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Bill McCloskey

 

Post  Posted 19 Jun 2010 2:27 pm    
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I imported a midi file and BIAB to generate the chords. No problem. I have a nice BIAB file with all the chords. But when I play it back, it only plays the melody and none of the chords. What am I doing wrong.
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Rick Campbell


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Sneedville, TN, USA
Post  Posted 19 Jun 2010 4:06 pm    
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Bill,

If you'll send me the BIAB file, I'll see what's going on. rick@rickcampbellworld.com
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Graham


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Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Post  Posted 20 Jun 2010 4:16 am    
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First thing to check is the Interpret chords from Midi file box that opens when you go to File - Import chords from Midi file.

About 1/2 way down the box, left side, there are 3 radio buttons, one of which says "Open entire midi file to Melody". Make sure THAT radio button is not checked, but the button above it is

If you still have a problem, try checking the first radio button, which will not allow any of the midi channels to go to melody or soloist.
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Leon Carpenter

 

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Missouri, USA
Post  Posted 22 Jun 2010 3:05 pm     Midi Files to BIAB
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I down loaded the free (Anvil Studios) program and it works great. After you have the free program down loaded,select a midi file,send it to Anvil,it will play as it was created. Select views-conductor.In real time you can view the tracks as the song plays. Stop it,edit volumn,pan,delete a track and or click on the inst. and change it if you wish. In a note book-list the insts.in the different tracks name it, save the file to something like BLA BLA-MIDI-1. Keep these in a sperate folder. If you make a mistake, at any tme you can go back and start over-it happens. Now from BIAB, click open,go to the folder containing BLA BLA-MIDI-1,it will be on screen,click file, using the extract MIDI FILE option. Look at what BIAB is showing as melody,solo,chord changing tracks,bass etc. If it is like you have in your notes go for it,if not change it.It will open as a biab file. Slect a style, name it BLA BLA-SGU^1. Save to a special SGU Folder. I keep all my MIDI and SGU and MGU folders on porable hard drive. Edit it befor adding real tracks it saves time. The Anvil Studios program has a lot of features that BIAB doesn't and it is free. This sounds like a hassel,but it only takes about 5 minutes. If it doesn't sound right check your notes and run it thru again. Leon
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