I am relatively new to BIAB and have the 2021 version without frills.
I have successfully laid down two songs up to now of which I am quite pleased with.
However, my problem seems to be the lead-in marker volume too quiet. I have set in Options/Preferences/Count-in/Met the Audible Lead-in volume to 127 but it doesn't seem to make any difference to it's volume. The music play-back sound is perfect with plenty of volume, but not the lead-in.
Congratulations on finishing two songs. You're off to a great start!
I assume by lead-in you are referring to to two bar count-in prior to the start of the music.
Two count-ins maybe used in a song, a MIDI count-in with MIDI drums and a RealDrum count-in that is part of the RealDrums audio recording.
If you are using a RealDrums count-in the audio mixer has no effect on the two bar count-in. One option is to locate the count-in audio in the RealDrums file and edit the audio by boosting the volume. The only way I would do that is by copying the file, giving the copy the original file name and editing the copy. I don't want you to accidentally mess up or lose and original RealDrums file.
Conversely you can contact PG Music support, ask them to check out the count-in volume and wait for the edited file to be included in a future update.
If using MIDI drums, try Ctrl+E (Preferences) > Count-In/Met > Audible Lead-In volume
This is a newly loaded file, untouched with a song style loaded. All the controls are default. It looks like I have RealDrums selected. I have tried turning RealDrums off and the lead-in is now a lot louder and acceptable. Thanks for that. I now need to see if I can get the RealDrums lead-in volume to to match it. Thanks for that
This is a newly loaded file, untouched with a song style loaded. All the controls are default. It looks like I have RealDrums selected. I have tried turning RealDrums off and the lead-in is now a lot louder and acceptable. Thanks for that. I now need to see if I can get the RealDrums lead-in volume to to match it. Thanks for that
1-Click on edit 2-click on options 3-click on preferences 4-click on count-in/met In the lead-in drop down menu count-in is the MIDI while all of the others are RD count-ins.
Note that if your RD has a line under it, that means it has been transcribed into MIDI, AND you save your song as a MIDI song then the RD count-ins will be MIDI, just like the rest of the drum track.
I hope this helps.
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I "think" that I understand what you are saying. Although I do not have a reference to "realDrums" in the Count-in/Met menu panel. I do have a black menu bar along the top of the screen which shows "Drums" in green with a line underneath though. Is that the same thing?
In the count-in/met drop down window count-in is MIDI and all the rest are RealDrums.
"I do have a black menu bar along the top of the screen which shows "Drums" in green with a line underneath". That means there is both a RealDrum audio and a RealDrum MIDI. If you just save the song you will have a RealDrum Track. BUT IF you save the song as a MIDI song you will get a MIDI drum track.
Does this help?
Me, it's not about how many times you fail, it's about how many times you get back up. Cop, that's not how field sobriety tests work.
64 bit Win 10 Pro, the latest BiaB/RB, Roland Octa-Capture audio interface, a ton of software/hardware
MarioD: Yes, that helps and gets me a little farther with my understansing.
GuitarHacker: Yes, I could probably handle it in one of my DAW's okay. I just wanted to achieve it in BIAB.
Just for update info: I have been in touch with PG Support (on the Live Chat) about the problem, and they have looked into it and see the lack of control over the volume of the lead-in as a system shortcoming. They have registered it with their design team and it should be rectified in the next update release.
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