Is there a way to tell which RT's play pushes?

I find some don't at all, others try and fail miserably, occasionally one works.

I have the box checked for pushes but that doesn't help.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks.

I recall there is a setting to ignore pushes in middle choruses. Is that possibly what you are hearing? EDIT: I take that back; I think that might be a Wishlist item.

I have not come across what you are describing, but I only work in jazz and Latin genres. How about giving us some RealTrack numbers so we can reproduce what you are getting?

Also, are you sure you have a full installation? The pushes, shots and holds are separate files. Without them, it might sound like what you hear.

I think the the Pushes just play a hold earlier. So whatever hold the realtrack is set to.
Click on the Soloist Button then follow the pic:

Type "pushes" in the style search box and Biab will list styles that have pushes in them.

Trax

I did not know that. Thank you. It makes sense, but do you have a source for this info?

2bsolo, did you check Options, Preferences, Arrange? Is that the checkbox you referred to, the one that says Allow Any Pushes?

Just > Soloist > Open Soloist Dialog > All RealTracks > Choose track number > Soloist Maker Edit > More > change hold number (remember the original number !)
Now add some pushes and generate.

Change it back to the original hold number !!!

You will see what pushes it's using in the Holds column.

X:\bb\RealTracks\Library\Holds
X:\bb\RealTracks\Direct Input\Library\Holds

2bsolo,

As long as a RealTrack supports holds (most do now), pushes really should work. If you run into a RealTrack that supports holds (there'll be a number in the Holds column) but won't push, feel free to freeze the tracks in the song file and send it to support@pgmusic.com for testing.

Thanks
Kent
PG Music

Yes, that's the box I checked.

Thanks, Trax. That narrows it down.

Pipeline,

I don't understand what Holds have to do with Pushes but I will experiment. Thanks for your help.

2b

Thanks, Kent.

Hi all

I'm quite new to BIAB (Windows) so still learning the ropes, but I'm also having some trouble with pushes/holds.

In some styles, they seem to work pretty much perfectly e.g. I made a backing track for "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" using _JFREDMD.STY and all the pushes for the head sound great.

However, other styles don't seem to work very well - I'm trying to make a backing track for "Sweet Home Chicago" using _SHAKIN.STY. This tune has a push to the dominant chord (B7) at the end of each section, but these pushes sound pretty awful. I've also tried changing each RealTrack to the following:

386: Bass, Electric, Blues chuck
1584: guitar, electric, rhythm texasbluesrockshufflebrent
1591: piano acoustic rhythm texasbluesrockshuffle
RealDrums=BluesRockShuffle^2-a:stare, hihat, b: snare, ride

Unfortunately, these also did not handle the pushes well.


My settings for both tracks (Don't Get Around Much Anymore & Sweet Home Chicago) are the same, so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if the pushes on some styles just aren't that great?

Thanks!

Mike

I was just making a guide up for you to change the hold or hold level,
but I just looked and there's already one in the above posts.