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How do I Search and Replace chords in RB?
Thanks in advance.

I am truly frustrated with the Help System.


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I think you have to open the Chord window and look and manually replace.
Unless you want to change all of them.


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Thanks rharv:

Manually change each one? Gosh way back in the Word Processing apps that 'search and replace' feature was available (1980's).

I know BIAB has it but totally surprised that RB doesn't.

If no one has the answer, guess it'll go to the Wish dept.

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HI DEddy,

Right, you won't find that one in RealBand currently.

Band-in-a-Box is intended to be the starting point, where you'd enter chords, pick a style, etc, so a lot of the features related to song structure and chord entry will only be found in that program.

RealBand is more geared towards recording, so you'll find the more advanced recording features (like Input Monitoring, more than one audio track, etc) there.

There's some cross-over between the two of course, but there are quite a few features you'll only find in one or the other.

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You can in RealBand - Save As Biab Song SGU

BB open SGU - Edit - Chords - Search/Replace Chords

Save SGU

RealBand Open your existing Song.SEQ

File - Import Song SGU

this will replace just existing chords and add some new tracks above the ones you have, you can in Prefs - Song Generation - Auto Generate Song... uncheck (so when you DO want them just: Generate - Generate All BB Tracks).
You will still need to go through and regenerate any chords on your existing tracks: Highlight chords in chord window - Generate - Generate All (Selected Region) (Selected Tracks),
if your chords are at half bar set track window to Snap then highlight bars/beats - select all tracks then do the above.
This way will save any parts you want to keep and just put new chords in.


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Kent, Pipeline, thanks for the info.


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Originally Posted By: Pipeline

You will still need to go through and regenerate any chords on your existing tracks: Highlight chords in chord window - Generate - Generate All (Selected Region) (Selected Tracks),
if your chords are at half bar set track window to Snap then highlight bars/beats - select all tracks then do the above.
This way will save any parts you want to keep and just put new chords in.


Completely lost at this point. I've spent "hours" trying to figure it out with "zero" results.

BUT WAIT.

This is SO much trouble when all I wanted to do was a "search and replace" chords. NOT found in RB. (Dumb, stupid etc. and completely frustrating).

THIS is going into a RB Wish list.

Thanks Pipeline (anyways).

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So have you generated all the tracks up in RB then want to change the some chords ?
Or what to change the chords and regenerate all the tracks again ?
The above method will just change the chords easier than going through and changing each one.
In RB I just saved it as SGU
opened SGU in BB, find replace, saved
RB File - Import - SGU
This is what I got and it took 5 mins:

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That's the steps I took and same message but...
the RB Chord Sheet did NOT change at all.

In BIAB I had G/D and changed them to G (using BIAB Search and Replace).

The steps you just outlined I followed and got the same message that you show.

But.. RB Chord Sheet continued to show G/D and not G. Even when I used the Reinterpret Chords. No difference.

PS: thanks Pipeline.

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Try in RB first Edit - Chords - Delete

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Will try. Back shortly.

The delete chords did the trick.

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Pipeline. Thank you for your patience. It is appreciated.

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Nice tip Pipeline. In fact you may want to put this in the Tips and Tricks forum.

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