Originally Posted By: jford
This may or may not be your problem, but if your songs are always reverting to 90, another thing to look at is the style file setting. BIAB style files have a setting called "allow volume change", which is confusing because it doesn't allow you (the user) to change the volume, but allows the style to change the volume to that which is defined in the style. Most PGMusic styles do NOT have this enabled, but as I recall there are a few. I've also found most of the styles from Bob Norton have this enabled.

So what happens is if you load a previously saved song where the style has the check box enabled, volumes may revert to the style defined volumes (which by default are set to 90).

I don't know if this is the problem, but there are two places to fix this (and I don't know if this has any effect on RealStyles/RealTracks; I believe it only affects MIDI styles/tracks.

1. Open the style file in StyleMaker by selecting "Edit Current Style in Stylemaker".
2. Select the "Misc" (Miscellaneous Style Settings) button.
3. Uncheck the box "Allow Volume Changes with Style". Resave your style (you can give it a different name, if you wish, or keep the same (however, keep in mind if it is a PGMusic provided style, it potentially could get overwritten in a future update).

If you don't want to go on a style-by-style basis, you can also go to the "Preferences, MIDI Options" and make sure "Style Volume Changes" is set to "No". This will override the setting saved in the style file.

And as has already been mentioned, be sure to save your song using the "Save with Patches and Harmony" save dialog.


This issue comes up a couple of times every year and I have repeatedly asked for the wording of this option in the StyleMaker to be changed. HOWEVER I don't think any PG styles are supplied with this option ticked so it only happens to me with third party styles or if I have somehow modified a PG style and saved it with the tick before I realized what the cause was.

If it is happening for you with virgin PG styles then this is not the explanation.

Tony