Thank you, Peter! I'll look forward to the fix. (Mac, I did have that selected; I wouldn't know any other way to make the program automatically pause when I hit "Play." Very handy feature.)

While I have Pete's attention (I hope I still do), can we PLEASE get a fix for the crash cymbal and louder-than-usual bass drum sounds on beat 1 of measure 1 of some songs? It only happens with certain styles, it seems, and only when using RealDrums (does not happen with MIDI drums). It happens even though the "First Bar of first chorus of song gets a drum cymbal crash" on Arrangement Options is NOT selected. This initial crash and bass drum are pretty loud and disruptive in my praise and worship setting; it is quite noticeable and just shouldn't be there. I discovered that this "clunk" as others have called it is not as loud if I use a lead-in bar, so I do (but I'd rather not). It's as if the beginng volume levels don't get turned down until playback actually begins.

Styles I hear it with include SARAH1, C_SWEET, and the worst one is JOHNBAL. I use this style a lot (along with hybrid modifications of it, and they do it, too). Also happens on FOREVER, SUMRMOOD, WORSHIP, -PBAL_60, PW_AVA PW_AVA, and probably others.

I thought it might be related to the RealDrum set that I use with these styles (NashvilleEven8^1), but I tested one of my songs by changing the style to Country Even 8 and it still did it. I experienced this problem with all builds of 2008 and now with 2009 (277 and 282). Others have reported and experienced this problem, too, and I have had a couple of dialogs with PG staff who have not been able to get this resolved, it seems.

When you test for this, if your sound system isn't cranked up loud, it won't seem that noticeable. My computer is hooked up to a Bose PAS System and cranked up pretty loud, and it is VERY noticeable. Most of my slow, ballad-style worship songs begin with levels set low and I boost them up at various points throughout the song (thanks for adding that capability, by the way). I've been asking for this problem to be fixed ever since I installed the 2008 version, that's when I started noticing it (maybe that's when I started using RealDrums) . PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE fix this. I love this program and use it in our church every week, playing guitar and singing along with my BIAB. But this bug is so aggravating.

Jim
Psalm 33:3 Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

BIAB 2018 build 519; Dell Inspiron N4110, Windows 10 64 bit, Intel Core i3-2350m running at 2.29 GHz, Memory: 6 GB DDR3, SDRAM 1MHz