Hi lingyai,

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-- Noel96, I did not see a pm from you, but I did follow the steps you mentioned re resetting all the bars.

I'm not quite sure what happened to the original message I wrote for you. I have now sent another private message with a link to the file I modified.

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Unfortunately, this did not work -- while it enables the entire realstyle including the pedal steel to play, the result is out of tune and sync with the audio file.

Another possible reason there is a synch problem is because the BIAB style that has been added to the song is one that has 4 beats in a bar and the song itself has 3 beats to the bar. This mismatch has the potential to create issues.

I notice that you mentioned that you don't have a great deal of musical schooling. There's nothing wrong with that smile BIAB is a great tool for music enthusiasts whatever there musical background!

To try and help you understand this situation a little better, I need to enter the "Music Schooling" arena for a bit. Please accept my apologies in advance if, any time, I sound patronising. It is unintentional.

TIME SIGNATURES
These tell a song how many beats are in a bar. From a listening perspective, this is determined by counting the beats from strong beat to strong beat (since every bar starts with a strong beat). By far the large majority of songs are written with 4 distinctive, evenly spaced beats to a bar.

There are millions of examples of 4/4 time signatures but the one that springs to mind while I'm tying is The Beatles' "Help".

... link to "Help"

The next most common time signature is waltz time which has 3 evenly spaced beats in a bar. The song that springs to mind here is "You Light Up My Life"

... link to "You Light Up My Life".

There are also other, less used time signatures in the music world but I'll save those for another day.

BIAB STYLES
For the most part, the styles within BIAB's style picker reflect the above time signatures in that I estimate that around 98% of the styles will be one of either 4 beats to a bar or 3 beats to a bar. PG Music help users to identify these two styles by using the symbol "W" for "Waltz". Thus, wherever a "W" is seen immediately after a style's name, that style will have 3 beats to a bar. (See the image below.)



If no "W" is present, then the style will have 4 beats to a bar. Any exceptions to this (which are few and far between, by the way) will be noted in the description of the style.

For BIAB to work properly, it's necessary to match styles with a song's time signature. That is, if a song has 3 beats in a bar, the style chosen to back the song also needs 3 beats in a bar.

In the case of the song file that you've created by importing a midi, there is a mismatch and, as mentioned before, this is what I believe is causing the problem. The song has 3 beats to a bar but the style that's been chosen has 4 beats to a bar. Trying to force a 4-beat style to function as a 3-beat style does not always work well. I've found that I always get better results by matching style with a song's time signature.

In the modified file that I returned to you, I did exactly this. I matched your 3-beat song with a 3-beat style.

Hope this information helps.

Kind regards,
Noel

P.S. When I get home tonight, I'll have a play around with the audio file and the midi files that were contained in the original zip file and see if that sheds any further light on the situation.

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