that. At that time it was mostly MIDI based, and the sounds you got depended on the MIDI sound banks you had available, but with good ones (didn't need to be great ones, I used either a consumer soundcard or a Casio keyboard). I could practice a set of changes at any tempo, load in some pre-entered Real Book changes, or fairly easily type in my own changes. I found it simple to modify the changes to either simplify them or to try chord substitutions. I recall there was even a menu choice to 'jazz it up' a simple set of changes automatically.
As a way to study playing over changes, I can't think of anything else like it, even today. If you looked at the screen you could see the changes, like a scrolling chord chart, and then as your ear developed, you could skip watching the screen. Tempo changes were simple of course, as were key changes, and so I found it superior to the 'Music Minus One' kind of backing tracks of the day.
Eventually I developed what were the height of my 'jazz chops,' which were not of a high level of skill, but which pleased me. They've since deteriorated due lack of practice and some infirmities, but none of that was BIAB's fault.
I never got deep into the capabilities of the program. I was using it to woodshed a hour or so after I had it installed. I did buy a newer version a year so ago and haven't installed it as I'm deep in a long-term, time-consuming music project. A guy I once knew recorded a bluesy singer-songwriter album largely using a newer version of BIAB as 'the band' and those more current RealTracks features. Sounded pretty convincing to me, but I have no idea how difficult that was to do.
If you want a non-software way to integrate the BIAB technology into practice and/or your own loops, the Trio pedal lets you play in a set of changes on guitar (you need to play those changes simply and clearly for accurate results) and it will sense the changes you played and create a bass line to those changes in several styles and play drums (also in various styles) to the tempo (with the tempo being adjustable with a knob). The Trio+ version also lets you record loops of your own playing (fancy as you'd like, like any other looper) to use with the bass and drums, and it also has the ability to set up more sections of a composition. Both the Trio and Trio+ are currently on sale, and both use BIAB technology to do their automatically generated backing.
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