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At present if e.g. bass is silent and I want it to play from the middle of the next bar, I need to insert a chord in the middle of the next bar and tell it to add bass. It would be great, if I don´t have to insert this chord in the middle of the next bar, I mean if the bass started to play from the middle of the next bar without a (in fact auxiliary) chord inserted. With a chord insertion a phrase is a bit damaged, if normally I would not insert a new chord... Or is there a way how to avoid insertion of an auxiliary chord presently?
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To silence the bass for half a bar, add a dot (which causes a rest) after the chord, then the initial of any parts that you do want: p (piano) g (guitar) d (drums) etc.
For example, if you want piano, drums and bass for the first half of the bar, and only piano for the second half, and the chords are G major seventh and F9, you'd enter GJ (J is the shortcut for major &th) then F9.p
Hope this solves your problem.
Mike Laatz
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I suspect this is what he is doing; the bass has already been silenced by using a dot, but he would like it to start playing again in the middle of the next bar. The only way to do this is to enter a chord without the bass resting. The problem is that that BIAB will only use the shorter style patterns, which can change the phrasing of the piece.
I don't think this can be done (with a style; you could of course enter the bass notes you want played for a couple of beats or bars in the melody or soloist track, however).
I think this would require a modification to how rests, shots and holds work. Maybe what we need (if we really need it) is something like:
F7.pgs6, which would mean rest all instruments except piano, guitar, and strings for 6 beats. So after 6 beats, the drums and bass would automatically come back in. Just a thought, but it would involve recoding how the rest feature works, but if you put the number at the end, it would make parsing easier for backward compatibility.
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