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I'm going to presume that by BIAB 9 you mean BIAB 2009. If that's the case, be careful there, because there is a version from long ago called BIAB v9 and there is now a BIAB 2009.

When you change the key as you did, it does not transpose the chords. That's because it's not changing the key, it is merely changing the key signature. That facility was added to BIAB to allow notation to look correct. You have to enter the correct transposed chords yourself (which shouldn't take you more than a few minutes to do).

That way, when you see the notes in notation view, you don't get all the accidentals because it was showing the notes based on the previous key signature.



Yes thanks jford, BIAB 2009. So if I understand correctly, there is no "transpose from bar x" feature, only a global transpose, and then a key change notation change feature at bar x? Is this true of BIAB 2010 as well?

So to do what I'm trying to do, take 16 bars of complex chords and try transposing them into different increments, it might be best, I guess to do what Mac suggested and paste them into a copy of Real Band, so that I can toggle back and forth copying and pasting to try different key changes?

And I recognise that the best would be to study Bach. But I don't think I read music well enough to profit from that. I am one of those mathematically impaired but musically intuitive people for whom BIAB is swiftly becoming a way of doing things, things I've always felt stopped in.