Well it's intriguing, I'll give it that.

I started over from the mxl import. Correcting the anacrucis seems easier in piano-roll, though it's still unfamiliar ... more to learn.

I tried copying the four bars for the tag into a area well up the song ... 129 (hopefully it'll be safe there). But after setting multiple choruses, I failed to find how to access it again to copy back (thinks .. unfold and extend should allow that, though whether it will then work as I would hope I know not).

So I tried another approach ... having checked that the melody was where I expected, in the chord view I highlighted the four bars and did a Ctrl-X cut. I assumed that cut chords and melody ... but maybe not.

I now manipulated the song, generated multiple choruses and then Ctrl-V pasted the four bars into place for the tag. Open song settings, set up the tag and did OK.

The chords view look sensible. Open the notation view at the tab and the notes are still wrong. I'm guessing cut and paste in the chords view doesn't copy the melody. Trying a second paste into the piano-roll did nothing, but maybe that's because I don't know what I'm doing in it.

Using copy from...to fails the same way. tag notes are still wrong.

Using copy from...to to get the tag after the ending, then deleting the tag from its old place seems to work OK, the tag melody is intact. So now I used the piano-roll to Ctrl-X cut the melody whilst I again manipulated the choruses. After the manipulations I again used the piano-roll to paste back the notes. At this point, things seem OK. But if I move the jump-after bar number four bars earlier, the tag gets moved to four bars later and plays too late. Restoring the jump-to bar number restored the proper behaviour.

Changing the jump-to bar number, then pasting the melody again into the correct bars and deleting the later copy from the later bars got the song back to as it should be.

I can now adjust the number of choruses, at least between 2 and five, an the song structure stays correct.

I had doubts about what would happen if I reduced the number of choruses to one as BIAB declines to allow a tag with a single chorus. Out of curiosity I tried it. The chords view looked OK with the tag after the ending and greyed out. OK, tht seems kind-of appropriate. The shock came when I played the song. The first thing I noticed was a piano 'thump' on the first beat of the count-in, then the melody started with the third and fourth bars of the tag, then no more melody! From then on the song is hosed. Undoing regeneration achieved nothing, undoing change number of choruses achieved nothing. Obviously reducing the number of choruses to one is a bad idea!

That's enough messing around for one evening.
I think I'll now go and lie down in a darkened room.





Last edited by Gordon Scott; 05/20/23 10:54 AM.
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11
BIAB2025 Audiophile, a bunch of other software.
Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts
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