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Set Track to Ignore Chord Settings (Push, Rest, Shot, Hold) #787824 12/09/23 03:13 AM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
Joined: Jul 2021 Posts: 23 UK dr_t OP Enthusiast
OP dr_t Enthusiast Joined: Jul 2021 Posts: 23 UK	Please tell me if this feature is already available in BIAB 2023 Mac (I couldn't find it), but I'd like to be able to set certain tracks to just ignore all the pushes, shots, and holds that I've put into the song. I often end up making a song containing all the pushes and holds, rendering it, and then saving it as a new song and removing all the pushes and holds (which can be time-consuming) so that I can re-render the song for certain selected instruments without the pushes and holds. If this could be done as a sub-menu on the right-click Track Settings menu, that'd be perfect (a sub-menu with the option to switch off Pushes, Rests, Shots/Holds, with all 3 options being "on" by default). Mostly, I'd want to apply this setting to a soloist track so the soloist doesn't get freaked out by pushes, and keeps on playing whilst the backing group are doing all sorts of rhythmic stuff with pushes, rests, shots and holds. Besides that, there are plenty of occasions when a certain realtrack's approach to these chord settings simply doesn't fit in with what I'm trying to achieve (e.g. too brash or too clunky sounding) - I'd like to keep the instrument in the song, but would prefer it to just ignore certain chord settings. By the way... yes, I know that you can do the "Except for..." thing for rests/shots/holds on individual chords, but it's tedious to do that on every shot/held chord when you've got a lot of them, and you can only apply it to the b/p/d/g/s tracks - it's no use at all for utility tracks. And there's no way to have specific instruments bypass the pushes at all (as far as I know).

Re: Set Track to Ignore Chord Settings (Push, Rest, Shot, Hold) dr_t #787827 12/09/23 03:40 AM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 21,073 Melbourne, Australia AudioTrack Veteran
AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 21,073 Melbourne, Australia	Thanks for the suggestion. I don't know specifically if this can be done on the Mac version as a setting, but there is possibly a fairly easy workaround. 1: Record the song with the pushes etc as normal. 2: Freeze all the tracks except for the Soloist track. 3: Change the Song Settings to not allow Shots Holds and Pushes 4: Generate the tracks again. Only the Soloist track should be generated. You can also do this the reverse way if required. BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.

Re: Set Track to Ignore Chord Settings (Push, Rest, Shot, Hold) dr_t #788015 12/09/23 08:13 PM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
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musocity Veteran M Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 3,110	" If this could be done as a sub-menu on the right-click Track Settings menu, that'd be perfect (a sub-menu with the option to switch off Pushes, Rests, Shots/Holds, with all 3 options being "on" by default)." and with the same in F5, if there could be a colour change or something to give a visual that they are disabled.

Re: Set Track to Ignore Chord Settings (Push, Rest, Shot, Hold) musocity #788058 12/10/23 03:33 AM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 21,073 Melbourne, Australia AudioTrack Veteran
AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 21,073 Melbourne, Australia	Quote with the same in F5, if there could be a colour change or something to give a visual that they are disabled. Yes, that's one versatile way to allow acknowledgement. The display needs to 'stand out more' that a major change by the user has taken place. BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.

Re: Set Track to Ignore Chord Settings (Push, Rest, Shot, Hold) AudioTrack #788315 12/11/23 12:43 AM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
Joined: Jul 2021 Posts: 23 UK dr_t OP Enthusiast
OP dr_t Enthusiast Joined: Jul 2021 Posts: 23 UK	Thanks AudioTrack! I didn't realise that setting was there. That's a great work-around.

Re: Set Track to Ignore Chord Settings (Push, Rest, Shot, Hold) dr_t #788319 12/11/23 01:34 AM Band-in-a-Box Wishlist
Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 21,073 Melbourne, Australia AudioTrack Veteran
AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 21,073 Melbourne, Australia	Originally Posted by dr_t Thanks AudioTrack! I didn't realise that setting was there. That's a great work-around. Good one. Sometimes there are difficult ways to achieve things, and sometime there are quite straightforward ways to do the same thing, but they can be less obvious too. I'm glad this helped. BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.

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