I have a few that are 5+ minutes long and they are nowhere close to the limit. I have never ever come close to that limit with any of my songs. Wile I do appreciate the comments and totally agree with removing the 255 bar limit. I find the minimum resolution for a moderately slow tempo song to be 240ppq. You can import it into a 960 or greater DAW/Sequencer, but the style itself is still 120ppq. Matt, when you write a style in BiaB, it is 120ppq unless you use one of my expanded styles. Since I sequence backing tracks for my duo and export everything to a sequencer or DAW anyway, I can do the songs in sections and paste them together. Perhaps one verse is longer than the other, there is a DS that doesn't go back to the beginning of a long section in a part that already been repeated, and so on. There are pop tunes I've done for my duo, again with elaborate arrangements. I've been calling them disks so long, I just don't know what else to call them.īut we still dial telephones even though there are no longer dials, and the phones still ring even though there is no bell anymore, so I guess I can still call them disks.īack on topic. When I started selling these they were on 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks. I still call them fake disks, even though they are now instant download. Too many songs exceed the 255 measure limit. There are some books I cannot make a 'fake disk' for. But some of the 'real' type fake books have very intricate arrangements where it isn't just repeat the head until done. Copyright restrictions prohibit me from putting melody and lyrics in the BiaB files and still keep the 'disks' affordable so the pair is a good idea.įor the old-fashioned 'head' fake books, there is no problem. I do these 'disks' based on off-the-shelf music books, so that the user can open the book, load my file and play along. Each 'disk' can contain up to 1,000 songs. I make aftermarket 'fake disks's' for BiaB. I do often give files to friends who are running older versions than me. Presumably it could be done such that songs with less than 255 bars could still be read by old versions. Old versions are unlikely to be able to retrospectively handle that many bars.Īs I said, it depends how important PG think it is to be able to do this.
This may not be possible if there were more than 255 bars. They seem to be able to "ignore" new features and still play the file. Currently old versions of BIAB seem to be able to cope with files created by newer versions.
The problem would be old versions of BIAB reading a new file with more than 255 bars in it. The problem isn't reading old files with a new version of BIAB. This utility should handle other related issues such as DOS-length filenames. But I would assume there could be a conversion utility that would make the file format readable on a newer BIAB version that did not have the 255 measure limit. Many thousands more exist from PG Music and from the Internet. It is remarkable how many BIAB files I have that date all the way back to the 1990s.
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