Originally Posted By: anojette99

And I still don't know how to make the STACCATO apply only to the bass and not all the instruments when I unmute them. I guess that is my main complaint about Band In A Box. It is so complex. Finding out how to do a specific thing, such as STACCATO on one instrument and not the others, takes so much time, there is little time left to actually make music. [i][/i][u][/u]


Working these past few weeks with the new features in the 2022 release has reinforced my basic understanding of what BIAB actually is for me as a musician: I can make each of the musicians in my 'band' play exactly what notes I want them to play, and do so exactly when and how I want. This software is so feature-rich that today there are multiple techniques I can employ to actually make - any part of - the music.

Wanting to make the bass player play four specific notes in one bar from the Doobie Brothers tune I'm working on, I logged four hours of reading the manual, checking the forums, and trying different things out until I found the best approach for me (Playable Real Tracks and editing the piano roll). Was that too much time? I don't think so, because I learned what to do and the next time I do it it will take seconds instead.

For me, to make an instrument play notes at a bar where the other instruments don't (rests, shots and holds), I look first to the chord settings dialog and the new micro chording features. You'll find documentation about those commas as part of the micro chording features. After that, if I can't make it happen with shots, holds, and rests, plan b in my workflow is to either play it myself (with a midi keyboard), or edit the real track or midi track notes manually.

Hope this helps.

Bruce Hook - Soprano, Alto and Tenor Saxes
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