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Cant loop one bar 2010.5 #164776 07/06/12 12:16 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 25 E Eddie Hughes OP Enthusiast
OP Eddie Hughes Enthusiast E Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 25	I'm trying to learn a tricky Jazz piece and have been using Band since it birth! I have just realized I cannot loop one bar? Any tips??? Regards Eddie

Re: Cant loop one bar 2010.5 Eddie Hughes #164777 07/06/12 01:17 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 20,576 Australia Noel96 Veteran
Noel96 Veteran Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 20,576 Australia	Hi Eddie, What exactly did you want BIAB to do for you? You haven't provided too much detail. For example, if you play saxophone (I'm just guessing here), do you want BIAB to provide the backing for a single bar and to play that bar over and over so that you can practise the melody? If that's the case, you could simply create another song and just type in the chords for that single bar 3 or 4 times (creating 3 or 4 bars of the chords). It would then be possible loop those bars. If you can give a little more information. I'm sure someone on here can come up with a solution for you. Regards, Noel MY SONGS... Audiophile BIAB 2026 audios on Soundcloud

Re: Cant loop one bar 2010.5 Eddie Hughes #164778 07/06/12 06:25 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 479 kelso Journeyman
kelso Journeyman Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 479	I think from your question that you can loop two or ten bars, but not just one. Here's how- Pointer over bar to loop. Press and hold left mouse button. Drag to highlight it and the next bar, holding lmb all the while. Drag back to the bar to loop, and only that bar will highlight. Release the lmb. Hit F10, you're looping one bar. Did that work for you? Good luck. Last edited by kelso; 07/06/12 06:34 AM. kelso Dell Desktop XPS 8100 W10 HomePrem/64 / Core i5 760 (quad, 2.8GHz) / 8GB DDR3 / 1 TB SATA / ViewSonic VG2428wm / EMU1616 PCI / Event ASP6 Active Monitors / BIAB 2019 64 bit (609) / Cakewalk

Re: Cant loop one bar 2010.5 Eddie Hughes #164779 07/06/12 10:07 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 126 R rich in ca Apprentice
rich in ca Apprentice R Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 126	Here's another option: Assuming the bar you want is not the first or last bar in the song (if it is, insert one bar before or after the bar you want), try this: Using the bar settings (press F5), mute each each adjacent bar (e.g., you want to hear bar 14) by , so mute bars 13, and then 15 by selecting Instrument changes/All Inst/Mute at bar 13, 15. Then, assuming you want to hear Guitar, on bar 14, select Instrument changes/All Inst/---, then select Instrument changes/Guitar/Back to Normal. Highlight the three bars and CLICK Loop. Alternately, you could pad with more muted bars for additional lead-in/lead-out time. Quick update: For less padding, omit the leading bar (bar 13) and using the loop settings dialog, set the first bar to 14 and number of bars to 2. Richard Last edited by rich in ca; 07/06/12 10:20 AM.

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