Okay, full disclosure -- the version of BiaB I'm working on at the moment is 2017. I have 2019 in another computer, which is suffering from audio problems, so I'm being forced to use my laptop with 2017, but which doesn't have enough room for the 2019 installation. I have run into this same problem with v2019, however.

It is fairly often when I choose to replace a Realtrack instrument that comes with one of the many Styles BiaB offers. But I have noticed that, in some instances, BiaB will not allow a Realtrack to be selected, usually defaulting to another that is at least somewhat close in style.

I find this infuriating. Especially when I'm trying to get rid of a track that BiaB insists on defaulting to. At first I thought the desired Realtrack might be one that is being shown, but which I don't actually have installed. Nope, that isn't it. I definitely have the set it comes from. I have also suspected that this inability to get the Realtrack I want is tied into the tempo. And I find this to be at least partially true. Even though it shouldn't be, in my case. The track I was interested in specifically was 2189, which has a recommended tempo of 85 bpm. The tune I want to use it with has a tempo of 110, so I was thinking maybe that's why BiaB wouldn't load it. But then when I read a description of 2189, it sez its recommended tempo range is from 70-120. So, that apparently isn't why it wasn't being loaded. But I decided to play my hunch, and reduced the tempo of the song to 85 bpm, and guess what. It loaded. So huh. And then I increased the song's tempo back up to 110. Nothing catastrophic happened. The piano is playing along happily at 110 bpm.

Okay, this is just one example of many I've had where I've had to put up with this. I guess what I'd like to know is, is there any way to turn off BiaB's desire to control things like Realtrack selection? If I can consistently fool it by reducing (or increasing?) a tune's tempo, then I reckon that's what I'll do, as long as other factors aren't involved.

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Michael

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