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#473170 05/16/18 05:21 PM
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Hi: I am writing Cowgirl In The Sand In BIAB as a backing track. At the end of the verse the last two bars are written in as:

Bar 45 - C... D... Bar 46 C... D...

I have the drums, bass and guitar highlghted to play thru the entire song including these bars.
All instruments play every bar and through Bar 45, but only the Drums will play in Bar 46.

I have read thru the manual and it seems to me that I am doing everything right. I hit the green button to regenerate the song after typing in the chords and no freeze buttons are on the bass or any other instrument.

If anyone has any suggestions, i would appreciate them..

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Firstly... Instead of using holds with the chords, just type in the normal chords

  • Bar 45: C D
  • Bar 46: C D

Now generate the song.

Does the problem still persist?

Secondly... Could you please post a screen shot of your BIAB Chordsheet that shows bars 45 & 46.

To do this, go to the link below and follow the instructions.

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=472139#Post472139

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How you enter the chords...with commas or not.... or an ENTER between them determines how they play.

In Bar 46 do you have CD or do you have C comma D or C / D with C being in the first half and D being in the second half of the measure? There are 3 different possible soundings of those chords in the question.


If you enter C,D it's different from entering CD. The second (CD) is actually telling it to ONLY PLAY THE DRUMS. I believe the display will show the large C with superscript D.

Remember to enter the C in the first half of the measure or use a COMMA between the C,D to place the chords C and D on the 1 and 2 of the measure..... or enter C then hit ENTER and type D to get the C to play on ONE and the D to play on three.


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Hi StrumBum,

If you have trouble getting a screenshot posted, feel free to send the song file to support@pgmusic.com, we'll be happy to check it out.

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Thank You Noel, Guitarhacker and Kent:
I apologize for the slow response. I had to download Mozilla since I use Chrome. I made a jpeg file but I cannot find the radio button to upload the file in. Neither Chrome nor Mozilla appear to have it as either an icon or button. So I'm sort of stuck for the moment. Once i get the technical difficulties addressed, I'll up load the file.

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Hi Kent:

I can't find an easy was to upload the jpeg so I sent it to support@pgmusic.com and addressed it to your attention.

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Originally Posted By: StrumBum
Neither Chrome nor Mozilla appear to have it as either an icon or button.


The 'upload graphic' process doesn't use a button nor an icon. It's actually a link and it's necessary to switch to "Full reply screen" mode to access it. I wonder if this might have been the problem.

Have a look at the link below and follow the two graphics to see if that helps.

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=386690#Post386690

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Ok. Finally got it loaded. thanks. It took me a while to get there but i finally was able to see where to access File manager.

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Great. was able to access it. Thanks. I was blind to the File Manager but now I see...
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Hi StrumBum,

If you email me the song file itself, I should be able to figure this out pretty quickly. You've got Bar Settings changes on every bar, and bar 46 is hidden with a repeat, so there are lots of things that could be causing your issue.

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Thanks Kent. Will send it via email in just a second.

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Thanks, I got the file, but I don't have any instruments cutting out on bar 46. There doesn't seem to be anything unusual about that measure at all.

Does this happen on all choruses, or on just one particular chorus?

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Thanks Kent. What happens is that I lose all instruments except the drums on bar 46. Everything else is doing exactly what i asked it to do. So, if it is working on your system, perhaps I'm doing something or have some system feature which is causing this to occur. No idea what that could be. When i run BIAB, the only things i have going on are my Sapphire Interface. I do not use internet when programming a song or VST effects. So am at a bit of a loss.

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I'll send you a copy of the mp3 just as an FYI to support. Thanks Kent.

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Try opening the MGU/SGU file in Realband and see if the song generates and plays properly in that program.

Note... if you haven't used Realband before, it will take a little longer for the song to generate because RB does a complete song generation before playback starts. BIAB, on the other hand, begins playing without waiting for generation to complete and it continues generating in the background while the song is playing.

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Thanks Noel. I'll try it out. If it doesn't work, I'll just rebuild the song. it won't take long. Thank you guys for your help.

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I notice you're asking about re-installing Realband.

You probably don't need to re-install it, just run it as an administrator.

Try this and see if it help...

1. close Realband

2. right-click on the start-up shortcut

3. select "Run as administrator"

4. start Realband

Does that help?

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It did. thank You Noel.

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Excellent!

Both RB and BIAB benefit from being run in administrator mode.

If you want to set the "Run as administrator" permanently...

1. Right-click on the RB shortcut.

2. Select "Properties".

3. Under the 'Compatibility' tab, set the option "Run as administrator".

4. OK your way out of the settings window.

Now you'll be able to click on the shortcut to start RB and it will automatically start in admin. mode.

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