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Yeah...why can't I just feed my extended-chord jazz real book chords into the software and end up with all those Miles and Dizzy extensions transferred to good ol' BIAB, and have them reproduced as "the correct background chords"??



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Because that's not what Biab is. Biab is designed to do it "it's way", not your way. When you enter the chords, Biab will use voicings that it thinks should be correct according to the style you picked. And then it's deliberately designed to change it slightly every time you hit play because a real band won't play a tune the exact same way every time either especially if it's a jazz tune. Hence the name "Band in a Box". That's why it was a big deal to be able to freeze tracks if you want certain parts to not change. If you want exact voicings you have to create a style that uses those voicings. I learned that years ago when I wanted to do Impressions using the original McCoy Tyner "So What" chords. No matter what I did or what style I picked, Biab never came up with those voicings. I could program the rhythm with no problem but Biab did the voicings according to the style and then with the different variations sometimes it would be fairly close and other times it wouldn't. It would require a separate "McCoy Tyner Impressions" style that I never bothered trying to create.

Bob

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