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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 totally understand what you're trying to do, I sometimes get frustrated by that myself. The thing is this is specifically what Biab is not designed to do. The name Band In A Box is taken literally by PG. I get the impression the Gannon family are classical jazz players. Biab is designed to emulate a real band playing live and there's all kinds of flaws (or designed flaws) in a live performance as everybody has mentioned already. That's it's reason for existance, to give some variation in the playback everytime. All I can suggest is if you want your parts to be exact you have to do them the old fashioned way, use a DAW and record them yourself either with a midi controller or as audio with an instrument.

I have a lot of fun with my Korg Pa1xPro arranger keyboard. Similar styles to Biab but better in a lot of cases. The only thing is after two years with it is the styles play exactly the same everytime. My ears started picking up on that after a while. The keyboard styles are nothing but a collection of short midi files put together as a style. I can write my own styles simply by recording or importing a one or two bar midi clip. That's what you're after I think but Biab just doesn't work that way.

Bob

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