I would love to see BIAB support 8th note resolution (of course, once we get it, folks will be screaming for 16th note resolution, you know for those 8-10 songs in the universe that change chords a 16th note before the next beat). smile

Anyway, and this is in no way meant to diminish Bob Norton's sales (and I have purchased every style he has created), but if you accept the workaround for using two bars to represent one bar (hence 8th note resolution), then it seems to me that it's just math. PGMusic could easily write a conversion utility that takes an existing style and stretches the notes in the MIDI style to double their value, and then sets the default tempo to twice the current value. Run that against all the styles and voila, you have the same concept as Bob created.

Bob's expanded styles are great, and I use them when I need 8th note chord resolution, but there are only a handful of them. I don't understand why all styles (Bob's and PGMusic's both, for example) couldn't be made to be expanded.

Of course, they would have to increase the upper limit of styles in the StylePicker again. smile

You can already expand chord durations (so you can always enter them as they appear on the sheet music or lead sheet), and then expand them. The problem then is how the underlying style plays them. You can't just double the tempo, because all the instrument would then play the riffs twice as fast. But change to the expanded style, and it sounds like it should using 2 bars to represent once bar.

Or am I missing something here?

Of course the problem with using expanded styles is that notation isn't going to look very good, you have to use double tempo (so songs faster than 120 normally are going to be pushing the upper limits of tempo supported by the BIAB when you double it). And I don't know how RealTracks would interact with them.

But is seems to me that all that is needed is a little utility where you can select a style, for example. ZZMEDROK.STY, run it through the converter, and end up with 8ZZMEDRO.STY (for example, where the 8 represents 8th note resolution).

Then once 8th note resolution is implemented natively, I suppose PGMusic could have a button to convert songs using expanded styles to revert to the original style, after which you could delete the "8*" styles, as they would no longer be needed.

Again, am I missing something here?

John

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