Boots,

I wonder if you might be aligning BIAB's bar 1 with Reaper's bar 1 and that you have Reaper set so that bar 1 is the very first bar. (This probably sounds confusing. Please keep reading and hopefully, clarity will be added.)

Since BIAB, has a 2-bar intro (these are it's default settings, at least), I have Reaper set so that "bar 1" is actually the third bar of Reaper.

To do this, enter into Project Settings and set Reaper's first bar to "-1" (see #3 on the graphic below).

Once this is done, bars -1 and 0 can act as BIAB's 2-bar lead-in and bar 1 in BIAB and bar 1 in Reaper still align with one another.

Hope this helps,
Noel

P.S. Don't forget to set BIAB's Audio Export settings to include the 2-bar lead-in and the Drum count-in. These settings are found under the Audio menu.... "Audio | Export song as Audio File"

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