I'm trying to set up a jazz tune which changes styles from Swing to Latin in the middle of the tune. The first thing I notice is that the Latin style is much louder than the Swing style. So I go into the Bar Settings and lower the volume of that style by a number. After trying out how that sounds I find that I haven't lowered the number enough. Back the Bar Settings. Ok, eventually I find the right amount. I play the song but now I notice that when the style changes back to Swing the volume of the Swing style has been lowered by the same amount as the Latin style. Ok, back to the Bar Settings. After a while of trying things out I seem to have found the right volume for all styles concerned (in the meantime 20 minutes have passed) but now BiaB starts reacting funny. In the second bar of the tune the drums lay out for one bar and I have no idea why this is happening. I am not really happy about this. Am I maybe doing something wrong? Or is the program not up to that task?

Hi Rainer,

It would help a great deal if you could make your song file available so that I can have a look at it and identify what might be happening.

One way you could do this is to upload the file to Dropbox and then copy and paste the Dropbox link into a post in this thread.

Something else you might like to try is that BIAB does have a couple of Latin/Swing styles.

These are...

_BOS2SWG.STY

_BOS2SWV.STY

I'm not sure if the Realtracks that support these styles come in all of the BIAB packages but if you have the UltraPak, you should have them. These might be worth trying.

In relation to what you describe as a drum lay out, I'm not quite sure what you mean. I'm guessing that it's what I refer to as a drum break. If this is the case, these will happen immediately before a blue or green partmarker (i.e. the bar number will be in either a blue or green box). To remove a partmarker, click on it and it will change from blue to green to gone.

Regards,
Noel

Hi Noel,
thanks for your response. The song in question is "Bolivia" by Cedar Walton and the file link is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0btb6eg1p6lv1o8/Bolivia.SGU?dl=0

What I meant by "the drums lay out" is that the drums were not playing at all for one bar. This has happened to me occasionally on other tunes as well. This seems to be a real bug because when I played the song again everything was fine.

Now I am having another issue with this song. I want the style change to happen only in the first chorus for which there is a setting. But BiaB simply doesn't accept my input. As soon as I leave the Bar Setting window it goes back to all chorusses.

I will try your suggestion with the mentioned styles shortly. Thanks again.

Best,
Rainer