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Please consider a new Style editor like a piano roll editor. I think it has be proven across the industry as the most creative way to input Midi. I think if your user community could create and share Midi styles the number of users would grow considerably.

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I want to say I really like your original idea about a sample player of some kind.


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Please consider a new Style editor like a piano roll editor. I think it has be proven across the industry as the most creative way to input Midi. I think if your user community could create and share Midi styles the number of users would grow considerably.




users DO create and trade styles... this has been possible for years.
Search the web for "free BIAB styles"

here is one hit of many:
http://www.mmissary.com/p21.htm

Also, there is a Yahoo group for BIAB that has several download directories dedicated to songs and user created styles. Membership in 3 different groups is required to access ALL of the files
Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Band-in-a-Box
or: http://www.biabgroup.com/

File Archive1: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Band-in-a-Box/files
File Archive2: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Band-in-a-Box-Files/files
File Archive3: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Band-in-a-Box-Files2/files


And if you want top notch pro styles, Bob (Notes) Norton, a member of this forum, sells them commercially at http://www.nortonmusic.com/

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They are good. But All I am asking is BIAB create a better tool for creating and editing styles. By that I mean the Midi parts. To have to record realtime for a measure for each instrument and part A/B without the visual editor or without the capability to import for all the great Midi editors available, seems a wast.

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David, you can use the piano roll editor and in the melody create the different parts you need for a style and then save to a midi file. Then you can pull the different patterns for the style back in from the midi file.

Inside the stylemaker you can select a pattern and instead of recording it, under the pull-down Pattern menu select the "Import Pattern from Midi file" option.

Just saying.

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David, you can use the piano roll editor and in the melody create the different parts you need for a style and then save to a midi file. Then you can pull the different patterns for the style back in from the midi file.

Inside the stylemaker you can select a pattern and instead of recording it, under the pull-down Pattern menu select the "Import Pattern from Midi file" option.

Just saying.




I didn't know that! That is cool! Thanks for posting that Clif!

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I didn't know that! That is cool!




It's not really something you run into unless you're actively creating styles.

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Thanks for posting that Clif!




Well, I really appreciate you posting on the Yahoo group about the the midi-specific thread, so we're good.

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On the other hand, I definitely agree with David that the piano roll is due for a major overhaul. The dropdown menus reset at the darnedest times, and the commands are somewhat clumsy, especially the basic Create Note action (shift-ctrl-LMB). It's simply a pain to work with, compared to pretty much every other MIDI editor out there.


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