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Hi All.
I can't see this in the manual but is there a lmit on the number of bars that the song form (you know the ABBAC etc feature) will generate (I know about the 255 limit but this is a different limit).
I have a song that seems to not want to generate beyond 68 bars even if I set the last bar to something like 90.
I suspect that the number of characters in the song form box is a maximum of 32 but just wondered if anyone else had come across this.
I'm using Biab 2013 v366
Cheers Mike.
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I suspect that the number of characters in the song form box is a maximum of 32 but just wondered if anyone else had come across this.
I'm using Biab 2013 v366
Cheers Mike. That 32 is just the default number of bars for the chorus repeat NOT the total number of bars allowed for your song. There's 3 numbers in a row there, the first one is what bar the chorus repeat starts with, it defaults to 1, the second one is the default 32 for the length of your chorus and the third one is the number of chorus repeats you want, the default is 3. You have full control over all three of those numbers. You can have an intro section that could be 85 bars if you wanted and then the chorus repeat would start at bar 86 and it too could be as long as you want. Same at the end. If your chorus repeat goes 50 bars and it repeats 5 times you could then have a 100 bar tag ending. Of course these are exaggerations. Most intros might be 8 or 12 bars but depending on the song it can be much more than that and the same with the endings. Biab's official "ending" is only 4 bars but you can create a tag ending of almost any length. Then in addition to all that there's the brand new for 2013 song sections function. It's the black and white icon AABA. That's very cool and useful, read the help file in that window. Bob
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Hi Bob. Thanks for the reply.
I probably didn't explain it very well but I was referring to the song section function that you mention.
I think there may be a limit on the number of section indications you can have E.G., lets say you have four parts ABCD. In the song section box, you can indicate whatever permutation, AABCCCDAAD etc. In my song however, I had many small parts and it looked as though once 32 characters had been entered, the remainder was truncated E.G., AAAADDDDDCCCBBBBAAAADCDDBBBCCDAA [then any additional characters after that were disregarded].
I managed to work around it by not being so lazy and constructing the song parts into larger pieces which gave less flexibility but I didn't need it anyway, I was just taking a shortcut.
Just wondered if anyone else had seen this.
Cheers.
Mike.
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Aha, I see said the blind man. I've used that function many times but I guess I somehow already "knew" to use fairly large song sections I didn't know there is some kind of limitation like that.
It would help to phrase your questions a bit better.
Bob
Biab/RB latest build, Win 11 Pro, Ryzen 5 5600 G, 512 Gig SSD, 16 Gigs Ram, Steinberg UR22 MkII, Roland Sonic Cell, Kurzweil PC3, Hammond SK1, Korg PA3XPro, Garritan JABB, Hypercanvas, Sampletank 3, more.
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