Well, I think Jim is referring to what I mentioned, and he is right. Some years ago we requested to have the tracks use the name of the patch selected, rather than be locked into the single-letter scheme BIAB uses where it has B for Bass, P for Piano, D for Drums etc. It's arguably better because now you can have a soprano sax on the Strings track etc. But even that is confusing as implemented, because there are two S entries (Strings and Soloist, or Soprano and Soloist etc.). In some ways it got worse, because only part of the new scheme to use the first name of the patch was implemented. You still have to use the old defaults in rests, shots and holds. And now, for example, if all your patches started with S, you could get mighty confused. Try explaining all this to a new user (I have). I repeat this background info because it occurred before you joined the forum.

So I'm quite sure Jim knows all this, and is agreeing with the concept that the naming needs another convention. He and I may just not be sure yet what the solution is. In general, I work on identifying the problem but, as a programmer and system analyst, I let the developers consider the best implementation because only they know the big picture.

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