Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
Nope. You are misrepresenting what I requested Charlie! Changing something does not eliminate it even when you struggle with the meaning of words to try and make it so! And all those "gutted" features would work just fine like they already do every time I change the number of choruses to 1! My request would just hide this legacy wart and make using the program easier for users new and old!


No I didn't misrepresent what you said John, I quoted you. Lol, of course I didn't mean that the ability to use the 3 in the chorus selection window would be removed or taken away. I meant that BIAB would not respond to the default 1 setting to any selections commands and options that are placed in many of the BIAB tools and menus that are pre-programed to respond to multiple chorus's of which there are many more than just the repeats that are removed when you reset the chorus value at the beginning of a project.

To demonstrate what I mean in less than a minute, please try this example:

Open a New Project
Load _HARBOUR.STY
Start 1-end 8 Choruses-3
Tempo 135
Feel ev8 time sig 4/4 Key C

Enter the following 8 Chords:
C | Bb | C | Dm
Am | G | F | Bb

Place Blue Type A Part Markers at Bars 1a and 9a if they're not there by default

Use the Generate and Play Button to render and hear this 0.49 second song.
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Listen closely to the Second "Middle Chorus" which will be Bars 9-16 in comparison to the First (1-9) and Third (17-24) Choruses. There should be a noticeable change in the drum pattern and a return in the Third Chorus to the original drum pattern.

After hearing the song play through using the default 3 Chorus method, do the following:

Edit\Song Form\Unfold (Convert to 1 BIG Chorus)

This will unfold the 8 bar 3 chorus song into a 1 Chorus 24 bar song that's still 0.49 in length.
Don't make any changes to the Chord Sheet. There will be additional Blue Part A Markers after every 8 bars.

Use the Generate and Play Button to render and hear this 0.49 second song.
(NOTE: If you don't regenerate the song, BIAB does not recognize the change from 3 Choruses to 1 Chorus and will replay the previous song from the 3 chorus render and you won't hear the song the same as you normally would when you change the 3 chorus default to 1 before generating the song in the unfolded selection. )

Listen closely to what was the "Middle Chorus" which are now bars 9-16 in comparison to what was previously the First and Third Choruses. There's no change in the drum pattern in bars 9-16. The A Part Marker plays through for the whole song or single chorus.

The difference in the "Middle Chorus" is a pre-programmed result of the BIAB software that is 'eliminated' by changing the Chorus selection to 1 from the default 3 and regenerating to invoke the change.

So, in reality, all those "gutted" features don't work just fine like they already do every time you begin a song project by changing the number of choruses to 1. They are just features that by always changing every song you start to 1, you've never used them.

This is my last word on the subject because you've not established you're speaking for the majority of users and besides, everyone has the option already for any number of Choruses between 1-40 and there's dozens of selections, options and features that depend on the multiple chorus concept.

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