Yes, but by setting your choruses to 1, you'll never have the variation that occurs in the second chorus. I've even confirmed that, in a song with two choruses, the second chorus variation doesn't occur. A song needs a minimum of three choruses in order for the second chorus variation to occur. That's because the program is set up to provide the variation in a middle chorus. Inserting different styles and Part B's just skirts around the issue. It may work brilliantly constructing a piece of music this way, but it doesn't change that simple fact.

I have unfolded songs before, but I did so because I had a complex melody that never repeated. Otherwise, I see little point when I can cut and combine stuff in Cakewalk.

Speaking of multiple styles, here's another little trick I do with cakewalk. I will import a tune multiple times into cakewalk, each occurrence set to a different BiaB style. Then I will pick and choose instruments from the various styles and assemble my own style from them. I've been able to pull off some pretty remarkable stuff doing this. I've also been able to grow my number of BiaB instruments from five or six to fifteen, twenty, or more where I'll usually change out the instrumentation patches just so things don't sound monotonous. Not all playing at once, of course, but using them interleaved. Often I will modify the notation so that it all works together. Works very well.

I have yet to compose a piece of music that has more than 200 measures, much less 255. So this isn't something that I'd be worried about just yet.


Last edited by cooltouch; 11/08/20 08:14 AM.
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