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I'm having problems with the 'guitar' playing different chords than what's written... I have the embellishment turned off.. it'll show a Gm7, and the piano plays that, but when I mute the piano, the guitar is playing some wrong chord - so I have to go to chord builder and re-do it... this happens a LOT - I normally use the cool jazz style, if that means anything... I also noticed the guitar does not play the +5 note of a 7+5 chord - it plays a straight 7... the piano plays the chord properly.... what's the deal here? I'm using BIAB '08.

Also - is there anyway of altering the rhythm of the piano parts? I use Vibes a lot instead of piano (again, mostly the Cool Jazz style) and it plays sometimes on the beat, but a lot OFF the beat or not at all, and it sounds like 'the band' is making mistakes.... Can I get it to play on the beat ALL the time like the guitar rhythm?

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Hi dmrodes

There are several ways to get around your concern

1. Find a piano backing from another style you like and add it to the Cooljazz style in the "Hybrid" feature

2. Many times I find the guitar part and piano part clash - so I choose the guitar in the piano channel and mute the original guitar channel

Hope this gives you other options
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Hi dmrodes

2. Many times I find the guitar part and piano part clash - so I choose the guitar in the piano channel and mute the original guitar channel

Hope this gives you other options
jazzman




That's something I do to.


Works great.


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If I put vibes in the guitar channel, then I 'lose' the guitar part...???

Still want to know why the guitar sometimes plays totally WRONG chords..
and why it won't play the +5 note in a 7+5 chord...

One more thing - I'd like the drums to be 'louder'... I already have them set at the max (127).
Do I have to lower the volume on all the rest of the instruments?
Raising the 'pan' helps, but then it's only coming out one side....

THANKS!

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Hi dmrodes

If you put the vibes onto the guitar channel it will play vibes with the same pattern as the original guitar -and when you revert back to guitar it will play the original guitar patterns

Regarding the "wrong" chords - try another style as there have been rare problems with some mainly early release styles - but if you use Hybrid feature you can combine a correct pattern from another style and keep the Cool Jazz (jazcool. was style disc 5) patterns for the rest

With some "wrong" chords it seems to be that a simpler or basic chord or replace/trick it with an alternative chord sometime works better. It may also be a corrupt file which a "return to factory settings" should help

Are you using RealDrums because you can adjust the global volume of them in the +/- db RealDrums set up page - or - if you are using midi drums then open Opt > Prefences and tick the box near the bottom - Reduce other part volume when clicking past 127" - this reduces the volume equally on all other channels

Make sure that all you other master volumes are turned up on the computer soundcard - VSC DXi etc

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