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I am finally trying to learn to edit styles to get rid of all the unwanted notes that BB throws in, even with 'simple arrangement' etc, which doesn't work as well as I had hoped as I still get chord extensions where I don't want them.
However editing styles seems very time consuming: I had a look at the manual and as far as I understand, I can't just stop BB on the bar I want to 'clean up', fire up the Stylemaker, and delete the unwanted notes by using the notation. It seems that the song always starts from the top and I have to audition all the patterns by ear before I find the pattern I want to clean up. That will take 30 years
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There are Video Tutorials that may help you with the Stylemaker, one I recall is, "Secrets of the Stylemaker" - but I don't recall if it is available on this site for free download or whether it was once included in a package deal. Do a site search for "secrets of the stylemaker".
The one thing that can make the experience exasperating is the making of assumptions here, such aa stopping the song and thinking that is where the Stylemaker itself also "stops" in an effort to find a pattern. It don't work that way.
BTW *MANY* "extraneous* notes are actually there to create realism. Cleaning them all out of the thing may make for a rather dull sounding performance. For example, MIDI Bass parts are often full of "ghost" notes that I wouldn't want to eleiminate.
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The style editor can be overwhelming so I suggest this first...
Make sure that other styles won't work for you. BIAB has thousands of styles some simple and others complex. The jazz that I play requires a very simple bass line. Luckly I found a style that does just that called JAZSIMP. Some of the more complex styles have many patterns while the simpler ones have only a few.
Other options are also available including:
- assign a midi part from a particular style to an individual track
- edit a part to your desire and Freeze the part
- create a hybrid style consisting of parts from different styles
Personally I have had to edit only one style. The only change made was to the ending bars. I'm almost certain you should be able to find a style to do what you want.
Hope it helps
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The one thing that can make the experience exasperating is the making of assumptions here, such aa stopping the song and thinking that is where the Stylemaker itself also "stops" in an effort to find a pattern. It don't work that way.
BTW *MANY* "extraneous* notes are actually there to create realism. Cleaning them all out of the thing may make for a rather dull sounding performance. For example, MIDI Bass parts are often full of "ghost" notes that I wouldn't want to eleiminate.
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re: assumptions.
So, according to your logic, I should instead assume that if I want to fix a bar from bum notes that the program throws in, I should examine all the patterns sequentially, i.e. from no. 1 to no. 198
Just like opening a book and having to read from the beginning when all I want to read is a single chapter.
re: 'realism'
What you call 'realism', I call 'bum notes that I don't want/ need/ find fitting for my song' . Especially considering that I know my harmony and theory very well, and I know exactly what's fitting for my song. Unless, of course, you have the presumption to believe that I should just accept the above mentioned bum notes in my music as 'realistic'.
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I wouldn't edit the Styles. You may want those notes someday. If you do edit it save as a different style so that you still have the original. What you can do is generate the song then go into the notation and pull the notes you don't want. Then DO NOT REGENERATE. Freeze the part. This way it'll stay that way when you do hit play.
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I wouldn't edit the Styles. You may want those notes someday.
Like, when ?
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What you can do is generate the song then go into the notation and pull the notes you don't want.
that's the whole point. I need to listen to every pattern and find the bum notes through a process of elimination, which takes too much time and effort. I can't just stop at a bar and edit the bum notes at that bar.
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Hi Avatars, You said ... Quote:
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. I like this level of control that the "Freeze Track" option gives. My experience suggests that while this is not modifying the style, it's a good, easy-to-work with alternative for getting the end product one seeks. I regularly modify odd notes here and there to get what I want.
Does your version of BIAB have this feature?
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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
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I write styles, from scratch, and often I find BiaB putting notes in that I didn't want. Simplest example, put in a C5 chord, which is supposed to play only root an fifth, and you will see the major third playing along. Write a style without the third and it gives problems on all but 5 chords. There are more complex examples but I thought the simplest one is easiest to explain. I also find BiaB often ignoring the masks in the StyleMaker, and that's fodder for another post. I've spent a lot of times on my styles tweaking and re-tweaking to find a balance between the occurrence of unwanted things I did not write into the style and keeping enough in to still keeping the style interesting. It's one of the challenges of the StyleMaker. So a style that should take a day to write, might take me a week. I might end up with a dozen different variations of a style before finalizing it and picking the one to put on my next disk. But in the long run, it's worth it. My solution is to export what I create to a MIDI file and clean up the song there. I can use notation editor and/or piano roll editor to spot the clams and then erase them. Also time consuming. Please don't misunderstand. I'm very happy with BiaB and believe it is the absolute best auto-accompaniment program out there. Band-in-a-Box does what it does well, but in my opinion it's output is very good, but not ready for prime time. This is where the DAW comes in handy. Real Band will do just fine in that department. I find the two programs together allow you to take the very good output of Band-in-a-Box and turn it into something truly exceptional. Insights and incites by Notes ♫ Brand new 2012.5 updates from Norton Music:- 2 new style disks for Band-in-a-Box
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Since the 'assumption' word has been thrown out already, can we assume that you have checked the appropriate boxes in song settings to not embellish chords, have adjusted the setting in the Arrange dialog dealing with allowing late notes X% of the time (X being between 0 and 100) and set your overrides to Force to simple arrangements? These options may or may not help with your specific problem, but they can impact the final output of BIAB considerably.
Good luck and I hope you find an answer to your dilemma.
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There are no "bum notes." Just notes that we may or may not like to hear at a given moment. Ever listen to Monk? Check out Epistrophy!
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I think it was Miles Davis who said, "There are no wrong notes, only poor choices." And yes, Monk was the master of dissonance in Jazz as Prokofiev was in symphonic music. Love them both. Insights and incites by Notes ♫ Brand new 2012.5 updates from Norton Music:- 2 new style disks for Band-in-a-Box
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In jazz, you're never more than a half-step off. And I play loads of bum notes. I think if I don't, I'm not trying hard enough.
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In Blues and Jazz, there just aren't any bum notes. It's what I was planning to do to begin with, LIVE... 
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In jazz, you're never more than a half-step off. And I play loads of bum notes. I think if I don't, I'm not trying hard enough.
That's why the phrase "playing outside" was coined!!!
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If you play a bum note, resolve it. As Matt pointed out, you are always a half step away from one that works. Then do it again. That way the audience thinks you did it on purpose and the bad note wasn't an accident, instead a dissonant leading tone. Brand new 2012.5 updates from Norton Music:- 2 new style disks for Band-in-a-Box
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I play a lot of dissonant leading tones. :-)
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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.
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<...> 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.
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No BiaB doesn't work that way.
Personally I like the fact that the output of BiaB is different every time. It keeps the predictability down. Plus most arranger keyboards have from 2 to 8 bars (depending on the make/model) that repeat over and over and over and over and over and over again, BiaB can have a few hundred different patterns, with masks to make them appear in musical appropriate situations (depending on the way the style is written). And you can assign different patterns for the same musical situation and assign probability numbers to them so a style with a huge "personality" only appears once in a great while and the more generic patterns appear more frequently.
I've done some "contract" style writing for another auto-accompaniment program and a couple of auto-arranger keyboards, as well as styles for BiaB, and BiaB definitely has the most intelligent style writing tools and is able to produce the most musical output. In other words, it's by far the best auto-accompaniment tool I've seen. It does have it's limitations, but it's heads and shoulders above the rest.
Brand new 2012.5 updates from Norton Music:- 2 new style disks for Band-in-a-Box
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- The Ultimate Gospel Fake Disk
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Our new rock & pop RealTracks bring a powerful mix of requested favorites, fresh genres, and modern chart-inspired styles! We have more of our popular “Producer Layered Acoustic Guitars (15)” featuring Band-in-a-Box favorite Brent Mason. We’ve continued our much-requested disco styles (10), and added new Celtic guitar (5) with a more basic, accessible approach than our previous Drop-D or DADGAD offerings. There are also highly requested yacht rock styles (17), inspired by the smooth, polished soft-rock sound of the late ’70s and early ’80s — laid-back grooves, silky electric pianos, warm textures, elegant harmonic movement, and pristine production aesthetics. Fans of heavier styles will love our new glam metal (13), capturing the flashy, high-energy sound of ’80s arena-ready guitar rock. We also have a set of rootsy modern-folk rock (18), with a warm, organic sound combining contemporary folk textures and driving acoustic strumming. And we’ve added lots of new modern pop styles (16) — the kinds of sounds you’re hearing on the radio today, featuring exciting new drums, synths, and cutting-edge RealTracks arrangements.
Country, & Americana (Sets 483–488):
Our new country & Americana RealTracks deliver a rich collection of acoustic, electric, and roots-inspired styles! We have new country pop (9) with legendary guitarist Brent Mason. There is also a potpourri (14) of bouzouki, guitars, banjo, and more, perfect for adding texture and character to contemporary acoustic arrangements. We’ve added funky country guitar (5) with PG favorite Brent Mason, along with classic pedal steel styles (5) featuring steel great Doug Jernigan. There are more country songwriter styles (8) that provide intimate, rootsy foundations for storytelling and modern Americana writing. Finally, we have “background soloing” acoustic guitar (12) with Brent Mason — simpler, but still very tasty acoustic lines designed to sit beautifully behind vocals or act as a subtle standalone solo part.
Check out all the 202 new RealTracks (in sets 468-488)!
And, if you are looking for more, the 2026 49-PAK (for $49) includes an impressive collection of 20 bonus RealTracks, featuring exciting and inspiring additions to add to your RealTracks library. You'll get new country-rhythm guitar styles from PG Music favorites Johnny Hiland and Brent Mason, along with modern-pop grooves that capture today’s radio-ready sound! There are also new indie-folk styles with guitar, bass, 6-string bass used as a high-chording instrument, acoustic guitar, and banjo. Plus, dedicated "cymbal fills" RealDrums provide an added layer that work very well with low-key folky styles with other percussion.
The 2026 49-PAK is loaded with other great new add-ons as well. Learn more about the 2026 49-PAK!
2026 Free Bonus PAK & 49-PAK for Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac®!
With your version 2026 for Mac Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, Audiophile Edition or PlusPAK purchase, we'll include a Bonus PAK full of great new Add-ons for FREE! Or upgrade to the 2026 49-PAK for only $49 to receive even more NEW Add-ons including 20 additional RealTracks!
These PAKs are loaded with additional add-ons to supercharge your Band-in-a-Box®!
This Free Bonus PAK includes:
- The 2026 RealCombos Booster PAK:
-For Pro customers, this includes 27 new RealTracks and 23 new RealStyles.
-For MegaPAK customers, this includes 25 new RealTracks and 23 new RealStyles.
-For UltraPAK customers, this includes 12 new RealStyles.
- MIDI Styles Set 92: Look Ma! More MIDI 15: Latin Jazz
- MIDI SuperTracks Set 46: Piano & Organ
- Instrumental Studies Set 24: Groovin' Blues Soloing
- Artist Performance Set 19: Songs with Vocals 9
- Playable RealTracks Set 5
- RealDrums Stems Set 9: Cool Brushes
- SynthMaster Sounds Set 1 (with audio demos)
- iOS Android Band-in-a-Box® App
Looking for more great add-ons, then upgrade to the 2026 49-PAK for just $49 and you'll get:
- 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums with 20 RealStyle.
- FLAC Files (lossless audio files) for the 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums
- MIDI Styles Set 93: Look Ma! More MIDI 16: SynthMaster
- MIDI SuperTracks Set 47: More SynthMaster
- Instrumental Studies 25 - Soul Jazz Guitar Soloing
- Artist Performance Set 20: Songs with Vocals 10
- RealDrums Stems Set 10: Groovin' Sticks
- SynthMaster Sounds & Styles Set 2 (sounds & styles with audio demos)
Learn more about the Bonus PAK and 49-PAK for Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac®!
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