In a thread from September this year about backing tracks, the website strummachine.com was mentioned. I liked the fact that I could easily add my own tracks and there were quite a few ready-made, which also could be modified if necessary, so I bought a year subscription to that. I have found it a great resource that I use daily to practice many tunes and to increase speed with.
But I really want to be able to create backing tracks that I can record myself with. Strummachine is not very good for that. The tracks there can only be played (streamed), they can't be downloaded or converted to different formats. In order to record myself to these tracks, I have to play them through the speakers and record the speaker output along with my mandolin playing. The result is awful.
In that same thread, JL277z mentioned and gave examples of a program called ChordPulse, and Pete Martin mentioned Band-in-a-Box . . .
I have some minimal recording equipment that I'm not using right now, and the Ableton Live Lite recording software. I need something for making backing tracks to record with. I don't want to learn multiple softwares for creating backing tracks (I use a lot of softwares already for many purposes).
I'd like some discussion to decide what software to purchase and focus on learning. This would be software that can easily create backing tracks with plenty of options (like using an initial pick-up measure and such). Backing tracks have to sound good (not dinky, like the midi stuff from Tabledit).
Can I get some opinions on BIB vs. ChordPulse, and perhaps others that you've used?
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