Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
Originally Posted By: Tobias
...... The tracks are very easily and quickly edited to be fixed up. One of the most frustrating things about them are the re-strike of every instrument at each new chord. Sometimes I'd like the bass, synth or strings, for example, to hold through a few guitar and piano chord changes. Only way I know how to do this is create a chord window with the chord changes, save it, convert the guitar and piano to audio, import it to the audio track. Then re-create that same chord window with piano and guitar muted and held chords where I want them for bass, synth, string. Then I import both chord grids or portions of them into RealBand and go from there.


I was thinking that you could do holds already in BB by simply typing the command into the bar.

A. is a rest on the A chord
A.. is an A chord shot
A... is an A chord hold

You can also do this

A.bd rest on all instruments except bass and drums

A...p held A chord for all instruments except the piano

A...bp held A chord for all instruments except the piano and the bass


Use these commands and avoid all that running around. I'm not sure how they work across multiple bars.... but give it a try and see how it works.


Yes, I use those very rests, holds, shots, pushes, etc... all the time. What I did not explain well enough is this; Sometimes I'd like the bass, synth or strings, for example, to hold, say, a B chord from bar 1 beat 1 to end of bar 2 beat 4 but have the guitar and piano play a B chord on bar 1 beats 1,2,3,4 and an E chord on bar 2 while the strings or synth continue hold the B without striking a new chord at the beginning of bar 2. I might not want to here the bass strike a B note at beginning of bar 2 as the other instruments change chords. Just hold the B from bar 1 all the way to the end of bar 2 (or whenever it might naturally fall off) while guitar and piano change chords. All in the same chord sheet window. This is one of the characteristics that make BIAB sound like BIAB. Once you put in a new chord for one instrument it cancels the previous chord for all instruments.
Do you know a way to stop it from doing that? Or a way to create my desired behavior in a single BIAB chord sheet?

Last edited by Tobias; 10/13/16 05:06 PM.
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