Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
Originally Posted By: Appoggiatura
My brain hurts…

I have a 4/4 song I imported as a Music XML file with a two beat pick up measure. BiaB rendered it as a 4 beat bar (measure).

I want to change this 1st measure to a two beat 1st measure instead of 4 beats so I used the Bar Settings to make that 1st measure 2 beats and set measure 2 to 4 beats.
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Thanks in advance for any insight or help you can offer!!



This is one highly capable piece of software. As such, it is not something that you can open and suddenly you're doing the advanced stuff. Sure, it gets you into the music and creating new songs really quickly, but the deeper you want to go below the surface, you quickly realize just how much there is to learn.

So my advice is to take the time to learn what it CAN do and then start building on that foundation and learn the unique things you want it to do. Sometimes, yep, it's going to take a bit of out of the box thinking to get things done exactly like you want. But that's what you need to do. Don't throw in the towel before you even get below the surface on this. If you do, that's your loss and you'll likely spend a lot more time looking for the answer elsewhere verses the time it would take you to learn to do what you need to do here with BB.

When you have issues and problems, ask here. THere's a good chance you're not the first to encounter it.

Any way...... hope this helps....


100% plus 1 to what Herb said above... 100%

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