The goal of band in a box has always been since over 25 years ago when I started using it is to teach musicians how to better play music of any size. Any decent semi-pro or professional musician will tell you while they spend hours practicing, the most common way to learn a larger work of music is to break it down the smaller sections and at slower tempos. While looping a section/passage for drilling there needs to be a Count-In feature that "Counts-In" 1x per/loop.

This is crucial for 2 MAIN Reasons:
1. When you highlight the BARS/CHORDS to Practice, then press F10 Shortcut Key to begin Loop there is NO TIME to get your instrument/mind situated before beginning to play

2. In similar fashion as above when you are drilling passage into the ground and need a break in between each loop for you to recompose yourself before attempting to repeat the selected loop/passage.

This is another reason for a Count-In feature while looping. All you musicians and BIAB lovers out there... Your support is vital to the successful implementation of this feature. Please and Thank You!!

I can see how having a count-in before the first bar of a loop, even if the loop itself is one bar, would be beneficial in certain circumstances.

So +1 (I support) with the limitation that the user should be able to enable or disable the count-in feature.

I think that has been requested many times.
Is this what you want to do in Biab ?
Watch: BiabVST-Loop-Count-In.mp4

Good point. I remember asking for this type of count in about 8 years ago.

Another +1

Thanks VT you are correct and I found my post in your thread with the 38,000 views, I forgot I made this:
Count-In based on actual time-signature of first bar
This can be modified easily with an F10 button under the Start button to count-in and play the selected loop section:

Watch: BB-AHK-Count-In.mp4

+1 for this.

Here's an updated tool to include Loop Start
Remove .mp4 and unzip
Download > Biab Count-In with Loop Start.zip.mp4

Watch: BB-AHK-Count-In & Start Loop.mp4

If you are running Biab As Administrator:
To run script only .ahk install https://www.autohotkey.com/ and set AutoHotKey.exe to Run As Administrator
To run .exe set to Run As Administrator

This uses the system audio for the count-in beeps so if Biab is set to use the same Audio Device, un-check the Always On in Device Driver.

Hello
I've just joined the forums. I recently upgraded to BIAB 2020 for Win10.
This loop count-in sounds like just what I want but I can't figure it out. I can download it and get WinRAR to open it but it's still an .mp4 video file which VLC player tries unsuccessfully to play.
How do I add it to BIAB?
Thanks - sorry if I'm being dumb.

"Remove .mp4 and unzip"
Windows might scan it first then it will open.

Hello
many thanks for the download link and information.

A "Count-In while Looping" function as described in the beginning/start of this thread would be very nice to have. Would be very useful when practising.

Got it now and pinned to taskbar. Excellent.
Thankyou very much.

Still waiting for the loop count-in feature in BIAB!

> Still waiting for the loop count-in feature in BIAB!

Thanks for the reminder. And has been added to the list.

Hi Peter,
Strangely enough I'm not able to find this feature in BIAB 2024