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I know this one has been thrown a lot on rthe forum, but please make 6/8 an actual time signature that can be recognized in BIAB. I don't understand why we have 6/8 Real Tracks if there's BIAB does not validate 6/8 as a legitimate time signature. Also, please add cut time not "fast four" there is a difference.
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I agree; and also have true 6/8 styles that support it. Many (usually slower) 6/8 songs also change chords within the eighth not division, so you can't properly enter the chords for 6/8 unless you use two 3/4 bars to represent it, and that doesn't always sound right.
It would also allow for better processing of songs from MIDI or MusicXML where the original time signature was 6/8.
I realize this would break the ability of previous versions to process songs from a version that supported this, but it may be time to make that break and move forward with new features like this.
What's really needed is the ability to support 16th note divisions not just with notes, but with chords. I get that you won't be able to do a 17/16 song, but 16 chord divisions would allow support for anything up to 16.
But I would settle for 8th note chord divisions, which would in theory get us 2/2, 2/4, 2/8, 3/4, 3/8, 4/4, 5/8, 6/8, and 7/8. Having 16, however, would allow for 9/8 and 12/8, as well as the ones in between (but are rare).
It's all really just math, and I bet they could even figure out a way to even convert/modify existing MIDI styles to natively support those new time signatures.
One day, maybe...
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+1 The #1 priority for me would the ability to enter 8 chords to a bar of 4/4 or 6 chords to a bar of 3/4. I could live with using 2 bars of 3/4 to simulate 6/8 then.
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+1 for these time signatures and while you are at it add all time signatures like 5/4, 7/4 etc.
I know this has been requested many times and many times I have added my +1
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Yes, another vote in favor.
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You guys sure are persistent! 
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+1
A must have for a pro software as BIAB.
In the other hand, it has been requested probably for about 20 years.
If it was so easy, we already got it ...!
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Regarding 6/8 time signatures: I've been buying BIAB since the days of DOS. This has bothered me right from the start.
Just one example"Take Five" in 3/4 +2/4 just never sounds right. (That's true of every unsupported meter which requires the alternating time signatures work around.)
Plus it's very difficult to follow both visually onscreen, and because the accented beat carries the same weight in both measures that are supposed to represent one REAL measure.
Worse: lead sheets look truly Mickey Mouse when printed. ( I can't give these charts to pros on a gig!) It's long past time to make these time signatures native.
It's really the one glaring weakness that I just can't ignore.
Please, Please make BIAB a professional tool for musicians who use these meters!
I'm a BIAB proselytizer! Help me out!
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Ronald, welcome to the forum. It's always good to have an experienced user become active here.
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Welcome Ron,
I completely agree. This has been placed in the Wishlist forum many times and each time I gave it a big +1. All time signatures like 5/4, 7/4, 6/8 etc should be native. You should be able to print lead sheets and import into any DAW in those time signatures.
You are not alone in this quest!
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+1 for being able to correctly print out odd time signatures as well as 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8. So Near, So Far comes to mind as a chart that can't be printed correctly.
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+1 for native 6/8 or it ain't country!  Rick
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I know this one has been thrown a lot on the forum, but please make 6/8 an actual time signature that can be recognized in BIAB... Thank you Islansoul and all others for the +1s! Your feedback regarding 6/8 style recognition and availability has been forwarded along to the developers
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