Vortex, like many reviews, these show that the reviewers sometimes do not understand the program very well.

I'm not sure about the context of that business of coming up with a different chord. They may be referring to a utility that comes free with BIAB called Audio Chord Wizard. This utility will take a .WAV or .MP3 file and try to guess the chords in it, and create a chord chart for use in BIAB. No one ever claimed a computer can do this perfectly.

I do transcriptions for pay, but I still use the Audio Chord Wizard to get started. If you are doing harmonically complex chords like jazz, it will have a hard time. If it's folk music with, for example, two chords to the measure, it will nail it pretty well. When you purchase the program, you will want to practice using this and other parts of the program, because you can gain skills that will make it work better for you.

If you are NOT talking about the Audio Chord Wizard, but just entering chords into the BIAB program, it accepts a pretty solid range of chord types including many exotic jazz chords. I am a pro jazz player, and I rarely encounter a chord I can't enter. If I do, there is often an alternate spelling.

Does that help?


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