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Post by Bill R. Baker »

I have updated to 2004. I have the melody I want but cannot enable the embellish feature.
The song has five stanzas and I hear the same thing for all five. Help me please!
I have read the book and tried to follow the instructions but obviously I am not in the zone. Thanks.
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Post by Joe Delaronde »

The Embellisher button is located just above the chord window about the center of the screen. If you have not downloaded the upgrade patches it will appear as "EM". If you have upgraded to 2004C (build 74) it will read "Embellisher".

Hope this helps.
There is also "Allow chord embellishment" in the Song Settings. Click the "S" next to the Embellishment button.
Joe

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Post by Joey Ace »

I'm new to BIAB, today. (They just released the Mac OS X version.)

They say all the Windows Styles and Songs will work with it. Can anyone point me to some resources where I can find some for download?

What comes with it seems to be geared toward Jazz and Rock. I'm looking for Country and Western Swing.
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Post by Mark Herrick »

I really don't know much about BIAB but was doing a search the other day and found this site that seems to have a bunch of stuff:
http://www.pgmusic.com/index.html

A friend of mine also told me that to get the most out of BIAB you also need something like the Roland Virtual Sound Canvas software...

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Post by William Peters »

Roland Virtual Sound Canvas comes with BIAB. It is a software program that is a virtual synthesizer.

The sound quality you get is dependent on the quality of your sound card. Biab itself does not create sound, it only creates midi sequences. The SoundBlaster Extigy works well with biab.

Here is a sample song my friend did with biab using an Exigy sound card.
http://georgeday.wgpeters.com/BIAB/Thoughts.mp3 It has 6 string and vocal mixed in with the biab track.

Style disk #26 has a lot of country styles, and is probably the first one you should get. All the style disks come with the mega pack, otherwise you have to buy them separately.

There is a yahoo biab forum that is helpful. You can search yahoo for that.

Bill
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