Hi Lee and Piglet Boy
I can endorse the piano method as 100% for me.
Just play the whole song without any changes with the lead piano.
Have your registrations done with any style changes
Just play through and get the chords and drum fills down with the style .
I finished doing my backing track last night after a couple of hours .
Yes, there were mistakes, not in the chord play, but hitting a chord maybe a fraction out and that means fraction.
If that happens as with a machine it leaves a lot of undesirable flack in each style track.
Now is the time to put the style track into Cubase and get the flack out of it. (sorry about the quickfire pun
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I go to MIDI in Cubase and choose delete notes and make the note bar small as you do not want to erase sixteenth notes.
Press delete and then quantize in Cubase to what you want.
After that it is a case of making sure notes in the track are ok and you have to lenghten some tails or make up some gaps.
Once all tracks are clean, put back into the Genos.
All you need to do now is play the rest of the song with diferent parts in different tracks, then bob's yer Uncle
( All done)
After that back to cubase for a tidy and then mix and master which is not easy.
I have learnt now not to change anything in the mix , but just enhance after gain staging.
I now use Neutron and Ozone 9
I do find with certain sounds on the Genos there is unwanted noises which you can eq out. Neutron is going well for me trying to mix and Ozone is great.
I do not like the Neutron or Ozone gain staging , I use the Klanghelm meter, only $20 low on cpu. Worth a buy.
Put accross all tracks with Izotopes Relay and you can keep your faders at 0 Unity until fine adjustments needed.
Gradually getting there. A big must is also to use a reference track. Can save the headaches and it gets you in the ball park.
The times i have screwed it all up ,you would not believe " Oh the Pain"!!
All the best
John