Originally Posted By: massichat
Originally Posted By: MarioD
massichat, if I read you right you want to audition a single track while listening to the rest of the style. You can not do that in BiaB. You have to stop BiaB, right click on the instrument you want to either change and/or change the style, pick your instrument and style, press OK and listen to see if it is what you want.

If I read you right put this on the wish list and I'm sure many will +1 it.


That's exactly what I want to do, and it's very handy in a hardware arranger and in a live performance to quickly customize an arrangement without breaking your ideas. Thank you for confirming my doubts: We can't do that at the moment.
I'm going to put this on the wish list
Thank you all


I'm not sure what I'm missing here. When you say; <<< to audition a single track while listening to the rest of the style. >>>; "audition a single track" to me means to solo the track without pausing playback of the other instruments. On a mixer there's a button for that called 'PFL' and selecting the PFL button solo's the desired track and sends the signal to the headphones jack without affecting the Front of House or monitor mixes. This allows the engineer to monitor one or more channels without affecting any other mixes. Since there's only a single Mix from the BIAB mixer, to solo or mute a channel will affect the single mix and that's not suitable in a live venue situation and would require multiple outputs like a physical mixer.

You can "audition a single track" from the Mixer on the Main Screen by selecting the Solo button of any track. Hold the 'Shift' Key to select multiple tracks.
The result is you hear (audition) the solo'd track by itself with all other non-solo'd tracks still playing but muted.

Deselect Solo or multiple Solo's and you hear all of the tracks playing simultaneously together and you are now auditioning any track you wish "while listening to the rest of the style."

From the Mixer on the Main Screen, you do not have to stop playback to select and replace a patch. With the Style playing, Right Click on the desired Mixer Channel and from the drop down menu, select 'Select Midi Instrument (Patch)' and select another patch. You can also select a Hi-Q patch or a Super Midi Patch as well as a Real Track. There will be a pause and/or stutters as the new selection generates but after a few seconds, the desired instrument change occurs.

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You can also "audition a single track", select mute, solo and replace instruments from the Styles Screen. All the features listed above are also functional and available from the little box with the three dots I posted above. Note that this box only works for playing a Style using the 'Play over current chord sheet of song ' play selection. You can audition every instrument of every style without leaving the Styles Window. You do not have to stop playback to select and invoke the changes.

Using these features are not suitable for live venues, they are certainly functional in the studio environment regardless if BIAB is being used for practice, making accompaniment backing tracks, composition or arranging.

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