By default, BIAB will automatically replace midi tracks with Realtracks. To disable this, go to "Options | Preferences | Realtracks" and remove the check mark from the option shown below on the image.
If you are looking for more MIDI styles, go to http://www.nortonmusic.com - there are many hundreds there, and I've been making them for BiaB since 1992.
If you are looking for more MIDI styles, go to http://www.nortonmusic.com - there are many hundreds there, and I've been making them for BiaB since 1992.
Notes
Do u have any pure piano style disk over there? Working on a project with lots of pure piano music. Very limited in BiaB. Do u also take orders, like if I have some midi files I like to have same style as? Have tried the stylemaker from midi, but the result never become good for me...
Forever Grateful, BUT, sometimes pissed of. Trygve "Leo" Larsen BiaB 2020, Windows 8.1, Intel Core i5 CPU, 270GHz, 32 Gb RAM My OLD tracks on Soundcloud; https://soundcloud.com/trygve-larsen My NEW is unpublished The Universe = Uni-verse ie one song.
If you are looking for more MIDI styles, go to http://www.nortonmusic.com - there are many hundreds there, and I've been making them for BiaB since 1992.
Notes
Do u have any pure piano style disk over there? Working on a project with lots of pure piano music. Very limited in BiaB. Do u also take orders, like if I have some midi files I like to have same style as? Have tried the stylemaker from midi, but the result never become good for me...
There are plenty of other styles where you can mute everything but the piano, and since they are MIDI, you can even keep the bass part in and change it to a piano. I've had some good results with that.
2) I don't do custom styles. Between gigging in my band (duo), being the 'band salesman', running all the aspects of Norton Music (accounting, webmaster, maintenance, tech support, and new product development), I just don't have any time or any way I can make a commitment. I haven't watched TV in over 30 years (I'm not complaining - I'd rather live my life by doing things than to live my life vicariously by watching actors pretend to do things).
Right now Leilani and I are working on a half dozen fake disks (including a companion for the Real Book V.6 and the Real Country Book). This has been so time consuming that I haven't worked on any new styles for about 8 months.
There are plenty of other styles where you can mute everything but the piano, and since they are MIDI, you can even keep the bass part in and change it to a piano. I've had some good results with that.
2) I don't do custom styles. Between gigging in my band (duo), being the 'band salesman', running all the aspects of Norton Music (accounting, webmaster, maintenance, tech support, and new product development), I just don't have any time or any way I can make a commitment. I haven't watched TV in over 30 years (I'm not complaining - I'd rather live my life by doing things than to live my life vicariously by watching actors pretend to do things).
Right now Leilani and I are working on a half dozen fake disks (including a companion for the Real Book V.6 and the Real Country Book). This has been so time consuming that I haven't worked on any new styles for about 8 months.
Notes
Ok, thank's for the answer Notes. I¨ll take a look to the one u mentioned...
I have also used ur way to make some songs with a pretty good result.
I also tried make som midi user styles from some real track piano this morning by deleting the real track but not the midi chart for that real track and had some success. But when I tried both bass and piano, only the piano could be heard... Will post about it in another tread and see if someone can understand why.
Very understandable that u don't have time for custom styles.
Forever Grateful, BUT, sometimes pissed of. Trygve "Leo" Larsen BiaB 2020, Windows 8.1, Intel Core i5 CPU, 270GHz, 32 Gb RAM My OLD tracks on Soundcloud; https://soundcloud.com/trygve-larsen My NEW is unpublished The Universe = Uni-verse ie one song.
I purchased some Norton styles but when I rebuild the styles list, they don't show up. I believe I have followed the installation directions correctly. I installed into C: bb. Should the actual styles be manually moved into the bb styles folder? Thanks.
There was some work done on that in a recent build. Are you up to date? What version of BIAB do you have, and what build? You can find this in Help, About.
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Hey Matt, thanks for the reply. I am running version2017 build 462. I think an update came out a couple of days ago, but I haven't had time to download amd install
I'm dense guys! Can't get it to work. I click o the slow, complete rebuild styles list, I click on the category filter I select choose, and show user category, a dialogue opens and shows the list of Norton styles. at the bottom of this dialogue the choices are refresh, open user category folder, create new category, OK, and cancel. I've tried all options, but the Norton styles don't come up when I open the style picker window.
I purchased some Norton styles but when I rebuild the styles list, they don't show up. I believe I have followed the installation directions correctly. I installed into C: bb. Should the actual styles be manually moved into the bb styles folder? Thanks.
...does this mean that c:\bb is not your BIAB folder? If so, the Norton styles need adding to the folder that you run BIAB from.
BiaB requires some additional data files for the Norton and other non-PG user styles to appear in the style picker window. This update from Norton includes the necessary 2017 files.
Once you have downloaded the file, simply follow the instructions. C:\BB is fine if you are running from your computers C drive. If you are running it from an external drive, be sure to put the files in ?:\BB where ? is the letter of your hard drive.
Then
shut BiaB and re-open it
open the style picker window
make sure the 5th filter category (down arrow) is set to either All (Real first, MIDI sorted to the bottom), Real and Real w/MIDI or MIDI only (no Real)
click the first filter category (down arrow) and select (Choose and Show User Category []...
The Norton categories should show up in that dialog box.
Thanks for he reply, Notes. Still not happening, feel like I am missing something simple. I open the style picker, click on 'show user category' which opens a box that says 'choose user category to display in style picker' In the box I see listed Norton styles, PG Music bonus styles, PG Music rediscovered styles, and PG Music xtra styles. There are buttons at the bottom labeled 'refresh', open 'user category folder', 'create new category' and 'OK'. I have tried all the options, but as far as I can tell none of these styles are added to the style picker. After I go through the procedure I filter the styles using Norton as the filter term and nothing shows up. It says in the install instructions for Norton that the Norton styles would be preceded by a # in the picker, but I don't see any. Thanks for any suggestions.
Hey Notes, I tried using # as the filter, but nothing showed up. Nothing happens when I click on one of the Norton categories in the "Choose User Category to display in StylePicker" box ( I tried Norton#EXPANDED). The selected category turns blue, and that's it. For some reason the selected category is not making it from this dialogue to the stylepicker list. Any idea which button at the bottom of the dialogue box would be the right one to push? Thank you very much for your patience.
Hey Notes, I tried using # as the filter, but nothing showed up. Nothing happens when I click on one of the Norton categories in the "Choose User Category to display in StylePicker" box ( I tried Norton#EXPANDED). The selected category turns blue, and that's it. For some reason the selected category is not making it from this dialogue to the stylepicker list. Any idea which button at the bottom of the dialogue box would be the right one to push? Thank you very much for your patience.
Make sure your Norton Styles are in the C:\BB folder (you've already done this)
Make sure the #norton?.ls3 files are in the C:\BB folder
Make sure these files: #Country-Folk-Nashville-(Norton).txt, #EXPANDED-(Norton).txt, #Hawkesford-(Norton).txt, #Jazz-Fusion-Smooth-(Norton).txt, #Latin-L.Jazz-L.Pop-(Norton).txt, #Misc-Euro-Ethnic-(Norton).txt, and #Pop-Rock-RnB-Blues-(Norton).txt are in the C:\BB\Data\StylePicker\User Categories\Norton folder
Reboot BiaB
Open the Style Picker Window
Click (Slow, Complete) Rebuild Styles List
Try again
I suspect that some file is not in the right place and Band-in-a-Box simply cannot find it.
Well I spent 40 minutes on the phone with support and it still doesn't work. Noel, thanks for your reply, I always run it as administrator, and i double checked the target path. There are a couple of things on the norton support page I am going to try tomorrow. I may not have the norton files in the proper folder order. How have you guys that have norton and pg extra and bonus files working have your folder hierarchy set? Thanks!
I appreciate your reply, Noel. If you would clear something up for me. Should the path be c\bb>styles in question, or C\bb>Data>styles in question, or, C\bb>Data>StylePicker>styles in question, or, C\bb>Data>StylePicker>User Categories>styles in question? I've never had this mucch trouble with anything like this before. Thanks again!
Three or four posts back up this thread, Notes Norton gives full instructions on how to install all the different file types. Seeing that he's the one who created these, his advice is the best to follow.
A few excerpts:
"The Tracks view is possibly the single most powerful addition in 2024 and opens up a new way to edit and generate accompaniments. Combined with the new MultiPicker Library Window, it makes BIAB nearly perfect as an 'intelligent' composer/arranger program."
"MIDI SuperTracks partial generation showing six variations – each time the section is generated it can be instantly auditioned, re-generated or backed out to a previous generation – and you can do this with any track type. This is MAJOR! This takes musical experimentation and honing an arrangement to a new level, and faster than ever."
"Band in a Box continues to be an expansive musical tool-set for both novice and experienced musicians to experiment, compose, arrange and mix songs, as well as an extensive educational resource. It is huge, with hundreds of functions, more than any one person is likely to ever use. Yet, so is any DAW that I have used. BIAB can do some things that no DAW does, and this year BIAB has more DAW-like functions than ever."
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