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There appears to be a bug if you try to change instruments, by clicking on the "instrument description" in the mixer.

A dialog box will pop up with instrument selections possibilities, but it doesn't move the highlight to the track was clicked on...

Instead it changes the instrument on the track that had been previously highlighted.

This has happened to me MANY times and it appears to be a constant, not an intermittent. Thanks!

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Hi Thunderthud, thanks for bringing this to our attention! We will report this to our developers.


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There appears to be a bug if you try to change instruments, by clicking on the "instrument description" in the mixer.

A dialog box will pop up with instrument selections possibilities, but it doesn't move the highlight to the track was clicked on...

Instead it changes the instrument on the track that had been previously highlighted.

This has happened to me MANY times and it appears to be a constant, not an intermittent. Thanks!

Hi Thunderthud. Could you provide the steps you use to locate the "instrument description" item in the Mixer?

Is that different to double-clicking on the Track Name to change the name of the Track?

Also, could you advise which track you unsuccessfully changed, and does the same apply for all tracks, or only some tracks?


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Hi Thunderthud

I can confirm that the same thing is happening here

In the mixer panel when you chose another instrument it just jumps back to the previous instrument on starting the song

An excellent spot

Thank you - I thought it was just something wrong with my song files

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Thanks! Unfortunately, I usually get responses like the one above yours. Frustrating sometimes.

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Hi all
Strangely enough, all is working fine in this case for me.
But I must say that we are 3mths into this version and many of the old backbone well established function in Midi and the mixer seem to have had a lot of problems this year. Odd really, as midi so I always. thought the whole program has had had stable midi functions, since it's inception.
So come on chaps never mind all this fancy new stuff, gives as back our stable midi that many of us rely on!!

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Just tested on V829 and all was fine. Double clicked on patch name in mixer and "switched midi instrument patch" across several of the tracks in succession and all results were as expected.

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Thanks! Unfortunately, I usually get responses like the one above yours. Frustrating sometimes.


Don't blame the guys trying to help. As we are seeing here, this reported problem can not be immediately verified by others users. When the "developers" look at this and find it works, your problem will fall into a black hole. More times than not, the real problem is solved/identified by a steady back and forth communication here in the forum with other users. That is all BIAB 101. So play the game nice!


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Sorry for venting. I think BIAB is an incredible program. There have been some missteps in the launch of BIAB 2021, that have found somewhat frustrating. This one in particular was not one of the major ones, but I'm very appreciative that they have addressed the issue.

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I also cannot duplicate this issue, and like MusicStudent I'm on the latest unreleased build 829 though I also tested on the public build 827 and it worked fine there too.

Thunderthud, do you have display scaling enabled in Windows, or do you happen to have a 4k monitor?


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Interestingly I’m working on a different problem reported to me privately where monitor resolution and Windows sizing (I use 110%) may be an issue.


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Yes, I do have a 4k monitor... But...

I don't believe it's a resolution issue. I have a feeling that I didn't portray what is happening, clearly.

I have a screen capture at the below link...

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The area that I have drawn an oval around in the mixer is the area that I've been referring to.

If you single left click on the area, the Instrument Selection box will pop up. But, it doesn't change the track highlight (in this instance the Guitar 1 track will remain highlighted).

And if you select a new instrument using the pop up dialog box... Guitar 1's instrument will change. Not the Guitar 2 track that you clicked on.


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We have been notified that this difference in highlighting is intentional. The developers found that some people liked being able to see a specific track in the notation view, such as the drums while simultaneously adjusting or adding an instrument to another track, such as the Bass track.

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Thanks for the response however, it can (and has) caused me to make changes on the wrong track.

When I click on a track and a dialog box pops up, allowing an instrument to be changed, I would expect it to change on the track that I clicked on.

I guess that doesn't sound reasonable to the parties that made that decision.

Oh, well... I guess I'm just being unreasonable...

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