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I'm using BIAB 2009.5 as a means to practise my blues guitar playing.
The track I'm working with is from RealTracks Demos: "Blues Quintet featuring El. Blues Monday Guitar". However, when BIAB generates a solo I like, I can't find a way to save that exact solo with the file. I use the 'replay' button to keep the same solo, but if I have to shut down BIAB, when I open the song and press play it generates a different solo. The solos are generally all good, but I want to stick with one particular solo in order to learn it from the Guitar Window.
I tried saving as a MIDI file, but that only saved the drum track!
Is it possible to save the solo with the file?
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I don't remember what was available with 2009.5 but you can try assigning the soloist to either the Soloist or Melody track and generating it there.
I guess you know 2012 has the ability to Freeze a track.
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You can do this at least one sure way and maybe two. I'm not sure if 2009.5 has the "freeze tracks" feature or if that came in later. Right click on any instrument and look at the bottom of the window. If it says freeze track then that's all you need to do. If it's not there, then that's one of many good reasons to upgrade.
The other way is to move the solo to the audio track. That won't regenerate. Of course if you're already using the audio track then you really need to upgrade to get the freeze track option.
As to saving as a MIDI file, you're missing the fact that Real Tracks are not midi, they're audio. Any time you use RT's as individual instruments there's no midi to create a midi file from. If you were using a Real Drum part (that's audio too) then you wouldn't even have drums in your midi file. That audio track I mentioned earlier is not one of the regular instrument tracks, it's a separate audio track that you can record your own instrument or vocal to and keep it along with the rest of the Biab song.
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I don't think saving the audio is the issue. Seems like being able to follow along with the Guitar Window is what (s)he wants.
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Yes, it's the ability to keep the Guitar display showing the same riffs that I was after.
There is no freeze in my older version. Just an option 'Save RealTrack as WAV'.
If I could read music, I would output the song as audio, print the sheet music and follow that. I realise that the riffs are basically from a selection that are repeated in different regenerations, but it gets confusing trying to learn them when they change order, if you know what I mean.
Thanks for the MIDI info. I should have known that.
I wonder if I save the track as a WAV, if there is a way to import that exact wav into the track, and if that's possible, would it still show the guitar fretting on the fretboard?
Thanks for the replies.
Erotemata is a 'him', BTW. I should sign off as:
Malcolm :-)
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I wonder if I save the track as a WAV, if there is a way to import that exact wav into the track, and if that's possible, would it still show the guitar fretting on the fretboard?
No unless the track was Frozen when exporting - which, I believe, was not available in 2009.
Not all RTs have notation. If the one you are using has notation, copy the generated track to the Soloist or Melody track. You'll have to use a Midi instrument to play but the notes should be the same. I believe it should keep after exiting BIAB. I don't know how it will look in the Guitar window though.
Again, BIAB 2009 is a distant memory in my pea brain.
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>>>...I would output the song as audio, print the sheet music and follow that....>>>
Umm...nope. It is MIDI that translates directly to notation. Real Tracks are audio, not MIDI. Some of the Real Tracks will show notation, but that is only because those tracks were subjected to the extra step of a person listening to the audio, figuring out the notes, and adding the required information to the RT as MIDI data. The notes you see on these tracks are only approximate, and only show in BiaB or RealBand. The notes are not saved when you save as a WAV file.
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If you want to play along with the track...
Click on Wav Icon click on all tracks rendered, maybe normalize and stereo.
This will save all your tracks as separate wav files, normally added into
DAW's.
In this case erase all the tracks except your wanted solo track.
Play it in WMP, or in Audacity(there you can change tempo).
Good Luck!
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