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Hope this makes sense!!

I found what I consider to be the ideal BIAB style for a Christmas song that I want to do entitled "Jingle Bells (A Cowboy's Holiday)" by the Bellamy Brothers. I am using the style "HOWARD-fast. Sw 16ths Pop" and I like it! Well, except for a couple things. It seems that this style only wants to do its set pattern for 4 beats ONLY. In other words, the style doesn't want to change if I change a chord after 2 beats.

How do I override that? confused

In other words, in measure 12 I want the bass to do this:
"[C, C/Bb] [C/A, C/G"]. But the pattern just wants to do the C ONLY of that. And, also, I want to do this in the following measures:

57=Gm (2 beats) and C (2 beats)
58=Am (2 beats) and D (2 beats)
59=Gm (2 beats) and C (2 beats
60=F (2 beats) and Db (2 beats)


Again, the bass pattern only wants to do it's set 4 beat pattern for the whole measure which is based on the chord at the beginning of the measure and simply disregards any chord after that.

How to fix/override? confused




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Hi rokq,

What you describe should work. I'll try it out and get back to you.

Do you have the bass track frozen by any chance? If you do, you need to unfreeze it before you regenerate the song.

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Be sure to regenerate the entire song after you make changes.

I have done what you describe.... the first being a bass line walking down through a transition..... that should work.

I've also done what you describe in the second part..... and have even used different bass notes in that circumstance as well....

Be sure the track is not frozen and be sure to regenerate after each change.

My BB set up is defaulted so that it DOES regenerate if I make one small change to the tune. Unless I select the button which plays the last generated copy.


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Thanks for the replies. But, on this one, I guess things just worked themselves out on their own!

This morning I checked to see if the tracks were frozen and they were not and then I tried to play the song, but it froze up. I had to exit and then re-open BIAB but, again, the song froze up. It actually froze up (after the first intro click) 4 different occasions. I checked and BIAB was working on other songs but not this one. So I did what I had to do. I rewrote the whole song with the same style. All I did that the bass worked fine but the bass sounded strange throughout the whole song after I stuck in the multiple chords in a bar in different locations in the song and it wasn't acceptable. However, I lucked out by finding a replacement bass style after a couple tries and, now, the bass is PERFECT! cool So I'm not gonna analyze this anymore and am just going to leave well enough alone.

Thanks again!!

cheers,

Bob


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If you are certain that you can reproduce this using the same RealTrack(s), you should sent it to PG Music Support.


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Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
If you are certain that you can reproduce this using the same RealTrack(s), you should sent it to PG Music Support.

Is it possible I should have simply rebooted my computer and THEN programmed the song with the style I was having trouble with? confused I ask because I tried the style this morning after starting my computer up (I usually shut it off at night) and it worked perfectly. In fact, I decided to use it instead of the one I used in it's place.

I think I'll just blame it on computer error. grin

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Originally Posted By: rokq22

Is it possible I should have simply rebooted my computer and THEN programmed the song with the style I was having trouble with? confused


Yes indeed, I'm always telling folks to try the cold reboot first, not sure how many listen.

But it has been my experience that sometimes a heavy edit session, where you might make a certain number too many changes to a BB songfile can lead to troubles such as you mentioned and a few more, whenever that happens here, the first thing I try is a cold reboot, works a good percentage of the time.

Can't prove it, but my theory is that the computer can run out of resources. Reboot puts all the bit ducklings back in a neat row behind the mama bit duck where they're supposed to be.


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