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I only recently tried the Transpose Songs feature under BIAB 2014's Practice Window. As I understand, this feature can randomly change the key of the song chorus by chours, which is great when practicing new licks over different keys. Or it would be great, if it worked. I had a set of licks that I have as one 48 bar chorus. I chose "transpose the song" and for "each chorus that a song is playing, transpose by" I checked "Random # semitones". This worked as expected for the first chorus, but when the song automatically repeated, the feature changed the key several times in quick order without playing anything, and finally settled on G (for some reason), but started the song somewhere in the middle of the chorus. I gave up as this just wasn't working.
Has anyone else used this feature? I have the automatic loop/replay checked so any song I play repeats. Maybe this is the problem?
Thank you for your assistance,
Bob
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Bob:
I went back to my 2014 BIAB and tried this.
It seems to work fine although I'm not sure exactly how you want it to sound.
What I did was, open a "new" blank chord sheet, and put one chord in each of the first 4 bars (C, F, G7, C), then set the # of choruses to 1, the "end" bar to 4 and unchecked the "Generate 2 bar ending".
You may also want to take out the "count in" unless you need it to get ready to play in the next random key.
Then I set the Transpose Song to Random (the same as you did).
Now when I hit Play, it changes to a new key for every "chorus", i.e. everytime it plays 4 bars.
You might try that first and see if you can get it to work, then go back to your original original song and see what's different.
Good Luck!
LLOYD S
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Thanks for the reply Lloyd. I have count-in enabled; maybe that's causing my problems. You know, this isn't a big deal, as I can always manually change to the key. But, when confronted with a problem, it gnaws at me in search of a solution.
PS: All I want it to do is randomly change the key. That challenges my abilities a bit more than my choosing the next key. (I somehow avoid those with 4 or more flats. lol)
Bob
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This is a known bug. The "each chorus that a song is playing, transpose by # semitones" feature doesn't work correctly with realtracks
Latest BIAB version, latest build.
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Bob:
If your song contains RealTracks as Cerio mentioned, you may want to just substitute an all-MIDI style, since you're only using it for practice anyway.
LLOYD S
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Cerio and Lloyd S: Thanks. I was not aware of that bug. I'll convert all realtracks to midi. Cheers, Bob
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I sent an email to PgMusic a couple of years ago reporting the problem, and they said they will look into it .
Maybe you could consider sending an email to them again.
That woukd be a very useful feature if working correctly.
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I sent an email to PgMusic a couple of years ago reporting the problem, and they said they will look into it .
Maybe you could consider sending an email to them again.
That woukd be a very useful feature if working correctly.
Will do.
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