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Another day in paradise.....

Trying to make Biab do what it promises.
I generate a solo in a fast song and wanted to follow the soloist playing.
Thereby saw this option in notation window options to highlight the notes played in red for usefull.
Yet Biab does not what it says :-(
Is there anything the user can mismanage with this simple checkbox functionality?
It did not work for me also after RTFSsing.

Is that working for anyone??

thanks for your advice.

One more: Is there a way to make the bar marker a little more recognizable. The bar markings while playing a song back are so indistinctable moving from bar to bar with a light red or blue frame around the current bar, that I can hardly see where the song is at the moment.
Anything that can be set somewhere that makes is better?

Thanks for your help!

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Hello Stefan, also not working for me. This used to work at older versions.

Also looking for a way to make the bar marker more recognizable.

And when entering lyrics at the Notation window, I would like to go backwards to fix some mistyping, but there is no way at the current version. 8(

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Maybe we should as for refunds for missing/useless functions from PGM.

I have to say, that´s annoying missing out on functions that worked before and feeling like a beta tester :-(

I am really, really unhappy about the constant issues I am running into with Biab....

Waiting for a miracle....

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Hi all,

at least the Notation Window Options - "Highlight playback notes in red" is working when you switch off the Fake Sheet Mode on top of the notes sheet.
The notes are highlighted perfectly.

I will open a feature request to make the bar marker more recognizable.

Cheers
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Stefan,

I'm glad you found a setting to highlight playback notes in red.

It is unfortunate that when a program has so many settings to personalize how it works that each settings can have unforeseen consequences when used. That's one reason why I dislike big software updates to essential software I regularly use like Windows 10, LibreOffice and Cakewalk by BandLab. After the update it always seems like it takes about six months for me to adjust the settings to personalize a program to fit my needs.

At least with Band-in-a-Box each time you change settings you can store your new settings as a Preference file by going to the sub menu bar > Options > Save Preferences As ... and saving a new file or overwriting an existing file.

I've created my Preference file and it has saved me a LOT of grief. I've made it a habit to use the Return To Factory Settings option then load my Preference file every time I update Band-in-a-Box or the program starts acting funny. It takes less than a minute to perform these actions and I firmly believe I've saved myself hours of frustration.


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Originally Posted By: Jim Fogle
Stefan,

It is unfortunate that when a program has so many settings to personalize how it works that each settings can have unforeseen consequences when used.


Jim, you and I think alike grin

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Yep. smile Quite the utility knife. smile It will do anything but frown it does create a hole in any pocket it's stored in. frown Be careful what you ask for; you just may get it. grin


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Very nice comments and wisdom due to lot of sufferings.... ;-)

I can also remember some 20 years back I had a version of Band in a Box and I thought it promises big and seems not overseeable in its function mess even then. Especially with this weird user interface, that did not change to much.

Keep on playing.....
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That issue with highliting notes happens if the melody channel is set to 0 instead of equal to 4.
We will add a check to the next patch to auto-fix it as the melody channel should never be =0.
In the meantime, you can easily fix it by [main menu]-Edit-Prefs-Channels Melody Channel =4


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Hi Peter,

The Notation Window Options - "Highlight playback notes in red" is working

when you switch off the Fake Sheet Mode on top of the notes sheet.

Then the notes are highlighted perfectly.

but please do everything to make the app more robust.


PS:

I will address one interesting idea to you in the forum about promoting the pasting of complete Chord Charts as a source of sharing songs (without melodies) among us users.
The existing feature of copying all the chords you have entered for a song (let´s say the tango Ole Quappa) and simply share it in a forum ment for sharing chord charts easily between the Biab user, seems to me a very valuable, probably well sought after feature for many, many of us. We could save lots of work by asking our musician colleagues if they already went through the work.

How does that sound? We could then share the chords like this......

Chords for Tango "Ole Quappa"

[Chords]
|a) Am| E7| E7| Am| Dm| Am| B7| E7|
| Am| E7| E7| Am| Dm| Am| E7| Am E7 Am /|
| F7| F7| E..dp| E..bd|
|b) E7| E7| Am| Am| E7| E7| Am| Am|
| Dm| Am| E7| Am E7 Am..d /|
|b) E7| E7| Am| Am| E7| E7| Am| Am|
| Dm| Am| E7| Am E7 Am..d /|
|a) F7| F7| E7| E7|
|a) A| A| A| A| A| E7| A| A|
| D| D Dm| A| A| E7| E7| A Dm| A E7 A Am|
|b) Am| E7| E7| Am| Dm| Am| B7| E7|
| Am| E7| E7| Am| Dm| Am| E7| Am E7 Am Am..b|
|a) F7| F7| E7| E7|
|a) A| A| A| A| A| E7| A| A|
| D| D Dm| A| A / D A|
|a) E7| E7| A Dm| A..|
|a) A|
[ChordsEnd]




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I will remember this tip with saving my own preferences Jim.
Thanks.


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I will address one interesting idea to you in the forum about promoting the pasting of complete Chord Charts as a source of sharing songs (without melodies) among us users.

You could put this idea in the wish list.


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And yes Peter Channal of Melody on "4" helps a lot.
In the big lead sheet window (fullscreen) the fake sheet mode needs to be switched off.

Resolved....


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