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I know I can feature select instruments by doing Bb.G to play only the guitar. I style I am playing has two guitars and this option picks the Guitar 2 but i need to pick Guitar 1. How would I accomplish that?

Another question would be how would I play instruments other than B,D, G? Like a Pedal Steel real track?

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Originally Posted By: Bob Poznanovich
I know I can feature select instruments by doing Bb.G to play only the guitar. I style I am playing has two guitars and this option picks the Guitar 2 but i need to pick Guitar 1. How would I accomplish that?

Another question would be how would I play instruments other than B,D, G? Like a Pedal Steel real track?


Best to do it via the bar setting dialogue box [F5]. Just mute and unmute each instrument when and where needed.

The naming conventions of the tracks will not be the "legacy" names (e.g. bass in 1st slot, drums in second, then guitar strings, melody and solo, regardless of which RTs are actually populating those tracks) as you have in the mixer (IIRC), which you can switch off anyway.


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Hi Bob,

Adding to DeaconBlue's comment...

I always run BIAB using the static, legacy names rather than have the names change to reflect the instrument on them. These static names remain constant, independent of what instrument sits on them. In addition, these static names are the basis of the symbols used to exclude instruments with shots, holds and rests.

To turn of the dynamic naming feature...

1. Open preferences

2. Deselect 'Show custom track labels...' and 'Auto-generate track labels' as shown on the image below


Then, if you have two guitars, say one on the Piano track and one on the String track, all that needs to be typed is X.ps -- where X = a chord, the period is a 'rest' and the 'ps' tells BIAB to ignore the rest for whatever instruments are on the Piano and String tracks.

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