Originally Posted By: Noel96

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.


Yeah, that's another way to do it, but it's still a pita.

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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).


Well, I submit then that BiaB is creating this confusion. If BiaB would allow one to spell a Dsus2 chord in the chord edit window (and have the chord spelled properly on the staff) instead of insisting on truncating it to a D2, this could be avoided. And your "Dadd9" -- I tried spelling that in BiaB just now to see what would happen, and guess what? BiaB changed Dadd9 to Dadd2. Okay, so I went ahead and plugged Dadd2 into a couple places to see how it was spelled on the staff. No joy. D2 and Dadd2 are the same spellings. Which annoys me even more. There are two ways to spell a "Dadd9" but no correct ways to spell a Dsus2. If BiaB is going to truncate Dsus2 to D2, then it should jolly well spell it as a Dsus2 on the staff.

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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.


Yeah as a guitarist from way back, I'm familiar with power chords. Same difference in terms of work to get things to work, though. I suppose, once I've edited a portion of a track, I could do copy and paste to complete it. That would minimize the tedium.

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