Hi BIABguy.

Thank you for sending me the file. That made tracking down any issues much easier.

I'm not sure that I've solved the problem but there are some things that are worth trying to see if they provide fixes.

ONE
The backing is in 3/4 time whereas the style that has been chosen uses 4/4 Realtracks. (As unusual as this is, I must say, it sounds excellent.)

The 3/4 time signature has been accommodated by setting the "Number of beats" to "3" for every fourth bar. This setting can be seen as the red boxes around the bar numbers on the image below.



When I used F5 to see what 'Bar Settings' contained for a number of these bars with red boxes, they showed the following. (Hence my above statement.)



When one changes the time signature using F5, it's not necessary to modify a number of bars. The new time signature is maintained until F5 is used to change to something different. With this in mind, and since this song is all 3/4, it's only necessary to put "3" beats per bar in bar 1. That will continue throughout the entire song.

To delete all the bar settings, simply press F5 and then press the "Reset All Bars" button shown below. After doing this, simply set bar 1 to "3" beats per bar. It will give the desired result.




TWO
This is worth trying.

1. Save the song with a new name so that the original song file is not overwritten and is always available if needed.

2. Use F5 to enter "Bar Settings" and then "Reset All Bars" so that all the red boxes are removed.

3. Rather than using a 4/4-based style, load in a 3/4-based style. These styles can be found listed under the "Category" column in Stylepicker (see image below). Simply click on "Waltzes" to list all 3/4 styles. BIAB has some great uptempo 3/4 styles.



4. Select an uptempo waltz style, generate the song and see how it goes.


THREE
Regarding this third point, it's necessary to understand how BIAB generates its Realtracks.

When the (re)generate button is pressed, BIAB starts generating the chosen Realtracks. Once a few bars have been generated, the backing then starts to play and the remainder of the song is generated as a background process.

Because of the tempo of your song (200 BPM), its possible that BIAB catches up to where Realtracks are being generated before they are completed. This would certainly cause what sounds like dropouts. (It would be more likely to occur on older computers but could occur on more recent computers too.)

To test this theory, selet "Opt | Preferences | Realtracks" and then disable the "Speed up generation" option shown below. By disabling this (removing the check mark), the entire generation process will be completed before the song starts playing. (It could take 30 - 60+ seconds. Simply wait until the generation is done.)



Hope one of these thoughts helps.

Regards,
Noel

P.S. Please let me know how it goes.

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