LinuxMusicians

What, you say I'm not "new"? That's a relative term. This is my first post today, so I'm "new" as far as today is concerned.

I've been using Linux for about a decade, and it has been using me for a good part of that period. I develop the very entertaining (and I'm told very ugly) software named BackupBand. What? Not "new"? Well this is my first (and unfortunately probably not last) post about it today. It's relative.

BackupBand simulates a trio of musicians who play drums, bass, and guitars. They follow your chord changes as you play in realtime, in a variety of about 70 different styles. It's like having your own 3 piece live backup band to jam and practice with. Except they don't demand union scale, nor raid your refridgerator. As such, it's a useful program for a live soloist, or anyone wishing to practice and improve their performance skills (rhythmic playing and soloing).

The program is dead simple to setup/run. You just unzip a couple files to a single folder, and it's ready to go. Everything is included without need of installing/configuring extra software, from the musical styles, to the high-quality sounds of the backup musicians. It will even make you coffee in the morning. (Coffee beans, filter, hot water, and antidote not included).

Don't take my word for it. Here's a review from a user of this forum. The name is changed to protect the innocent (namely, my heirs, should he choose to sue for libel);

BackupBand is so much fun. It gave me hours of pleasure. The only reason I'm not still using it is because I found a faster way to pleasure myself.

Review by Travesty

And as a special promotion, the first 50 million people who download it by Dec 1, 3032 will recieve it absolutely free. That's right. So get off of your fat, lazy butts and download it now. Link in my tagline below.

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I confirm that testify brothers and sisters!
BackUpBand is a nice piece of art and it gave me days and nights of exhilarating joy while relieving my ankles from tinnitus, the only reason I'm not still using it nowadays is that from the day Travestys' wife came to rule my place for salvation I don't have any leisure nor lounge.

Hi, I'm the author of this post.
I can confirm that BackupBand is probably very good and stable software, the only reason I'm not using it anymore is because it doesn't have darkmode, or a low contrast mostly grey light mode, it doesn't have a Github readme with emojis and there's no tar.gz version. Also, is it really free if it doesn't use JACK? In order for audio software to be fully FOSS, they should use JACK, which allows you to change connections and swap in other programs as you like. Using ALSA and doing everything in the box means it's proprietary.

On a less serious note, I'd actually be interested in seeing a video of how you use BackupBand in a live gig (you mentioned before that you gig often). (Also if your face happens to be in the video, it would give several users on this forum a good new background for their dart boards.)