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I posted this a few days ago, but my post was not seen?

So I made it a new topic.

I tried the templates with waltzes in a few tempi, but the user tracks did not work, when I tried them in biab. The user tracks work however with 4/4 as my user tracks for the contest proove.
Any help ?


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Here is the link to my waltz user track.
Maybe some one of the clever people of the forum is able to explain why my waltzes don't work.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yq4h2zqatvolhue/guitar%20Rob%20waltz%20ev%20140.zip


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Rob, I'm thinking off the top of my head so there is a good chance I'm wrong but you haven't got much response so, here goes!

When you make a UserTrack the wav or wma file goes into a folder. In addition to the audio file the folder has to contain a sgu file and a memo.txt file. The SGU file details the identity and location of the audio file chords. The memo.txt file gives a usertrack description to the user. There is a third file that hasn't been mentioned much called options.txt. Options.txt tells BIAB the tempo, feel (even or swing) and time signature (3/4 or 4/4). It may tell BIAB more things but that's what I remember.

I'm guessing you haven't copied an options.txt file into your folder and edited the time signature so whatever defaults exist are in use.


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Hi Jim, thanks. The solution was to delete the wrong
files and biab generated new ones and they worked.


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I found a bug in producing waltzes!
Here is a part of my correspondence with PG music:

Hello Rob,

Thank you for your message. We forwarded your issue and song to our development team and the identified it as a bug. They will need to look into this further and release a program patch update with a fix.


Thank you,
Alyssa
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On 27/03/2014 1:31 AM, Rob de Klerk wrote:

Hi Ken,
I produced a couple working 4/4 user tracks for the contest (see the forum).
I tried the same with waltzes but when I use them , they skip some messures or the timing is strange.
Here is one of my creations https://www.dropbox.com/s/yq4h2zqatvolhue/guitar%20Rob%20waltz%20ev%20140.zip
I hope you can explain what went wrong.
regards Rob


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Thanks for reporting back to the Forum members Rob.

PG Music are usually pretty focused on getting these types of operational issues resolved quickly, so let's hope for a patch in the next available release.

Good detective work on your part too, to identify, and report.

Cheers
Trevor


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Thanks for the post Rob, and the bump Jim. Fixing this has slipped through the cracks, but your explanation above is clear, and we should get it fixed soon.


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Still waiting zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..............


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Originally Posted By: rodipoet
I found a bug in producing waltzes!
Here is a part of my correspondence with PG music:

Hello Rob,

Thank you for your message. We forwarded your issue and song to our development team and the identified it as a bug. They will need to look into this further and release a program patch update with a fix.


Thank you,
Alyssa
PG Music Inc.
Important Reminder: Please include all previous correspondence when replying to this message
On 27/03/2014 1:31 AM, Rob de Klerk wrote:

Hi Ken,
I produced a couple working 4/4 user tracks for the contest (see the forum).
I tried the same with waltzes but when I use them , they skip some messures or the timing is strange.
Here is one of my creations https://www.dropbox.com/s/yq4h2zqatvolhue/guitar%20Rob%20waltz%20ev%20140.zip
I hope you can explain what went wrong.
regards Rob


This is similar to a bug found using the Audio chord Wizard. There is an easy work around for that bug that you may want to try


Open the Audio Editor
Select: Permanently apply Bar 1 offset to track by deleting or inserting silence

Close the Audio Editor

The audio file should play correctly

If that selection is greyed out, you must first select:

Mark this point as Bar 1 of the song...

Selecting that from the menu allows the ability to select the Permanently Apply Bar 1 selection.

This procedure solves the skipping when it has been processed by the Audio Chord Wizard and your issue may be related so it is worth a try.


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