<< I still wish that they would go back to the days where you could sample your chords over the style that you are auditioning without loading it onto your project, potentially messing up your project. That was a pretty good feature, I felt.>>

I wonder if you and others are aware of how the upgraded system works, or at least how I've learned to use it? It seems designed to not mess up a project. It's fast because of the algorithm upgrades made around 2022, It accounts for the undo feature request with a better method than the normal undo feature most folks are accustomed to. In the upgraded StyleMaker, BIAB can be set to automatically track and save your searches and save your searches in a small text file that can matched with each project as a set. So, in your folder, just as audio files can be saved with projects, StyleMaker searches can too. Favorite Styles can be marked and included in this saved file as well.

With this system, you simply open the associated text file along with re-opening the project and you have instant access to the associated search and favorites. Multiple Search/Favorite sets can be made and organized to user's convenience and workflow. A search/favorite set tracks 250 recently accessed/ auditioned Styles and 75 Favorites. If a search exceeds these limits, simply name and save the set and open a new one, and continue your work. So, even if you were to search 1,000 Styles, saved into five sets, the user can still have instant access to the original Style if they desire simply by marking it as a Favorite at the beginning of the project.

I recall in the older version, BIAB still loaded the Style to audition over user input chords. It was done in the background and it always began at the beginning of the song and was limited to a preset of four bars unless edited by the user. Now, the entire chord chart is available to be auditioned and the user can move to any location on the chord chart even if the song format is multiple choruses.

I've attached a screenshot of the Recently Used/Favorites Dialog Window

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