Chatting over in the ToonTrack EZKeys forum this morning and I have learned you can place up to 32 chords in a single measure. That is 1/32nd resolution! Compare that to the chord resolution of BIAB and you see why we have been asking for improvements in this area for a long time. Not complaining just pointing out options for us.

After a little experimenting, there are some limitations, but still an option worth trying when you need those very short stabs or want to play on the off beats.

That's not enough, some will say.

32 chords per bar is certainly impressive, although I'm not sure how often it would be required.

Certainly more than four has to be an improvement, but I'm not sure that this will happen. I'm somehow guessing that the underlying architecture for everything produced to date is based around a resolution of 4 chords per bar. Hopefully, I might be incorrect on this.

I hear ya Dan. I would love to take some of EZ Keys chord progression and insert them into BiaB but I can't. We need at least chord input on an Eight or Sixteenth note in BiaB. If that doesn't happen and other companies keep improving PGMusic could be
left in the dust! YMMV

Is 128 per bar enough ? I can do that in RapidComposer.
In ReaTrak it will generate up chord changes on whatever grid.
You can do it with the Biab Plugin in a DAW.
But yeah, it is really set into everything to have only 4 in a bar.
Someone in the wishlist pointed out:

90's is where the PG mindset has been, there needs to be fresh minds like in the Scaler, RapidComposer, JJazzLab etc.. development forums.

I can give you 8 chord per bar with an EXPANDED style
http://www.nortonmusic.com/expanded.html
and that's OK, but I wish I could give you 16.

Band-in-a-Box is all about backwards compatibility. That's a good thing as nobody gets orphaned. Those songs and styles I've been collecting since the early 1990s still work today.

Before BiaB, I was sequencing on a keyboard with a sequencer, running MIDI out to feed other sound modules. One day the keyboard broke, the newer models from the same manufacturer used a different file system, were not compatible, and I lost 300 songs. So I'm thankful that BiaB still plays my old style and song files.

When I first purchased BiaB it was a DOS program on PCs, it worked on Atari/ST computers, and ran on a Motorola CPU Mac. That's pretty much the stone age of home computers.

So BiaB has it's built-in limitations and it's benefits. Even with those limitations, it's still the best auto-accompaniment software or software/hardware app out here.

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You have to either be really fast to do that or the tempo has to be really slow.