Hi Noel.

Thanks a lot for your reply, even though it is quite disappointing.

I would like using BIAB not only as a tool for practicing, abut also for printing the lead sheets we use when playing with the band. That is why it is not a good idea to stitch the song together by copying the bars of the parts. IMHO it would be a nice feature (and rather easy to do) to allow the users to define such a "virtual copying" that is only active in playback mode (just raving...):

The editor for this could be just a single small window doing something like this:
(a) Define the parts to be a sequence of ascending bars:
part pn = bar no. b1 ... b2.
Up to -say- 10 parts can be defined. (Best the parts should be named "A", "B", "C", if not a user editable name (such as "Intro", "Verse", "Chorus", "Bridge", "Outtro", ...) can be implemented.)
(b) Define the song structure to be a sequence of theses parts. (Sequence length up to to -say- 20 parts.)

No change in the normal editing is necessary. (OK displaying the part names wherever appropriate would be nice but not essential.)

When playing, the effect of parts would be a "virtual copying". Maybe an additional "Play using parts" mode (that might disable any editing while playing) would be appropriate or more easy to implement instead of always playing in "part mode". In fact a (temporary) file could be written that just contains the bars stitched together as the part list requests. (This is how I manually do this right now "the hard way".)

When printing a sheet with parts defined, it would be important to print the part names showing where a part starts and where it ends. Additionally, the defined part sequence would be printed below the normal score.

I will thoroughly read the tutorial on "repeats", as this of course is what BIAB does provide for the purpose in question, even though (for the kind of music in question) it's a lot more restricted, a lot harder to use and a lot less in-sync with many written style sheets than a simple part list.

-Michael

Last edited by Michael Schnell; 05/07/11 11:18 PM.