I was just using the Audio Chord Wizard and had some questions my mind, so I clicked on "Help", which offered me only the video tutorial of ACW. I clicked on it, and it took me to the PGMusic website on the video tutorials page. Which is fine, except that it took me to the "Other Products" tab, which does not have the ACW tutorial. You instead have to go to the "Band-in-a-Box" tab, and then scroll down to the 10th row of available videos to find it. See my picture posts below. I suspect this could be an easy fix in the next maintenance patch.
Additionally, it would seem to me that since the main BIAB help file has a nice section on using the ACW, that section should be made available from within ACW Help, since once you launch ACW, you can't click on anything in the main BIAB screen until you complete using ACW. If you wish to see the information in the help file, you have to cancel ACW and then launch Help from BIAB.
John
Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 2x2TB, 1x4TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 2x1.5TB, 2x2TB, 1x4TB SATA
John, If you're in a little bit of trouble, well, we're all in a lot of trouble .
I see that there are two issues
One lies in that the PGM Website HTML linkages are possibly incorrect,
Two, it seems that the ACW is a Modal Window rather than a Non-Modal Window, meaning that this Window takes focus of the program while opened, and thus meaning that things like Help cannot be launched.
I guess this is really worth reporting to PGM. The workaround may not be too difficult.
Thanks for reporting / raising
Trevor
BIAB & RB2024 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones
Well, not so much help, since I figured it out; more to show what needs fixed (and it would seem to me to be an easy fix).
But, I was actually looking to see if there was a way to slow down the audio within ACW to nail down the bar lines. The song is 4/4 (but really in cut time, but you need the four beats to get all the chords), and at about 200 BPM, it moves along pretty fast. And the end of the chorus has a single two beat bar among, so trying to nail that was difficult as it went flying by.
The answer is, it doesn't support slowing down the audio. Next time, I'll reduce the speed in BIAB first, then launch ACW. But that would be a nice feature.
A couple of other things I noticed along the way that would be nice. In the main BIAB chord grid, you can hit the delete key to remove a chord entry. In the ACW chord grid, delete doesn't do anything; you have to right click and remove it.
You also can't scroll the chord grid with the mouse scroll wheel (which doesn't seem to work at all); additionally, if you scroll down using the thumbnails on the right, it doesn't go one line at a time, it goes one bar at time. The ACW chord grid interface also seems to be page based, so if you go one line below the bottom, it doesn't just scroll up, it puts the new line at the top (as in a new page) and then you can't see what came before. Is this necessary? Well, I found that when I worked out some of the chord changes in the first verse, they should carry over to the second verse, but I couldn't see the first verse on the screen because when I scrolled down to see the first line of the second verse, it popped it to the top of the screen.
I'll post this as a wish list, as well and reference this post.
John
Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 2x2TB, 1x4TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 2x1.5TB, 2x2TB, 1x4TB SATA
You have so much patience John. I keep discovering things like this and I get bogged down in figuring out all the details so I can even report it and wind up forgetting about it and moving on.
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