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how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? #833449 12/12/24 01:04 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late Planobilly OP Veteran
OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late	I thought you could put a lower case o but that does not seem to work in my Band-in-a-Box® for Windows Version 2022 (927) 64 bit application “Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833457 12/12/24 01:21 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Rustyspoon# Veteran Joined: Mar 2018 Posts: 7,248	Billy, With Midi you obviously can, I believe what PGM calls Playable real tracks you sort of can: With real tracks it's tricky. If (and that's a big if) musicians recorded higher or lower ranges you don't have a way to manually select it. You have to do whole bunch of partial regenerations just to find out. You can support my related request here: https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=824008&Searchpage=1&Main=106957&Words=octave&Search=true#Post824008 Last edited by Rustyspoon#; 12/12/24 01:22 PM.

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833459 12/12/24 01:29 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late	Thanks, I am trying to learn how to do more things in BB. In the past I would normally just do this in my DAW. Real Tracks has many limitations that can be overcome by a lot of tedious work in a DAW. Billy “Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833462 12/12/24 01:36 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Rustyspoon# Veteran Joined: Mar 2018 Posts: 7,248	Billy, Partial regeneration in Track view using Ctrl-F8 is your friend. I've made couple of videos, but forgot where they are. I will try to do a short one for you later today. M.

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833463 12/12/24 01:38 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late	can you select a single cell? “Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833470 12/12/24 02:07 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,564 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	Originally Posted by Planobilly can you select a single cell? Interesting question. I never tried, because it's likely the voice leading wouldn't work well. It certainly would not if you were searching for octave jumps. In addition to RustySpoon's ideas, I suppose you could painstakingly alter the audio with Melodyne Editor in a DAW. Maybe someone has even tried this recently using the VST3 support in BIAB. BIAB 2026 Win Audiophile. Software: Fender Studio One 8, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Fender Quantom HD8 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833476 12/12/24 02:38 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late	I have altered real tracks in my DAW in the past. I don't remember the results. I think I came to the conclusion that I could create a BIAB song but I could not create one of my songs in BIAB. Some things could done using midi tracks but not real tracks. Analog can be converted to midi but not without a bunch of issues to solve. I really mean can I regenerate a single cell? I assume yes without having tried. Billy “Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833478 12/12/24 02:40 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Noel96 Veteran Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 20,571 Australia	Originally Posted by Planobilly can you select a single cell? Yes it can be done. By a "single cell," do you mean (a) the full bar or (b) half the bar (if you consider a bar is made up of two cells). For (a), the full bar can be selected on the chord sheet and generated. For (b) half a bar can be selected and generated in Audio Edit. (See the image below.) 1) Select the track to be edited (#3 on the image). 2) Activate "Snap" (#2) 3) Drag across the region in which you want to do a partial regeneration (#3). 4) Select "Edit" (#4) and click on "Generate" (#5). 5) Click on "Select and generate Realtracks" (#6) and then select the appropriate Realtrack. I've found that the best results are usually obtained by generating a whole bar, or two or three of bars. CTRL+Z undoes any changes so if you don't like a generation, a simple 'undo' will take you back to what you had. MY SONGS... Audiophile BIAB 2026 audios on Soundcloud

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833480 12/12/24 02:58 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late	Thanks Noel Between you and Misha, hope I spelled his name right, and Matt I get it done. Regenerating things has never had much appeal to me to begin with. Sometimes things get better but it rarely does what I am looking for. Sometimes I can put a slash chord in and get results. What generally happens is I play a chord progression out on my piano and put those chords in BB. Most of the time they are in the root inversion. First and second inversion at other times. I have been away from all this for a while and I am now playing catch-up. Billy “Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833482 12/12/24 03:04 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Rustyspoon# Veteran Joined: Mar 2018 Posts: 7,248	Billy, 2022 version is a bit different. You need to spend a few pesos to get yourself to 2025. Check the video out: Last edited by Rustyspoon#; 12/12/24 03:05 PM.

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833491 12/12/24 03:16 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late	Yes, that does not surprise me. I have upgraded several things in the last couple of days. I just was able to use slash chords and get things to sound better. Also, turn on the mixer and mute all but one track to sort things out. I have come from a live background where all I have to do is tell the bass player for example please play the fifth on the 23 measure...lol All this electronic music creation has come at a time when I am older and takes longer to learn new things plus the issues with memory cause more problems. Just stuff one has to deal with as they get older. No big deal. Billy “Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”

Re: how to drop a chord one octive in chord view? Planobilly #833605 12/13/24 01:05 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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