Thanks but I'm not that well educated in theory really; it's just standard chord-scale stuff jazzers use these days..(I rarely use it in soloing but its good to know for composing).

I can understand though that such an issue isn't high on the priority list of of users who write/play songs which have lots of quick moving changes/cadences in a diatonic setting. It would be hard to detect these problems using BIAB in this way so for all intents and purposes the program behaves the way it should for those folks.
When you have 2 to 4 measures of a chord it becomes more noticeable. And yes workarounds always exist. For example I now know that if I want to hear a b9 played in the bass line over C7b9 I need to use Bbm9b5/C. If I want to relate CmMaj7 to C melodic minor I need to try alternating it with EbMaj7#5 and possibly Bb7#5b9 among other chords and force the bass line to do my bidding.

The thing is that BIAB has changed chord-to-scale relationships in the past. I remember one fix in a previous release that improved the soloing over slash chords by altering just that, so it's reasonable to expect that this is a do-able proposition and not a perfectionist pipe dream. I do wish however that someone from the programming team would pop up now and again to say for sure one way or another.

PS.....Well so much for the idea of using Bbm9b5/C instead of C7b9. The bass stresses B natural notes instead of C!! Strangely enough the scale generator correctly plays C... Back to the drawing board I guess!!

Regards

Alan

Last edited by alan S.; 03/13/12 09:27 PM.