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Avatars, you said ...
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I can't just stop at a bar and edit the bum notes at that bar.


This is possible with "Freeze Tracks" (that people have been mentioning). Once a track has been generated, with version 2012, it's possible to make changes in the generated notation and then "Freeze" the track so that when you regenerate the song, the track remains unchanged and the edits stick.

Does your version of BIAB have this feature?

Regards,
Noel



the problem is not retaining the changes, the problem is getting directly to the patterns that are playing in that bar and editing one particular pattern. BB only shows you a complete list of all the patterns, which means I have to listen to all the patterns one by one in order to find the one I want to fix.

Life is too short for that.

I don't care about the pattern. What I am trying to do, is deleting the bum notes that BB play in that particular pattern, for example a guitar arpeggio that plays unwanted extensions and non-diatonic sharps and flats, or unwanted passing notes, either diatonic or chromatic. It does that even when using 'simple arrangement' and if I use 'jazz down chords' it will 'jazz down' even the chords with the extension and alterations that I wrote, i.e. it does not 'jazz down chords' within a range of bars or a range of notes, which actually should.

I am not trying to 'make a style'. There's zillions of them in the program itself already. I am only trying to make the program play exactly the chords I write in, which rarely does. This is an issue that I have been mentioning for years. It's an old story. I try to make BB work for me, then I get frustrated, then I forget about it, and after a couple months I think 'mmmh....maybe there's a way to make it work, let's have a look again'. And so on. It became a vicious circle. I really think it's one step from being the greatest program I can get, but that one step away from it, makes it impossible for me to work with.

This is definitely going to be my last try, then I'll just use it to generate the realdrums and use it as a luxury drum machine and mute all the other parts, except maybe the bass. I am not mocking the work that the developers have put in. It's a great program but it does not work for me. I write pop, rock, semi-classical and soundtrack music. Don't really write much jazz.

I have BB 2012

Last edited by avatars_the_titletrack; 07/09/12 06:16 AM.