Hi Michael,

BIAB does not offer and easy way around voicing chords.

With MIDI, it's possible to manually alter chords on any track using Piano Roll or Notation Mode and then to have those changes remain in place by freezing that track.

With Realtracks, however, the only way that I can think of to effect such a change is to create a Performance Wav for a particular track and then edit that wav in a pitch-shifting program such as Melodyne. (Performance Wav is a rendered audio file that linked to a particular track.)

From BIAB's perspective, X2 and Xadd9 are treated the same. This means that D2 will sometimes give Dsus2 (D E A) and sometimes Dadd9 (D F# A E).

If a user is using a mix of Realtracks and MIDI tracks, one solution for suspended seconds is to add the suspension in the MIDI voices by manually editing and freezing the tracks and with the Realtracks to use X5 chords (e.g. D5). The X5 chords are often called 'power chords' and they consist of only the root and the 5th (thus D5 = D A -- no F#) and thus will play comfortably against the MIDI chords with suspensions.

Regards,
Noel

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