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Have resurrected my 2012 version after 12 years of illness. Can not change the melody instrument to keep the change. tried rt click on bar, tried the top bar. Cant make it stick. Please be patent am 83 :-)
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try using F5. You can change almost everything by bar
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Try this:
Select the correct bar, and press Function Key <F5>.
It will bring up a menu and allow you to change the instrument patch for each track. Note that you cannot change from MIDI to RealTracks this way, and must keep the same track type, but you can change the instrument.
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Thank you. I have done that. I've put the patch num in, but then when I try to play the tune it just sails past that bar still using the same instrument that it started with.
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Thank you. I have done that. I've put the patch num in, but then when I try to play the tune it just sails past that bar still using the same instrument that it started with.
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Thanks for the welcome back. I've had the program for years but not had a chance to get into it. Nursed my wife with quadriplegic motor neurone disease for 8 years followed by a future 3 years of my own illness. Now all I want is to be able to change melody/solo instrument within a tune and have it remember the change. I can do it by saving as a midi file and transferring to a sequencer type program with event edit; but i want BIAB to be able to do it. Thank you for your help.
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Clive, if you had frozen the tracks previously then the change won't work unless you unfreeze the track before making the change with the <F5> function.
Please tell us the complete sequence of steps you are using, what you are attempting to change to, etc. Advising every little step can really help to track down where things might be going awry.
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I am wondering if 2012 had the 'F5' or freezing. Can't remember that far back. Do you need to regenerate (or the 2012 equivalent) to make it work?
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I'm pretty sure that the ability to freeze tracks was available in the 2012 version.
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I'm pretty sure that the ability to freeze tracks was available in the 2012 version. I think so, too.
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Hi, Yes I can freeze but they are not frozen. I've managed to make 2 short screen videos showing exactly what. I can put the links to my dropbox in now but perhaps its safer to send the links by email. First one shows me loading it in (including the preferences) and then plays it wih no 12 (vibes) on ch 4. Then I highlight bar 3 and hit F5. In that panel I then change ch4 to 20 (church organ) hit return when the panel closes .... (is there no way to put higher patches in at this point ?? ). Tune plays again put patch does not change to 20 like it should. The midi settings show ch4 on 20. This next bit I found by accident. If I now save the song as a standard midi file and then play the BIAB screen again, without changing anything .... then hey presto it plays both instruments at the right time. Clearly I can not be saving a new midi file every time I make a small change. All very strange. My 83 yr old hair is already falling out so I can well do without this. :-)
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Clive, you may need to regenerate after making the <F5> patch change. It was not clear if you were doing this. Can you try?
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Thank you for your time. I can now do 4changes of instrument within 8 bars but I have to save as midi each time. I let it save to clipboard and carry on. It remembers each time. I think I will upgrade from build 52 to 62 if I can. It has a full event editor, which would make things simpler in quite a few ways. Thank you to all who have been helping ... sadly none of them worked. I can now do what I wanted by this devious method but an upgrade to an event editor would be a better solution. Thak you once again and best wishes.
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