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Yesterday I discovered the Guitar fretboard window, and I hadn't seen it before. I know. Obvious right.

I literally didn't realize I had a great tool to show me the chord shapes that I could be playing along with a track.

Now you go. List an obvious feature that some of us, or you, didn't discover, even in a year of using the program!


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It seems a lot of folks don't use MutiStyles very much. There are two types, one to create a custom style for any project and the other a song specific style. A project can have as many as 24 substyles that can be used on any bar and repeated as many times as desired. This is a very powerful arrangement tool allowing both style replacements and Track instruments to be silenced or replaced. .

BIAB has two medley maker features. Song Medley Maker and RealTrack Medley Maker. I don't recall any discussion that goes beyond mentioning one or the other or see these features being used in the User Showcase.

The Song Medley Maker can combine multiple SGU files or portions of SGU files merged into a single SGU.

The RealTrack Medley Maker has multiple functions/features and it a very powerful arrangement tool. It allows multiple RealTracks to be on a single Mixer Channel that can be configured to alternate in many different variations sequentially or to play simultaneously with panning and volume automation. Each of the 24 Mixer Channels can have the original RealTrack and up to 10 additional tracks. This provides the opportunity to create very complex arrangements that are similar to either bus tracks in a DAW or bounced tracks in digital multitrack standalone recorders. It effectively overcomes the 24 track limitation and can produce a mix of dozens of instruments in BIAB without having to use a DAW to add more instruments.


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The Song Memo button. It opens a two panel dialog window.

The left panel automatically lists major song project information such as key signature, tempo, song length in minutes and seconds, what style is loaded, the number of bars and choruses, what custom changes are made in bar settings for each bar and what instruments are on what tracks for example.

The right panel is user editable. In the example below I included information from the selected style description memo that lists the differences between each of the four (A, B, C & D part markers) sub styles in the loaded multi style.

Song Memo is a great way to keep track of everything a user does to make a song project special.

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