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One more time to complain about the inability for BIAB to notate "Triplets" (Quarter Notes specifically)correctly!!
Is this "really" something that requires a lot of technical adjustments to the BIAB program itself?
I would think that BIAB would have surpassed the technical limitations of such a minor deficiency by now!
I could be wrong, but I believe with the amount of requests for this feature to be corrected there would have been a fix for this years ago.
I personally need to use this feature quite often, as I'm sure many other users of BIAB do as well.
Come on PG Music, This is something that's very basic and needed if you're on your way to becoming (or are already there) a serious musician!!
Maybe this will be available as a Christmas gift in BIAB 2012?!?!? (Please)
Harpo
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Hi Harpo, Are you entering them the way described in the BIAB FAQs? Quote:
25. How do I display 'Swing' notation (triplets) and 'Even feel' notation (sixteenths) in the same song? How do I enter quarter note triplets?
You can toggle between Swing and Even feel notation by enabling/disabling 'Triplet Resolution' in the Notation Window Options dialog. Alternatively, you can change the resolution for any beat individually by doing the following:
In the Notation Window, activate 'editable notation mode' by pressing the [N] button once. You should see groups of vertical dashed lines.
Right-click on the time indicator line above the beat that you want to change. This will bring up the Beat Resolution dialog. The time indicator line is the narrow horizontal space above the lyric entry area; it contains a little black cursor that shows the current position of your song.
In the Beat Resolution dialog, set the number of beats to 3 if you are in an even feel style and want triplets, or 4 if you are in a triplet style and want sixteenths.
Assuming that you are in triplet resolution, you can insert an eighth note triplet by placing notes on three consecutive dashed lines. For quarter note triplets, place a note on every second dashed line. Note that while your music will always play the way you input it, you may not always be able to get triplets to display exactly how you want. This a limitation of the Band-in-a-Box notation display.
If you find that a quarter note triplet you have entered does not display with the proper triplet notation (ie 3 quarter notes with a '3' over top of them), note that:
In the Notation Window Options dialog, the "Tick Offset" setting can be used to adjust how the notes are displayed. Try setting this to zero; this may allow your triplet to be displayed properly.
Quarter note triplet display will not work as well if you are using an even feel style and are changing an individual beat to triplet feel. It works better if the overall feel of the style is a triplet feel.
Quarter note triplets will never display properly if they span beats 2 and 3 in any measure.
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Yes, I get it guys.
There are "workarounds", kind of ("not on beats 2 & 3"?), but why the need for workarounds at all with such an often used type of notation?
There's got to be a way to "fix" this without to much blood, sweat and tears I'd think!
I'll just keep wishing I guess, or maybe just go out and by "Sibelius".
Just thought I'd put another bug in some peoples ears!
Peace
Harpo
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Quarter note triplets over beats 2 and 3 are not seen too often. The way we enter quarter note triplets (in the jazz styles), over beats 1-2 and 3-4 are not workarounds. It's as easy as entering your 3 quarter notes and you have it. Very easy. Later, Ray
Asus Q500A i7 Win 10 64 bit 8GB ram 750 HD 15.5" touch screen, BIAB 2017, Casio PX 5s, Xw P1, Center Point Stereo SS V3 and EWI 4000s.
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Hi Harpo, Here's a link to a post that I put up not so long ago about triplets. Note Peter Gannon's reply  ... link to my postAll the best, Noel
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