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Okay, so here's one: 1. Downloaded Sultans of Swing from Amazon and had the Audio Chord Wizard turn it into chords for me. It made a decent stab at it, but got a lot of things wrong, D vs. Dm, too many 7s and sus's that kind of thing, but it's hard and I don't take that as a bug. 2. So I sent it back to biab and it got the key wrong, it thought it was in F and most of you know it's in Dm. Okay, not a problem, there are F chords in there after all. 3. Spent a lot of time getting all the chords right, but eventually things are okay. I then tried using the song form to put in ABCBCCCCD, and that worked okay, but it did nothing visible. When I tried to use it to auto-generate repeats it said it couldn't do it, so I put all the repeats in by hand. 4. Had a glitch when trying to put it back into ACW and when I sent it back to biab a second time, it wiped out all the chords, changed the first chord and the key to F and that was that. But now I can't reproduce that one, so okay. 5. Now I tried to enter the lyrics in Notation mode. First off, why so large and why only two bars at a time even when I change the font smaller? Anyway, I use line mode next since I don't have a melody line. 6. Second, if I do anything other than type text, the cursor goes back to the start of the line. Click on the notation line for example, then click back where you left off typing, and what you type starts at the start of the line. I think you can fix it by clicking twice on the spot you want to start typing again, but it is a bit cumbersome. 7. Next if you are done typing for the current two bars you can't go to the next two bars using the arrow keys. You first have to ckick on the staff area and then hit right-arrow. Then you have to click on the text bar again. I can't say I had a good time doing this but eventually I got lyrics entered all the way to bar 128. 8. Here's where it gets unhappy. I tried entering text for bar 129 or 130, and the other bar next to it, and then went to the next couple of bars only to find the same text I just typed already there! In fact the same text was now copied to the rest of the song, from bar 130 to the end (bar 213 or so). I never managed to put the rest of the lyrics in.
Enough for now, does any of that sound familiar? Don't get me wrong, it makes very nice accompaniment, using the Real Tracks country style with pedal steel right now, but I thought things should be a little essier than what I encountered so far... and I just got started...:-)
Anyway, thanks for any thoughts...
Willy.
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