After 4 months of communicating with PG Music on the problem of patch change in the version 2010 of BIAB and not having this problem fixed, I even wrote a personal letter to Mr. Peter Gannon, I decided to purchase the new version 2011 for Mac. Error, this version has the same problem and I got the following response from the Support Group :

"Not being able to change the patch on the melody and Soloist tracks from the bar settings menu in the Mac version is a long-standing issue. I first want to make sure that you know you can change the patch using the patch pull-down menu from the main screen of Band-in-a-Box. However, you cannot make changes at a given bar.

We have just released Mac 2011 and we, here in the technical support department, were very hopeful that this issue would be addressed in the programming. We brought it forward to the developers many times; however, it was not fixed.

I would strongly encourage you to post your concerns on our Mac forum from www.pgmusic.com <http://www.pgmusic.com> . That way the developers will know how you are feeling and that our customers are concerned about the issue and want it addressed.

On behalf of the technical support team, I am sorry that we were not able to provide a fix for you for this issue."

Thank you,
Gail Caryn
Office Manager
PG Music Inc

So beware if you want to purchase the 2011 version and parch changes are important.