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I have the newest 2013 BIAB Mac. I am using a file I generated previously and trying to get the best sounds as well as put in some variations in different choruses. After I get it exactly how I want it, every time I try to save the changes, quit BIAB, then restart, the file loses the chorus variations. I have tried Save As and Save Song with Patches, but even though they write new files, no chorus variations are saved.
Example:
on 4 bar intro I have piano soloing. On bar 5 I set Soloist to Mute (all Choruses). The next time I open the file, there is piano soloing throughout the tune.
Is there any way to save Bar Settings made to specific choruses other than rendering an audio file?
Gordon Giedt
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I have recently been adding melody intros. to my song library.
In doing so, when the changes are not saved it has been "operator error"
Most of the time I neglect to unfreeze the track I am working on or to freeze
it when done. My project is simpler than your's in that I am only recording an eight bar
Section and the muting for the remainder of the song.
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Are you using the Bar Settings dialog (F5)? All of those settings are saved with your song. Is your piano Soloist a RealTracks or MIDI soloist? If it's RealTracks, perhaps it is on a different track (other than the Soloist track)?
What other variations are you talking about - if you are editing the actual notation on tracks other than the Melody or Soloist track, you will lose those changes unless you freeze the track.
Andrew
PG Music Inc.
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Andrew,
I don't know what I did differently this time, but I got my song to save with all the Bar Settings!!
I have been using the F5 dialog, and my piano Soloist is RealTracks.
Here's what I have:
36 bar song with a 4 bar intro with piano Solo. The changes on the first 36 are slightly different, so I copied them and have the song repeating from bar 41 to 76 six times. On the fourth chorus, I have the piano solo. On the fifth chorus I change the RealDrums to trading fours, and I mute the bass and piano every other four bars. On the sixth chorus I reset the RealDrums to JazzBrushesSticks#1
I have all tracks except RealDrums frozen. (Unfreezing RealDrums is the one thing I know I've done differently. Could that have made it easier for BIAB to save correctly?) Before, when I would save the file, quit BIAB,then re-open the file, sometimes the only track that would play would be the Soloist--no drums, bass, or piano.
Gordon Giedt
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Thanks for the details. I tested it out using a song similar to that, and it is working with or without frozen drums in my testing, so I'm not sure what happened. A couple of tips...
- When using the Bar Settings dialog and applying changes to specific choruses, FIRST select the chorus from the drop-down menu, and THEN select the volume change you want.
- If you Mute an instrument in a specific chorus, remember to set it "back to normal" later in the song.
- If you make bar settings changes to an instrument that is frozen, right-click on the track and select Re-generate track, otherwise it won't play with your changes.
- Another way of generating a solo for a specific range of bars is to have your Solo on the Soloist track, and use the "Custom" solo mode option in the Soloist dialog.
Andrew
PG Music Inc.
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