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Hi, just purchased BIAB Pro 2025 for Mac, after using a 2007 Windows version for years.
I have just created three songs, and they all play perfectly as expected. Have entered Chord progression, Style, Tempo, then notation for Melody. All good.
When I try and add note-based lyrics, it all goes wrong here. If I add lyrics to one song and save it, the other songs' lyrics are contaminated by the last lyrics saved.
Anyone else had this issue?
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.... If I add lyrics to one song and save it, the other songs' lyrics are contaminated by the last lyrics saved.
Anyone else had this issue? Are you running multiple instances of BIAB? Do you save one song and then open a previous song that had quality lyrics and they are now corrupted?. Please give us more detail on the steps to reproduce.
BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.
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I'm having similar problems: BiaB Mac 2025, I’m moving along successfully entering lyrics in the notation window. Often when editing either notes or lyrics to fit syllables to music, things go awry. It seems to happen from either the Edit Note dialogue; or the Lyric entry boxes; or the Edit Lyric List dialogue. Suddenly lyrics will be moved to very odd places; several measures from where I’m currently working.
One suggestion - that apparently hasn't worked - was to delete the problem lyrics if I had copied/pasted one set of measures into another. I tried that to no avail.
Thanks for any thoughts
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Please give us a step by step description of the process. Only if one of us can duplicate your conditions can we see what is happening.
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Hi Mike,
I spent over 5 weeks liaising with PG Music via their chat and via email, giving as much detail as I could about my issue with BIAB 2025 PRO. I was told it would all be passed on to the developers. My 2025 version was replaced by the 2024 version but I still had the same issues.
Here is my step by step description of the process:
Step 1: I open up the program and click on New Song. I enter in the Chords manually into the blank chord sheet.
Step 2: I make sure I choose a style I like. I adjust the tempo, key, etc.
Step 3: I play this to hear how it sounds. I t works perfectly to this point.
Step 4: I click on the Editable Notation button and enter the melody manually. This all works perfectly as well.
Step 5: I give the song its Title and then click Save to save the song in BIAB. All is still perfectly fine.
Step 6: I then click on the "L" , the Note Lyrics Edit button, and enter in the lyrics to each of the notes in the song. This all works perfectly well. I save as I go. When I replay it, everything works as it should. The lyrics match the notes of the song as it plays.
Step 7: I repeat these 6 steps with a new song. It all works perfectly as it should. I am able to move from one song to the other without a problem.
Step 8: I now enter a third new song, and all is fine, until I start moving from one song to the next. This is where I start to find the lyrics are very unstable. Sometimes they are in the right song but totally in the wrong place. Or I'll get the wrong lyrics withe the wrong song when I click on it. Or I'll get a mixture of songs lyrics across the three songs.
Step 9: Here I erase all the lyrics of the songs and enter them again. Same issue everytime I do. Same corruption of the lyrics across the songs.
Everything else works perfectly; the song plays in the right key, the right style, the right notation is there, but the single note lyrics is all over the place.
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