Hi rharv,

Thanks very much for your prompt reply. I had looked at the meter screen you show above but didn't see how that would indicate beats per bar (and sorry, I still don't quite see it). In the small meter event window should the Numerator be set at 16 (rather than 15 as shown in your example and the Denominator at 8 to give two beats ? .....and do you then have to reset the next following bar...(to what?) Could you perhaps a little more fully for me please. As a relative newbie it would be much appreciated.

I had to finish the song I was working on in BIAB instead of RB as I did find how to reduce 4/4 bars to 2 beats in BB. I'm hoping to be able to load this track into RB and continue working on it there as I like the methods of enhancing and overdubbing the track better in RB.

Having spent around thirty years making manually created backing tracks (programming drums, playing live bass, rhythm, acoustic & lead guitars, pedal steel, banjo, some keyboard strings, piano etc.) I suddenly saw a way of creating basic tracks in a fraction of the time and loved the RealBand way of working. Quite a few of the tracks I've done over the years had the occasional 2 beat bars and I found it easy to program the drums for the odd 2/4 bar. I can't understand how a program as sophisticated in other ways doesn't have an obvious button (like the bar settings button in BIAB) to be able to quickly create this without having to work around it. Unless I'm seriously overlooking something simple maybe it should be suggested in the RB wishlist?

Regards

Kevin.

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