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I am still using BB 2008.5 , has the bad voice leading for automatic accompaniments,been fixed in the new version? If not,I think this limitation should be addressed with the next release of BB.
Some other guy who,like me,knows his music theory,surely has noticed that BB connects most chords in an haphazard way,with really bad voice leading. The upper part is immediately noticeable because often it jumps about (for example ,if you enter a progression,on some chords the upper part (or the upper parts) in the chords,will jump up or down a third (minor or major) ,or even a fourth! That sounds VERY bad,BB should connect the voices by the shortest way: a voice either stays on the same note,or, if it has to move,it NEVER moves more than a half-step or a whole-step.
If that rule is broken in a inner part,it's less noticeable,but on the top part,it is very noticeable and sounds bad: it makes the chord sound disconnected from the others. At least the top part should ALWAYS go the shortest way,unless the composer is composing a melody,for which he might want to add a few leaps in that voice. These are basic rules of harmony that are many centuries old,but that are as good as ever!
With the bass in BB, the problem is easily fixable if you just use slash chords,as I do,because in that way you can design the bass line,so you can make it do what you want. But except for the bass,the chord connection in BB,especially in the top part,is not a problem that one can get around,unless he records a new top voice as if it were recording a melody.
Hopefully PG Music will program BB , (a great program that I use more than all others),to connect all the voices of the chords by having BB not moving the common tones ,or if the voices have to move because there's no other way,by never moving them more than one or an half step up or down.
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Many of BB's MIDI styles have smooth voice leading already. This is a setting in the StyleMaker (highlight a pattern, and press EDIT to see the setting).
The RealTracks all have smooth voice leading.
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
PG Music Inc.
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Hi Peter,thank you for the reply. I don't really use the StyleMaker as I don't create new styles at all, but I'll have a better look. Is the method you mention a quick and easy way to solve the problem? I hope it's not time-consuming,as I like to fire up BB and just go nuts with music experiments of all kinds
While I appreciate the brilliant quality of the Realtracks, I use a lot of MIDI styles too. Also,some of the Realtracks have some slight problem,for example,I have bought the Metal Guitars Realtracks,but I could not get BB to play a particular inversion the way I wanted. I'll let you know this with more precision on another post. In general ,for composition I prefer the MIDI styles as BB has fantastic assortment of them. I would use the Realtracks more for a demo.
I'll look into the smooth voice leading setting that you mentioned. Be what it may,I still consider BB the best. I am also going to buy the new BB version soon as I am very interested in the Realband software.
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I have checked out the method you mentioned: very long-winded. I had to basically kill all the accompaniment instruments but the piano, because I could not bother to edit all the patterns for all the instruments. The guitar had 29 patterns,and I can't even select a bunch of patterns togheter,to select 'smooth voice leading'. Then,for some reason,the progression played back with smooth voice leading,but then I tried again and it did not,even thought all the patterns were edited with 'smooth' ] Frankly, I gave up.... I have also selected some newer style,but the result was still inconsistent A single button called 'smooth voice leading' that does just that for all the instruments,except the bass,would do. Saves a bunch of years 
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