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I am never surprised at what I don't know about Band-in-a-Box, but this year I am making an effort to tackle some of the issues that have always puzzled me.
Question 1:
When you select a midi style (I guess also RealStyles) how do you know from the list of instruments shown for the style, which one goes on which part - bass, piano, drums, guitar, strings?
For instance, in the style "BRIT8SLO.STY. Brit 60's Med-Slow St.8", All MIDI. Quintet, it lists the following instruments:
M1 Standard Drum Kit, [RD Sub: ROCKEVEN8 :Craig Scott]
M29: Muted Electric Guit
M1: Acoustic Piano
M26: Acoustic Guitar
M31: Distorted Rock Guit
The reason I have to know this is that the way I have my program set up, it is liable to select any instrument for any part, instead of the ones listed above. Now you might say it should be obviouis, but there are three guitars listed here.
Question 2:
Is there some way to ensure that the instruments as shown are automatically selected to the proper parts? I can never get this to happen. This might be some kind of setting of which I am unaware because I can't believe it would not be the way the program is intended to function.
Grah Jive Talk
"Don't worry baby, they'll swing their arses off."
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When you select a midi style (I guess also RealStyles) how do you know from the list of instruments shown for the style, which one goes on which part - bass, piano, drums, guitar, strings?
The same exact thing was bothering me yesterday. You can see the correlation by ticking the part in the chord sheet - the associated midi patch and RT, if there is one, are shown just below - but there's no way to switch between parts when the stylepicker is open. (I think programmers would call it a modal window.)
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Is there some way to ensure that the instruments as shown are automatically selected to the proper parts?
Not that I can see. They'd have to be assigned manually if you want a different allocation than is defined inside the style. I'm afraid the "part" names are one of those conceits from early BB versions, where they conveyed more meaning than they do nowadays with all the newfangled styles and RTs. The part names are, after all, just designations for (assignable) midi channels.
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Hi Graham,
not sure I quite understand, but, BIAB sends out a program & bank change to your sound source, be it a hardware synth or a soft synth. Therefore the sounds should automatically change, unless your soundsource for whatever reason doesn't accept bank & program changes.
If not , you'd have to manually change them, in which case you need to know which midi channels are being used for which part.
ie if you go to Options, choose Preferences, Channels, you'll see the midi channels for,
Bass, Piano, Drums etc . Take a note of the settings ie channel & instrument type. You'll have to match the sound you want on your synth to the instrument type.
Probably PG tries to put strings, under strings setting & piano under piano setting, but in cases where they use other types of instruments, in the styles ( ie especially in the Classical styles ) they have to put flutes, or french horns etc under Guitar, or Piano etc
Same thing if they happen to have 3 guitars in a style. There's only one Guitar slot, so the other 2 would have to go under strings or piano or maybe even bass.
best wishes
rikki
BIAB 2020
Yamaha sx900
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