a quote from another post by Shane............

I don't want any 7th's or anything like that in the song. I'm simply trying to form a song with straight A - D - E chords. No matter what style I choose (currently using "Swabbie autoharp folk waltz") BIAB is adding in what sounds like a 7th on some parts especially toward the end of the song and it doesn't work with a song like that. It's like it's forcing a blues feel on the song so to speak?

it appears that the problem happens when Shane changes key from A to B.

Andrew's reply was.............

The reason that this is happening is a combination of these two things (A) Band-in-a-Box generates the file based on the original key of your song. (B) RealTracks artists play what is natural for them to play for a chord in that style of music, so seeing a B chord in the key of A, many RealTracks will play the b7.

Andrew went on to say..........

It would definitely be a desirable feature for it to be able to follow key changes within the song for RT generation. Another useful feature would be an F5 bar setting to treat major/minor as I chord and/or the ability to force the chord to a triad. These features currently aren't present.


I think this is the kind of fix needed to keep BIAB as the go to software for auto accompaniment. Adding extras which seem to break many current functionalities seems counter productive when the basic function can be improved. And its over two weeks since we got the latest patch so fixing bugs is obviously taking a long time due to the added complications of the 'new features'.

Rant over. I still love BIAB and the marvel of RealTracks.