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Oh, I understand now. You know, I thought having a key that could hold that much must be huge!! lol

Wow then! If its all contained on the drive then I can just take it to work and when the boss isnt looking, work on my music. ;P





Using it at work may not be a good idea depending on who you work for, I guess. While you don't have to actually install Biab on the system drive, you do have to install a few small things like fonts, the VSC and a few others. An office system may not allow this plus for you to hear anything, you either have to use your desktop speakers or headphones. Either way, everybody around you will know what you're doing.
As a brand new user, in addition to the recommendation to play around with the demo songs, I would start right away creating a new simple tune from scratch like a 12 bar I-IV-V blues just to see how the chord entry works. Also, pay attention to how the chord grid opens up with it's defaults. The first line of icons right above the chord grid you see reading from the left, the style name, the key signature, the tempo then you see three white boxes with numbers in them. The default is 1-32-3. That stands for the chorus starts on bar 1, it goes for 32 bars and it has 3 repeats. For a 12 bar blues, click and change the second box to 12. That's it for now, setting up those 3 boxes gets new users every time. Oh, almost forgot, get used to setting the proper key signature. It defaults to C and while you can create and play a song using any chords you want without changing the key sig, as soon as you want to see the notation, you'll be asking why it's wrong like, your song is in E but the notation has all these flats in it. That's because you didn't set the key sig. If you're schooled in music theory, you'll soon find that Biab follows it pretty well and if you don't know much theory, by working with this program you'll start learning it.
You will have fun with this, I promise!

Bob

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