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It has worked for others Sam.

1. When you press Play, a yellow message should appear at the top right of the screen, to remind you that Woodshed tempo is on.

2. Then, if you just press play, it won't increase tempo until the entire song finishes.
If you select a region (on the main chordsheet), and then press play-loop, it will increase for each of those loops.

Are you seeing the message in #1?

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Sam, to set the "woodshed" tempos, select (from the top line menu) "Opt, Preferences" (or press the PREF button on the toolbar). Then select the "Arrange" tab.

Over on the right side of the options that pop up, about half-way down, you'll see the "woodshed" options. There are three settings you can make.

"Woodshed Tempo By" - sets how many bpm you want to increase each time the song plays (or the loop repeats). So, if the song starts at 90, then the next time through, it will be 100.

"Mode" - this gives you three options. 1) "Up" just keeps going up by your "woodshed tempo by" until you reach the maximum tempo allowed by BIAB (500 BPM) and then just stays there (at 500 BPM). 2) "Up/Reset to Base/Up" keeps going up by your "woodshed tempo by" until you reach the maximum tempo increase you specify, and then returns to the base tempo and starts going back up again. 3) "Up, Then Down" keeps going up by your "woodshed tempo by" amount until you reach the maximum tempo increase you specify, then starts going back down to the base tempo, then starts all over again going up and down.

So, if your songs has a base tempo of 85, and you set the "by" amount to 10, and the max amount to 30, and the "mode" to "Up Then Down", then highlight a selection to loop and click the "loop" (not to be confused by the "loops") button, your tempos will change as:

85 - 95 - 105 - 115 - 105 - 95 - 85 and then do it all over again.

Hope that helps, and it worked just fine in my testing.

By the way, when you are finished with the woodshed feature, you need to go back into the "arrange" screen and reset the "by" amount to zero, otherwise all your songs will do this. When you start playing, there is a yellow box that pops up to remind you that the woodshed feature is engaged. If you click on the yellow box before it disappears, you can also turn it off that way.

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I love the idea of thew new Woodshed tempo feature, but can't get it to work. I set the woodshed tempo for "up" and 10, but song does not speed up when it loops. Anyone tried this yet?

Am I missing something?

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Sam, my response (which was not copy/paste from the manual) was based on the limited amount of information you gave. I personally tested each feature (to double check it on my machine, since I like this feature also, and it works exactly as advertised. So if it doesn't work now, the problem is somewhere else on your machine.

Let us know how your continued testing proceeds and good luck.

And again, remember to turn it off when you're done, or you'll be in for a surprise the 2nd time through the song.

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If you don't want the choruses to repeat, then just temporarily set the chorus count to "1". Each chorus is considered part of the song - remember, the song can start with any number of bars and the chorus can start on any bar number, and you can always jump out of the chorus to the tag ending, and then there's the two-bar ending. Where in the middle of that would the song change tempo without finishing the whole song?

When you do the whole song, make sure the loop checkbox is checked, otherwise, it won't go back and play the song at the new tempo.

I hope that made sense.

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