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MultiStyles/Part Markers work as an arrangement layer over the Chord Chart. It is a destructive layer because changing a style or in older than 2021 versions, changing a Part Marker initiates a regeneration of the current Chord Chart and Styles. 2021 has been enhanced to change Part Markers for visual prompts only so there can be Part Markers without applying changes to the Chord Chart.

Part Markers alone provide a visual prompt to section changes in the song form, intro's, ending's, verse, chorus, bridge, interludes, drum fills and style variations.

MultiStyles apply more visual prompts to section changes in the song form but also can change the song tempo, key, instrumentation choices, feel and dramatically add complexity, dynamics and interest to your song. Styles can be designed to make only subtle changes to the arrangement like the PG Music tutorial song did, or be a lot more drastic. These are creative choices for the artist to make.

Every style in a MultiStyle is comprised of two sub-sections and there can be up to 24 additional Part Markers providing a lot of drum variations. A MultiStyle song can have as little as two separate styles or as many as 24, and each of them will have two sub-styles. That's a lot of dynamic variety very quickly, intuitive and it's very stable.

Whenever it's feasible, it's better to use MultiStyles and Part Markers than to accomplish the same equivalent results using bar settings to mute and return to normal to create trade off's between instruments. this is because of the way BIAB selects and assimilates audio for the Chord Chart. BIAB uses Part Markers to construct arrangements and it reads these arrangement instructions prior to selecting audio the same as it does in choosing different audio for additional chords rather than the same audio for the same chord each time. This means fades, transitions, intro bars and ending bars are treated by BIAB the same as Chord changes, rests, shots and holds.




Last edited by Charlie Fogle; 01/03/21 06:52 AM.
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