Hi JBran.

  • As you would be aware of, Band In A Box uses Realtracks and Realdrums as well as MIDI to create backing accompaniments.
  • Realtracks, Realdrums and SuperMIDITracks are actual live performances of session musicians played across many chords in a number of keys.
  • When BIAB creates an accompaniment from these tracks, the software searches through a recording and extracts those sections that relate to a particular chord on the chord sheet.
  • The software then randomly chooses from these sections copies and pastes chords together to create an accompaniment that matches the chords on the chordsheet.
  • In BIAB, a "style" is literally a collection of instruments that work together to create a particular band sound.
  • To change a style from a BIAB perspective, means to change the instrumental line-up but adding different Realtracks, MIDI tracks or Realdrums.


With the above in mind...

In BIAB, it's not possible to choose a particular section of the raw audio that you would like to use. If there is some aspect of a track generation that you do not like, what you do to change that is use either partial regeneration (regenerate across a range of bars) or complete regeneration of the track. Part markers can also be used to create rhythmic breaks that lead from one section to another. Part markers are the blue and green boxes that highlight bar numbers.

If you go to the link below, PG Music have many videos on various aspects of BIAB. These may help.

https://www.pgmusic.com/videos.bbwin.htm

Regards,
--Noel

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