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Hi all: New to this software and am falling in love with it.

Question:

Is there a way to tell BIAB to generate specific measures in a piece.

Example: I've entered the chords for 36 measures and generated the song and like what's there except measures 20 and 21.

Is there a way to tell the software to re-generate ONLY measures 20 and 21?

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I made an answer to this earlier today, after Mario’s answer. Is this a duplicate thread?


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Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I made an answer to this earlier today, after Mario’s answer. Is this a duplicate thread?
Yes, the same question was asked in Beginners Forum. New(ish) user might be on a learning curve of where's the best place to post.


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and the answer was the same - yes you can do it in RealBand

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Originally Posted By: SlapPappy
...Is there a way to tell BIAB to generate specific measures in a piece...

Edit > Copy Special > Copy/Move Track...
In the Audio Edit window set to "Snap"
Select bars
Click Edit button or right click track in mixer
Select Generate
Select the same RT or RD

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oops yes I did duplicate it Thanks

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Thanks, you hit it in one. I expect to get better at this part of it too

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Wow thanks that's such a clear response. I'll give it a go later today.

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Pipeline:

I'm falling short somewhere in following your directions. I come to a dead end.

When I click "select and generate real tracks" I get the following window and it doesn't lead to any realtracks.

I think I'm missing a step somewhere

Thanks for your help.



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Go to the normal RealTrack Picker and select Rebuild Fix

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Pipeline:

Thank you so much. This has been a real treat for me especially as a first time asking a question on the forum.

I'll mark it as resolved and post a step by step tutorial.

Thank You Again

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OK So with the help of this community and especially a veteran user pipeline, I've been clued in to a suitable method for doing exactly what I wanted.

Specifically I had a piano part that I didn't like a single measure that BIAB generated and I wanted to instruct it to re generate that single measure.

(the solution would also work for several measures.)

The following is a step by step.

Click Edit and then go down to "copy special" and click "copy/move tracks
(on mine system thew window takes a while to open) see diagram 1.

choose the source and destination tracks

Click OK

In my case the Piano track has been copied to Utility 1

Click on the Utility 1 track
Click “Audio” then click “audio edit”

This opens the Audio Edit window as in Diagram 2 and displays the audio on Utility 1

Click the checkbox for “snap” and highlight the measure you want to regenerate
(in my case measure 3)

right click on Utility 1 track and highlight generate and then click on “select and generate real tracks”

The style window opens

Select the real track that matches the track you're replacing

Click OK

BIAB now regenerates the piano for measure 3 only

Done

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SlapPappy.

You just didn't complete the process using the Utility Track RealTrack Picker.

If you click on the 'Show All' button and all of the RealTracks will appear in the list.

Otherwise, you filter searches the same as with the other BIAB Stylepickers. Also, many times you'll be working with RealTracks that are already listed and used on tracks in the SGU song so if you're working with editing one of these tracks on a Utility Track, the RealTrack number is available and you just type it into the search box without having to do a search.

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I've started working with this method in earnest this morning and have come to an appreciation of re generating in the audio edit window.

Working with the waveform allows the user to pick the suitable place to begin and end re generating. Regenerating right on the bar marker might not be the best place to jump in and selecting a place sooner near a null point is smooth.

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Thanks Charlie:

Actually it turned out that I needed to rebuild the style list.

All good now and thanks to this community I'm movin along

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