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Choose number of bars (change later if u want) type chords make it 1 repeat and un-check loop box beside the song title box. It will stop at the end . Is that what you needed ?



That is part of it Tommy, but it goes a little deeper. When using the solo generator, you get prompted for melody, chorus, how many choruses... well, okay, my logic says to me "If I am programming from head to toe as one composition and have in no way designated to BIAB what is an intro, what is verse 1, what is bridge 1, what is chorus 1, what is half verse 2, what is bridge 2, what is chorus 2, what is solo, what is chorus 3 - they are all just measures".... how does BIAB know that? So often when I try to create a solo, using "custom" option I tell it where the solo starts, how many bars, uncheck "delete previous solo", and uncheck "okay to solo for one extra bar", yet the solo continues through the whole remainder of the piece and I have to be sitting there to mute it when it is supposed to finish. Then you get into "real tracks".... Real tracks? They are ALL "real". None of them are imagined....

The last song I worked on yesterday was a great example. I went in and set up the solo. Not only did BIAB play a solo where I told it not to, it randomly changed the instrument I had selected to be the solo instrument. Somehow I ended up with a banjo when I selected a distorted guitar.

I understand completely that the people who have been using this for a decade know this stuff in their sleep, and everyone here who belongs to that fraternity has been VERY helpful from day 1! I can't even start to tell you how much I appreciated all the direction and guidance I have gotten. I am just looking for some simplification on some of the terms that have become part of normal BIAB conversation. As I put in a previous post, a "shot", a "push"? I am 100% sure I know what they are trying to say after years of studying music in high school and then college, but I don't grasp what the TERM means as it is used here. Push seems to be more accurately defined as "PULL" as I see it, since you are "pulling" a note ahead of a beat, what I always called "an anticipated beat". And there is the rub. That may not even be what "push" means.

Look in the eyes of people who do not know computers when you try to explain that the hard drive is NOT the memory. The typical novice user thinks that because the hard drive "remembers" things, that the hard drive is the memory in their computer. I can't tell you how many calls I get because "my memory is all used up". I can tell you it is so many that I don't even bother trying to explain hard drive storage vs RAM memory any more. I know what they MEAN even though we don't communicate the term correctly. And that was the gist of the "simple mode" request. The old KISS method. Your post cleared up how to set up the skeleton of the song. I would like to be able to tell BIAB NO repeats. I don't want anything repeated. If the song runs through measure 1-36 4 times, I program the measures 4 times. That's the computer geek (anal?) side of my brain working. Logical, ordinal, place for everything - everything in it's place mentality.

Someone said they are going to buy me the now famous t-shirt that reads "I have CDO. It's the same as OCD but the letters are in order - like they are supposed to be."

I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.

1. How much did you make in 2023?
2. Send it to us.