I make aftermarket 'fake disks's' for BiaB. Each 'disk' can contain up to 1,000 songs.

I do these 'disks' based on off-the-shelf music books, so that the user can open the book, load my file and play along. Copyright restrictions prohibit me from putting melody and lyrics in the BiaB files and still keep the 'disks' affordable so the pair is a good idea.

For the old-fashioned 'head' fake books, there is no problem. But some of the 'real' type fake books have very intricate arrangements where it isn't just repeat the head until done. There are some books I cannot make a 'fake disk' for. Too many songs exceed the 255 measure limit.

I still call them fake disks, even though they are now instant download. When I started selling these they were on 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks. I've been calling them disks so long, I just don't know what else to call them.

But we still dial telephones even though there are no longer dials, and the phones still ring even though there is no bell anymore, so I guess I can still call them disks.

Back on topic. There are pop tunes I've done for my duo, again with elaborate arrangements. Perhaps one verse is longer than the other, there is a DS that doesn't go back to the beginning of a long section in a part that already been repeated, and so on. Since I sequence backing tracks for my duo http://www.s-cats.com and export everything to a sequencer or DAW anyway, I can do the songs in sections and paste them together.

Matt, when you write a style in BiaB, it is 120ppq unless you use one of my expanded styles. You can import it into a 960 or greater DAW/Sequencer, but the style itself is still 120ppq. I find the minimum resolution for a moderately slow tempo song to be 240ppq.

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