Andy,

In my experience, triplets and BIAB's notation of them has mixed results depending on the type of triplets and the notes involved. That being said, though, while they are not always displayed accurately, they ARE always played accurately by the program.

I set my triplets using the Piano Roll editor.

For example: to set the quarter note triplets you mention. I'd go into Piano Roll editor and ...

1. Set the "Snap" and the "Dur" (i.e. the "snap to grid" and the "duration of the note") to the quarter note with the "3" beside it as shown below. (Note that all notes with a "3" beside them indicate triplet resolution. As can be seen, BIAB has many triplet resolution settings.)



2. Then I'd hold down control+shift to make the writing tool appear and I'd enter the notes I wanted. If they did not enter on the correct pitch or time-location, I'd simply release the control+shift and the cursor then allows the midi notes to be dragged and positioned anywhere on the piano roll's grid.

To explain what I mean about the confusion between the way triplet notation displays as opposed to how it plays, the following pictures tell the story.

Picture 1: The notes C, D, E entered as quarter note triplets using Piano Roll editor.



Picture 2: The above notes displayed in Editable Notation Mode (using the "triplet resolution" setting found in "Opt").



Picture 3: The same notes displayed in Notation Mode (the triplet resolution setting is still set but the "editable" ability has been disengaged).



Picture 4: Same triplets as above with the "tick offset" found in "Opt" set to "0". In Picture 3, above, the tick offset was set to -7.



In ALL instances, though, the triplets play 100% correctly as the display is independent of playback.

From my perspective, the bottom line is that if you are after the sound of triplets being played correctly, BIAB will do that perfectly in every instance and in many resolutions. To enter a triplet correctly, I always choose to use the Piano Roll editor. If, however, I'm after triplets to be displayed correctly on a lead sheet, that may or may not be possible. Because of this, I use a separate notation program for notating lead sheets that are beyond the capability of BIAB. For 95% of my work, though, BIAB is brilliant.

Hope my above perspective gives you are little more insight.

Regards,
Noel

Last edited by Noel96; 12/09/11 03:09 PM.
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