> Unfortunately, there are not many B & B Styles in 6/8 so they recommend using 4/4 triplet feel. Well... I've tried for 2 days to get a 4/4 triplet feel track to line up with the main beats of a vocal that was recorded in 6/8 at 65BPM. I've checked ChatGPT and been given all these different timings to use but always the 4/4 track plays slower than the original 6/8 in my DAW. I still want to use B & B style so I can add solos etc. but cannot get things to line up. My DAW is Studio One.
Has anyone ever been successful in adding 4/4 tracks to a 6/8 recording? If so, please let me know how to do it.
I have Time Stretch turned off on the tracks in my DAW. I'm recording from B&B at the same bit rate. I'm totally confused.

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I’m assuming that your 6/8 time signature is with a triplet feel, meaning 3 eighth notes per beat, and two of those beats make up the bar.

Almost all 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 songs are like that, and they are called compound time signatures.


The common reason that people “run off the rails” and “get all confused” with time signatures like 12/8, is that they mistakenly set their DAW to treating it as two 8th notes per beat, instead of three. That’s a big mistake. The solution is to realize that it is a compound time signature, and set it correctly to three 8th notes per beat.

For example, a 12/8 song with tempo of 60. This means you count and tap your foot at a tempo of 60, and count three triplets for each beat. And there are 4 beats to tsp in the bar. This is exactly the same as 4/4 tempo 60 with a triplet feel.

If the song was instead 9/8 tempo 60, the same reasoning applies and it’s exactly counted and treated like 3/4 with triplet feel
If the song was instead 6/8 tempo 60, the same reasoning applies and it’s exactly counted and treated like 2/4 with triplet feel.

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REALITY CHECK
If you’re not agreeing with me up to this point, watch a video like this on 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8 (the compound time signatures).

Now: do you agree with me, and this lady in the video that explains 12/8, 9/8 and 6/8. If so, great, we are in the same page.
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Here’s how you use that in biab.
For 12/8. Set the notation time signature to 12/8. This is done by pressing the button that says [4/4] on the toolbar for the notation. Then choose any style you want, sewrch for styles with 12/8 in the text, and a triplet feel.
For 9/8, same as above but set notation to 9/8.
For 6/8, same as above but set notation to 6/8. Note that you will be entering two bars of 6/8 in each BiaB bar, and the notation will show you these two bars. (If you insist on seeing one bar represent each bar of 6/8, set the time signature in BiaB to 2/4. I don’t recommend this, since the resultant arrangement will sound worse).

Entering chords. For 12/8 you can enter 12 chords per bar. By default the chords are entered on the first beat of each group, allowing you 4 chords per bar. But if you want to enter three chords you’d enter them with the multi chords dialog which has 12 rows per bar (when set to triplets).

Last edited by PeterGannon; 05/12/24 08:38 AM.
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