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I've never tried that so I can't give you a definite answer but I don't think there would be any problem. The one exception would be the time sig if the reciepient doesn't have your style. Say it's a jazz waltz, or any other non 4/4 time sig, s/he doesn't have the style and lets Biab use the default zzjazz style. Well, that style is in 4 so the chart would be wrong. I would simply change the songs to one of the old original all midi styles, don't let biab do the auto replacement of the drum track with an RD, do a 'save as' and store them in a separate directory. Then you know there's no problems because everybody should have those old styles.



What I've done so far is to create a shared folder for one particular band on Dropbox, and fill it with the MGU files of the repertoire, along with MP3 versions of the same files, with the melody suppressed in all. I can send any member of the band a link to this folder, and once he's set up the Dropbox link, that folder becomes a part of his computer which is automatically kept in step with my master copies. He can open an MGU file in BIAB and use this directly as a backing track (if he has the same RealTracks etc as I have) or else use the MP3 file. I hadn't realised that the time signature could be overruled by a default style, but presumably there's a waltz style somewhere that could keep the leadsheet in 3/4 even if it wouldn't sound right.

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If you also want them to hear a good arrangement of the song you can always create a WMA from within Biab of your new hot version with all the latest stuff and send that along with the old style for the leadsheet. Or, you can do the leadsheet yourself, save as a pdf and just send that with the WMA file. There's free programs that act as a printer but it's not, it saves as a pdf. Lots of ways to accomplish this.




I'm not at all keen on maintaining multiple copies of the same song, with variations to suit everybody - there's so much scope for failure to keep everything in step - especially where Bb and Eb versions are also needed. I use PDF995 as a virtual printer when I need a PDF file of a lead-sheet.

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Oh, as to your funny old English expression, we can discuss that over cocktails if you'd like...

Bob



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