Originally Posted by Noel96
I suspect that .ST2 and .XT2 files in \bb\soloists contain information that drives the chord map for the dicing and splicing of the Realtracks. I'm guessing that PG Music keep this information restricted to protect their product and safeguard their intellectual property.

Peter Gannon is walking towards the wrong direction.

Of all RealTracks, 2/3 of them are chord/rhythm based RTs, of which the chords can be easily detected by a DAW. There is nothing Peter can safeguard here.

About 1/3 of the RTs are melody/solo based, and because of its monophonic nature, a DAW's chord detection feature does not work.

If Peter had known some music theory, he would realize the fact that solo based RTs do not work the same way as the rhythm based RTs.

Rhythm based RTs are easy, they are all "clean cut" by the bar line and beat line. BiaB can generate a perfect rhythm track.

Soloist RTs, on the other hand, will not work this way. If you listen to the wma, Brent Mason is playing cross bar line notes all the time, there is no "clean cut". When BiaB "splice and glue" the solo, it ruins the context, big time. There are also anacrusis notes, lead-in notes, and pick-up notes, in the original recording, being completely mismatched by BiaB's splicing algorithm.

If Peter Gannon really wants to protect his software, shouldn't he be protecting the audio files rather than the chord charts?

By making the chord charts impossible to open and read, Peter is ruining the software's solo quality on the legit user base.

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