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The software is written to satisfy 'most' users. You may fall outside of this parameter.
Even if you wouldn't have Oliver Gannon in your band, trust me, he had some input into this matter.

However you can go in and edit several parameters that give you control over the 'embellishment' thing. The first is to turn that off. The second is to read the tutorial, find the way to edit the style and set the parameter to zero.



who's 'most users' ? WE are 'most users'. I don't know what other users you are referring to. Maybe they are more special than some others?

Falling outside of that parameter...you mean the one where users expects a chord progression to play back exactly as specified? That is, about 95 per cent of us? Oh yes, THAT parameter

The problem with Band in a Box is that it is WAY too oriented toward jazz. All the extensions and altered notes can only work if you, as a musician, know EXACTLY what you are doing.....and you can't really let a SOFTWARE decide that for you. Or at least, there should be more options, because the ones that are there, don't really work.

Band in a box should only aid creativity, but to me the mistake is trying to make it do all the work for you, which will never work.

As for editing styles....is there at least a good tutorial video about that? if not ,I'll forget about it, life is too short to figure out every single thing on a computer.

This is just constructive criticism, I don't mean putting down the software, I have used it for years, and I will continue to, but sadly often I had to work really hard to make it do things that are quite basic, really. It should not be like that. It should not require all that hard work, i.e. scanning through dozens of RT and styles to find some that will play back chords as I intend to.

In my opinion, PG Music should really get rid of this 'more is better' philosophy. I doubt that mayhem is what most people want, they want to write music with the least amount of headache.