I hope I'm understanding you correctly. If not let me know.

If you enter only C E G Bb into the patterns of the StyleMaker, the style you create should play correct notes for any song you make with that style. A Cm will substitute an Eb for that E and so on.

There are exceptions to the above.

I never use BiaB for notation, as I think of it as a convenience to the app and I don't consider BiaB a full-fledged notation app.

I have an old copy of Encore that fulfills all the notation I need. When it no longer does, I'll get something more powerful.

If you are using the mouse to enter the notes, you are going to get what you click. In the options you can select triplet pattern or straight, but I can't help you on that, because I despise step entering. IMO the only way to get the style to sound like real musicians are playing instead of a robot, is to play the parts in real time and then import them into BiaB.

I'll open up a MIDI sequencer program (or a DAW) and play a long piece of music, all with C7 notes. Drums first, then bass, then the comp instruments. I'll record parts I want to play for specific chords or specific instances in a piece of music, but always using C-E-G-Bb. Then I'll import the patterns, 2 bar, 1 bar, 2 beat, or 1 beat into the StyleMaker.

I play the drums into the MIDI sequencer in real time first because drummer set the groove and the rest of the band needs to follow the groove that the drummer sets. I add the bass next because the drummer and bass player needs to play 'as one'.

By playing back the drum first and adding the other parts on top of it, it's easy to keep everything in the groove.

Whatever groove you play into the MIDI sequencer will be played by BiaB, whether it's swing, straight or anything else. BiaB will however resolve everything to 120 ppq (parts per quarter note) no matter what you record at in your sequencer. When writing for BiaB I tent to set my sequencer up to 240ppq so that it's an even division. I don't really know if that makes a difference or not.

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