I've found a few reasonably good sounding renditions of traditional hymns and gospel songs that sound great when I render them via BIAB, but for my purposes/use in real life, these need at least an INTRO....and ideally bridges between stanzas.

Anyone have experiences or tips/techniques on how to grab and position 4/8 bar segments of an existing melody/soloist line?

I realize that in theory it could be done manually, but the kinds of MIDIs I'm interested in manipulating have lots of 2nd voices in both treble and bass clefs (piano). I've yet to discover how that (2nd voices that are rhythmically different than the melody) can be done in BIAB.

I have BIAB 2010.5, ProTools 9, Sibelius 6.2 and an XS-8 synthesizer...but would prefer the least complicated/best outcome process which logically appears to be BIAB, but not sure at this point!

TIA
Dave