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According to PG people, BIAB styles can be set in a folder called STYLES. That's what I did. But, in this case, when you create an hybrid style, you can't select a style via stylepicker. BIAB says ' ***.STY does not exit.Cannot use'. In this case, you to manually browser in all your styles, and it's very tiedous. The proposal is to include this option (all styles in STYLES folder) in Preferences. In this case, BIAB will know, for hybrid stylemaker, to fetch the requested styles in STYLES folder.
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Use the User Styles to put them into the User Styles folder, that's what it was put there for.
Although it would be nice if we were able to organize styles in any fashion we want, that User Styles in the Stylepicker was what we got in response to this wishlist item. Still, it is a lot easier than what we had to do before its inception, which involved a rather tedious editing of a txt file...
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Mac,
I don't speak about user styles. I just want to make a hybrid style using PG styles, not user styles. These PG styles are in STYLES folder. In the other hand, I don't use Stylepicker editor, because all my own styles are sorted in my own categories, along with all the PG styles. (bbw.lst manually edited). So when I need a style, for ex. a country ballad, I can see all the country ballads styles I have, no need to go into another categorie, etc...
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Which version of BIAB are you using. The new version picks up new (even non-BIAB styles) when you rebuild the list. Did you rebuild your list? (I think you'll need BIAB2008 or higher for this to work). It will put styles that aren't already found in the BBW.LST file or any of the *.LS3 files you may have into a category called "Other Styles".
Also, the "Styles" folder must be located in the BIAB main folder (e.g., C:\BIAB\Styles). It can't be just anywhere on your hard drive. For a style to appear in the styles list, it must be located either in the main BIAB folder (C:\BIAB) and/or the Styles sub-folder (C:\BIAB\Styles).
Also, even though it won't show up in the Styles picklist, just so you know, when you load a BIAB song, it first looks for the style in the same folder as the song. So, if you have a song-specific style you are using, if you have the style file it is using in the same folder as the song, BIAB will find it (if the style isn't there, then it looks in the main BIAB folder and then it looks in the Styles sub-folder.
Hope that made sense.
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jford,
I use BIAB 2008.5 Build263. The problem is not this one you invoked. I get all my styles in the stylepicker and that 's OK. The question is about making hybrid styles. It seems that, since we can now put all our styles (PG styles +user styles) in one folder called 'STYLES' in C:\Program files\BB for ex., when you are looking for styles in Hybrid styles window, you can't acces them because, by default the styles are considered to be in BB folder and not in STYLES folder. Hope it's clearer.
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Quote:
The question is about making hybrid styles. It seems that, since we can now put all our styles (PG styles +user styles) in one folder called 'STYLES' in C:\Program files\BB for ex., when you are looking for styles in Hybrid styles window, you can't acces them because, by default the styles are considered to be in BB folder and not in STYLES folder.
Suggestion:
Use the stylemaker itself to hybridize a style. You will then have standard windows dialogs for "open" and "save as" - ie. can navigate to folder of choice. AND, as a bonus, you have more powerful features than with "make a hybrid style." cf. Stylemaker=> ALT-F3, because you'll be able to move any instrument into any any other (overwrite or add).
HTH, Ron
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