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Hoping this is a simple fix. I'm working on a song, using all real tracks. For sake of clarity, I'm going to use the "Nashville" terminology for the structure (Verse, pre-chorus, chorus, verse, etc.)

This song has a 2 bar intro, followed by a 6 bar verse (tempo is 73, song is in 4/4 time - using the Midlife Folky Ballad style). The 6-bar verse is followed by a 5 bar pre-chorus, with the last bar being a 2/4 bar. The song goes back to 4/4 immediately after the single 2/4 bar. The 2/4 bar occurs at bar #13.

I have set the bar settings in bar 13 to 2/4, and bar 14 back to 4/4. All of the realtrack instruments pick up and play this change correctly EXCEPT the drums, which play through as though it is still a 4/4 bar...thus creating a 2-beat "gap" in the track.

I export my BIAB audio files to mix in Logic, so I could hypothetically fix it with edits there, but I was thinking/hoping there is a fix/solution I'm missing in BIAB. I'm using the '18 version on Mac.
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The first question: What happens when you tale Real Drums out of the equation?

Without knowing that, it's impossible for the rest of us to know if RD is the issue or not.


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I think I stumbled onto the problem and fixed it....completely by accident.

When I encountered the issue I described above, I had only completed the song chord sheet through the intro, verse, chorus and a turnaround going into the 2nd verse. So the complete song chart wasn't there....I hit play to see if it was working, and got the error I described.

On a whim, I went ahead and completed the song chart, thinking that if somebody gave me the solution, I could implement it and the song would be done. After inputing all the changes until the very end, I hit play and bam...fixed.
Played it correctly including the 2/4 bars everywhere they occurred.

So my guess is that the real drums don't "reset", for lack of a better term, until you have an entire song chart laid out.
Certainly not an error or issue, but an interesting quirk to tuck away and keep in mind.

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Bless you, Roger Brown!

Although we had different issues, my time-change problem was solved by reading your post. Thank you so much, my weeks-long search has finally ended. Whew!! Now my only problem in life is avoiding the coronavirus. eek

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