Originally Posted By: AlastairLC
Has anyone figured out a way to handle the time signature changes in Weber's “Memory”? It starts in 12/8 and there are good BIAB styles for that. Then it changes for one bar to 10/8. BIAB bar settings won’t let you change the number of beats in a bar to 10 (4 is max), and changing the style to the only 10/8 style available isn’t a smooth transition.


Alistair,

I'm not sure how much music theory you understand so I apologise if what I type below sounds patronising.

Firstly, by way of background...

12/8 is actually a 4-beat, compound time signature. The difference between 4/4 and 12/8 is that the 4 beats in 4/4 are based on quarter notes (what we call crotchets here in Australia) while in 12/8, the 4-beats are based on dotted quarter notes. When looking at these beats a little closer, it can be seen that a quarter note can be subdivided into two eighth notes. A dotted quarter note, though, can be subdivided into three eighth notes (see image below).



How BIAB handles 12/8...

If you load in a 12/8 style and then have a look at Notation View as the song plays, the time signature will most often be 4/4 and it's very easy to see the bar of four beats being played.

Given the above, setting BIAB for a 9/8 or a 6/8 bar in a 12/8 song is not difficult because all that one would do is set the number of beats in a bar to 3 (for 9/8) and 2 (for 6/8). A bar of 10/8, however is harder to a accomplish. I'm not quite sure how to do that so that the Realtracks will play correctly.

If you have BIAB for Windows, what I suggest you do is to load the song into Realband. One of Realband's big strengths is that all time signatures are possible.

Regards,
Noel

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