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Hi,
Just trying to figure out how to have it play an octive lower than writen on a midi guitar track.

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rjmusic,

Welcome to the forums.

I don't think that I'm fully understanding your post. If you mean that you'd like the midi guitar track that BIAB generated to play one octave lower, try this...

1. Open "Options | Preferences".

2. Click on "Channels" (#1 on image below).

3. In the octave column (#2), set the Guitar (#3) to -1.

Settings are: 0 = normal octave; -1 = octave lower; 1 = octave higher.

Note: if you are talking about midi files that you've downloaded from the net, the process is more complicated because BIAB is not primarily designed as a midi sequencer. (Realband is better for this.)

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Thanks, that worked. However, I'm running into some issues with notation.
Questions:
1. So the notation doesn't follow the midi octive? It doesn't change when I select a different octive in the midi as you showed me.
2. And, is there a known notation bug in BIAB 2018?
2a. Several times after I've entered notation, I've had the following happen:
2b. I open the file and the notation will be written an octive higher or lower than I originally wrote it. Also, certain notes drop down a couple of octives and when I try to move them back, they won't.
Sometimes the song will open with the notation written two octives lower than I originally entered it.
I'm trying to insert an image in this post, but the only option seems to be to insert a webpage image.
Thanks for any help.

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Which track are you modifying the notation on? Is it the Melody track?




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Regarding inserting an image (in Windows)....

1. Use printscreen to capture the desktop to the Clipboard.

2. Open the program 'Paint' and use CTRL+V to paste the clipboard image into Paint.

3. Save the image in Paint as JPG.

Now follow the instructions at the below URL to post an image using the forums 'Filemanager'.

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=386690#Post386690




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Right; if you are entering guitar parts on the Melody track, then you would want to adjust the octave setting in that row (two rows under the Guitar row).

For others reading, this is a reasonable request. A guitar sounds an octave below the written notation.


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The notation is actually showing as a Guitar Track. Doesn't seem to be a track labeled as the Melody Track.
If it's possible to rename it, I may have.

I still can't get the image thing to work, so I put up dummy website that shows both the notation screen and what I see when I try to post an image.
Here's the site:
http://biaberrors.weebly.com/home/biab-notation-and-posting-image-issues
BIAB ERRORS DUMMY PAGE

Really appreciate the help.

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I checked your display for posting and it is definitely different to what I would expect. This is mine:

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