Originally Posted By: Milky
What am I doing wrong? I want a nice, clean "sheet music" looking notation, where the notes aren't all jumbled on top of each other and it is clear what each note is. This is so hard to input notes.

"Jumbled" means they are out of order. But they aren't "jumbled", they are just closely spaced, so they are overlapping.

Unlike many notation programs, BiaB has a fixed bar size, so it won't get wider to accommodate more notes in a bar.

Instead, reduce the number of of bars/screen, so the bars are wider and there's more room for notes.

Press the "Opt" button in the notation and choose a smaller number for Bars/Screen.

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When I try to put a note below middle C on the treble clef, it won't make the note. I have to put it at middle C, then "edit note" and move it down to the note I want. This is tedious. Is there a way to make it so I can input lower notes?

BiaB arbitrarily chooses Middle C as the "split point". If you click on the bass clef, you can enter notes at Middle C and below.

If you want the split point to be a different note, choose Opt, and put a different value Clefs split at under Transpose Options.

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In a lot of cases, when I switch the note, it only offers me a flat option (not sharp). So I select Bb and it puts the B note with the flat marker. Is it not possible to instead make it an A with a sharp symbol? I tried the "force accidental" option, but it didn't do anything.

BiaB follows the key signature set in your song. Make sure the Key has been set properly on the main screen.

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When using the scroll bar at the bottom to scroll through measures, it always goes ahead 4 measures. What if I want to see measure 4 and 5 next to each other? I haven't found a way to advance just to the next measure and see the previous 3 still on the page.

Go to the Opt button above the notation, and change the Scroll Ahead value.

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When importing a musicxml, it loses all the repeats. Is there a way to import the whole notation? It would be so much easier to be able to input this stuff in MuseScore then just import it.

I don't know, but based on your experience, I'd say no. frown

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When I try to add a repeat to a section, it makes a copy of the section in gray, then it plays the repeated part and the gray part at the same time. Not sure if I'm explaining this one right. How can I make it so it just has the 2 dots for the repeat, and just plays that section twice without adding the gray section?

I don't see what you're describing, but I'm going to make a guess.

The "gray section" indicates the section is past the end of the song.

On the main screen, the Start and End are displayed. Click End either type in the correct bar number where the song ends (excluding the tag) or click the cell the bar is in. It looks like a modal dialog where you can't do that, but you can interact with the song sheet behind the popup dialog.

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Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?