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Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. #723244 07/06/22 11:16 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP goofeyfoot Apprentice Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 150	Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures? AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core Processor. 3.79 GHZ; RAM = 32.00 GB; 64 Bit Operating System; Windows 10; Focusrite 8i18 External Card; Real Band; Band in a Box; Coyote Forte Wave Table; Oxygen 49 MIDI Controller

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723249 07/06/22 11:46 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,035 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	It's to help readability for the form of a song. If you place a Part Marker (making the beginning of that measure have a blue or green indicator), it will 'break' the line and place that measure on the start of the following line. Click on the blue or green to change it to no color, and the measures will 'close up' back to the line above. You also have the option to turn this behavior off. Right-click in the chordsheet and bring up Display Options. Uncheck "New Line for Every Section'. BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. Matt Finley #723257 07/06/22 02:44 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP goofeyfoot Apprentice Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 150	I know why the sections have different colors. What I’m asking is why the measures themselves are gray? Gray as in the color of the cells where the chord names exist. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core Processor. 3.79 GHZ; RAM = 32.00 GB; 64 Bit Operating System; Windows 10; Focusrite 8i18 External Card; Real Band; Band in a Box; Coyote Forte Wave Table; Oxygen 49 MIDI Controller

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723270 07/06/22 04:34 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,035 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	Have you changed the default colors of the Chordsheet? If not, there is a clear difference between the color of a cell that is empty or has a chord entered, and a cell that is ‘blocked off’ for the reason I described. Could you elaborate more? BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723276 07/06/22 08:07 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	Originally Posted By: goofeyfoot I know why the sections have different colors. What I’m asking is why the measures themselves are gray? Gray as in the color of the cells where the chord names exist. Do you possibly have more bars than the chorus setting. i.e. that extend past the length of the chorus, like this? Attached Files (Click to download or enlarge) (Only available when you are logged in) 2022-07-07_16-05-34.jpg (103.08 KB, 122 downloads) BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723283 07/06/22 10:35 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Noel96 Veteran Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 19,832 Australia	Originally Posted By: goofeyfoot I know why the sections have different colors. What I’m asking is why the measures themselves are gray? Gray as in the color of the cells where the chord names exist. Hi, Would you mind posting a screen-capture of your desktop when BIAB is open? It would help a great deal to see the situation that's confronting you. The link below explains how to capture a screen shot and post an image in the forum should you not be familiar with this process. https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=472139#Post472139 Regards, Noel MY SONGS... Audiophile BIAB 2025 audios on Soundcloud

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723309 07/07/22 03:23 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Guitarhacker Veteran Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 10,343 Middlesex, NC	When I see the gray bars it's because I haven't reset the END OF THE SONG number of measures. This will happen when I do a copy and paste that adds measures to the song that now extends it beyond the song ending in the number of bars in the song box. I don't recall the exact wording so excuse my verbiage..... Simply go to the "last measure of the song bar number" box and edit it to be a higher number. It's perfectly fine for example to have a LAST MEASURE set to 150 and only need 120 measures in the song. I do that all the time when I am creating my own unique ending such as a slow down to a hold and don't want to use the BB canned ending. Last edited by Guitarhacker; 07/07/22 03:25 AM. You can find my music at: www.herbhartley.com Add nothing that adds nothing to the music. You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both. The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. Guitarhacker #723312 07/07/22 03:32 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	I tend to agree, Herb. I think there are possibly more bars in the song than the chorus settings are set for. Hopefully the O/P will provide some feedback that can assist. BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723318 07/07/22 04:16 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Joseph Land Expert J Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO	An alternative reason would be if the song is in 4/4 time and you have some measures set to 2/4 time with 2 chords in the cell. Something to double check. Attached Files (Click to download or enlarge) (Only available when you are logged in) timing.jpg (355.15 KB, 84 downloads) BIAB2025 Windows 10 Pro WA6NCB No Longer on a Crappy Laptop!

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. Joseph Land #723319 07/07/22 04:19 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	Another good point, and one that definitely needs investigation and clarification. This could be exactly what is being witnessed. Hopefully the O/P will provide a response soon. BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. Joseph Land #723320 07/07/22 04:33 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Gordon Scott Veteran Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 2,484 Hampshire, UK	Originally Posted By: jcland An alternative reason would be if the song is in 4/4 time and you have some measures set to 2/4 time with 2 chords in the cell. Something to double check. FWIW, I had that after importing a MusicXML file, because BiaB was confused about something in the XML. The song was in cut-time (2/2), but BiaB was trying to treat is as 4/4 time and did as you show. Quote: 2022 (912) is very much better. The MusicXML imports OK and appears to show chords and notation almost as expected. The one thing which doesn't work quite right, the greyed out second half of each bar, I looked a little further into. This appears to be due to the time signature being cut-time and the import seems to misinterpret that. I changed the MusicXML file to common-time and the import then worked as expected. Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful. AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11 BIAB2025 Audiophile, a bunch of other software. Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts .

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. Gordon Scott #723321 07/07/22 04:42 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 20,316 Melbourne, Australia	All valuable points. The interesting thing is that the O/P mentioned "Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play". No mention of the individual chords in the bars was made, only the bars. But let's hope that one of these great suggestions from everyone here assists to resolve the issue. Our collective inquiring minds need to know BIAB & RB2025 Win.(Audiophile), Sonar Platinum, Cakewalk by Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M Monitors, Pioneer Active Monitors, AKG K271 Studio H'phones

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723338 07/07/22 06:51 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP goofeyfoot Apprentice Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 150	I can’t do a screenshot because I just deleted the song and started over. I can tell you this. The gray bars were inside of the song. So e.g. if the song was 24 bars long the gray bars might’ve been 19 and 20. Also, I looked at the settings for each of the gray bars at the time. I put 44 time for all of them. So I don’t know where any time changes could’ve come from. I didn’t even make any AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core Processor. 3.79 GHZ; RAM = 32.00 GB; 64 Bit Operating System; Windows 10; Focusrite 8i18 External Card; Real Band; Band in a Box; Coyote Forte Wave Table; Oxygen 49 MIDI Controller

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723341 07/07/22 07:27 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Chantelle - PG Music PG Music Staff Joined: Oct 2020 Posts: 836	Grey bars in the middle of a song is rare. But if it happens, then copying and pasting the chords to a new song project usually fixes it. Best, Chantelle

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723342 07/07/22 07:42 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Joseph Land Expert J Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 979 Springfield, MO	The only other thing I can think of this happening would be if the style was changed during the song. If it was not changed then I am stumped. Goofeyfoot: Let is know it the problem was resolved when you re-did the song. My curiosity meter is way up now. BIAB2025 Windows 10 Pro WA6NCB No Longer on a Crappy Laptop!

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723349 07/07/22 09:06 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP goofeyfoot Apprentice Joined: Apr 2018 Posts: 150	I didn’t solve the issue. I just did what Chantelle said. It’s just a workaround. AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core Processor. 3.79 GHZ; RAM = 32.00 GB; 64 Bit Operating System; Windows 10; Focusrite 8i18 External Card; Real Band; Band in a Box; Coyote Forte Wave Table; Oxygen 49 MIDI Controller

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723350 07/07/22 09:09 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,035 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	If it happens again, please show us. BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723356 07/07/22 09:31 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Jim Fogle Veteran Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 10,814 Winston Salem, NC USA	It maybe a Band-in-a-Box notation setting that starts a new line whenever you add a part marker. Access notation settings: Ctrl+E > Notation Attached Files (Click to download or enlarge) (Only available when you are logged in) Clipboard01 Notation.jpg (166.83 KB, 48 downloads) Jim Fogle - 2025 BiaB (Build 1128) RB (Build 5) - Ultra+ PAK DAWs: Cakewalk Sonar - Standalone: Zoom MRS-8 Laptop: i3 Win 10, 8GB ram 500GB HDD Desktop: i7 Win 11, 12GB ram 256GB SSD, 4 TB HDD Music at: https://fogle622.wix.com/fogle622-audio-home

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723365 07/07/22 09:51 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,035 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	I did not know that was there. I wonder if it is a second way to do the Display Setting I cited earlier? BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Why Are Bars Gray and they Won't Play, Even When they are in the song's total measures. goofeyfoot #723369 07/07/22 11:05 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Charlie Fogle Veteran C Joined: Apr 2013 Posts: 8,675 South Carolina	The Fakesheet button and repeats/1st & 2nd endings can also cause grey bars in the middle of a chord Sheet Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 07/07/22 11:06 AM. BIAB 2025:RB 2025, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.

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