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Ok, I have tried everything I know to try and w/o any luck.



when you mention the one beat pickup, are you referring to "WHAT'S YOUR..." and then Bar one starts with "NAME" ? (the rest of my post assumes that's the case...if not, just discard my ranting.)


I just downloaded the song from Youtube, loaded it into ACW, set bar one (and everything else synced up pretty well)

When I was finished and ready to send it back to RB, the message appeared "THE FIRST BAR IS SMALLER THAN THE SECOND BAR.. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?"... I picked the last option "keep the first bar but use a tempo change"

when the song reopened in RB, the lead-in was there. Personally, I think its kind of confusing that you set bar 1 at one place, but when you leave the ACW, the message referring to the first bar is actually talking about the part of the song BEFORE where you set bar 1... in this case, the lead in section you want to preserve. Its basically asking if you want to keep it or discard it. Maybe you've been discarding it?

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I have started with a .wav file and then a .mp3 file no luck.

either should work

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The very first thing I do is play the song and set bar one.
I then depict the different sections and adjust the tempo as needed.
It does not bring over the one beat pickup.



which option did you pick when it asked you how to handle the first bar?

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I have tried to add a barline on the pickup note and then it will pick it up however the measures are off. The bar with the pickup has no chords and is depicted as bar 0.
On some of my other songs there is a bar (-1), but I am not sure if that has any meaning.



yes, bars -1 or -2 create space for whatever part of the song you want to keep BEFORE the place where you set Bar 1

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Within ACW I don't think I can add a bar to the beginning, remember this is an import of a song.



that's true, you can't add it in the ACW... the -1 bar gets added automatically when the song gets sent back to real band

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Also, I tried to make bar (0) a bar (-1) but I couldn't do it.
I mean it is not the end of the world but I like these things to work and also I learn as I go.

Thank you for all your help..



the only place I'm aware of that you can declare how many bars exist before bar 1 is on the chord view or track view, just above the keyboard, about 2/3 of the way across the screen It's labeled "BAR OFFSET", and in this case it only needs to be -1 to account for the lead-in.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0