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Hello,

I'm finding that each digital music or midi production software imports midi in its own different way. Band-in-a-Box is perhaps no exception. I entered a piano score into a digital notation editor called NoteWorthy and saved as a midi (both O and 1), but BIIB's notation, puts the bulk of bass notes into the treble (G) staff instead of below, in the bass (F) staff where they belong.

Not sure why this is happening, but if BIAB could allow for importation of digital notation it would solve a lot of problems for me and perhaps others.

Also, having a lot of trouble entering notation. I don't see anything in the manual that shows me how to enter, for example, grace notes or how to place two notes within a bar without having rests appear (then not being able to delete the rests). Hate to say this because BIAB is otherwise such a wonderful software.

So it would be great if BIAB would allow importation of digital score and revamp its notation entry system. I think the numerical one is great for people who are used to that, but it would be much better if we could also enter every event (notes of every value, dotted notes, rests, grace notes, for example) from a menu.

Thanks, As Always,

Jon

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1. Set the key to the right one before you import.

2. On the left of the screen is a 'notation options.' Split staves is there.

3. There are video tutorials and note entry is covered there. For simple work, a melody and chords this is the easiest method to do things.

If you are looking for a particular song type in band in a box and the filename in google.

I have close to 10,000 song listings (duplicates for sure) but I only entered about 20 of them myself. I did purchase quite a few fakebooks from Notes Norton in band in a box format over the years and with a digital keyboard and the software can thus play in any key and style I like. I think classic rock and roll was the latest one I got from him and Amazon (digital download) next day for the fakebook.


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Thanks, John!

Worked like a charm. Really appreciate it. While I have you is there any setting or Realtrack that can make it sound less midi-like. It's little stiff. You probably know what I mean, and "Bright" Piano, like in other applications, is rather dull.

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Notes Norton BIIB Products. Now that's interesting. Took me a moment to figure that out, but googled it and saw. Now wondering about the midi stiffness and hoping BIIB can put a few wrinkes in that piano ballad.

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Hi Jon,

Entering notation in BIAB can be very confusing at the start because it is very different from other programs. Once you learn how it works, though, BIAB's entry method is the quickest I've come across.

If you go to the below link and scroll down to the video archives, there's a link to a wmv file on notation entry. This is well worth watching.

http://www.pgmusic.com/videos.bbwin.htm

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Noel


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Thanks, Noel! Will watch that, sure!

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