Hey everyone. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to everyone here, staff and forum members.

Well, as much as I would like to, since we're getting a GUI revamp and other stuff, I don't think I'll have the finances to upgrade this year. But, maybe God will come along and do something so I can.

But, that's not the question of the day.

I still have my ancient PA800 keyboard, which is getting very long in tooth. I can import SMFs to create a new style in the keyboard. Now, this keyboard supports six types of Chord Variations, Major, Minor, Seventh, Sixth, Augmented and Diminished. I want to use Band in a Box styles and export them to a sequencer so that I can convert, modify and use them as basis for new styles for my old Korg.

What I am looking for is style pattern length. I am sure that it varies on each style, and possibly even on each style variation. So, the 'A' section might be different than the 'B' section, and if I'm putting together multiple style (my keyboard has four style variations, so I'd have to have an 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D' variations) it might differ there, as well.

Is there anything that tells me how long a chord variation is? For example, I have BigBand1.sty open with only a C chord for 32 bars, the default opening screen for BIAB. This is all in MIDI, by the way. I have a Bass track, which doesn't seem to change, but when I get to the piano track, it seems to restart at bar 15, but three bars later, it's not the same. So, it hasn't looped. The drums look like they loop every 8 bars. The guitar and the brass don't seem to loop at all.

SO, is there anyway to tell if certain bars DO loop, or not? I'm not even sure how much of them I can use, I may only be able to use 8 bars anyway, which means I could use 1-8 and 9-16. Who knows. lol

Secondly, and I'm not sure I remember how, or even if this is possible. I seem to recall that it is possible to copy MIDI data for Real Tracks. I think BIAB had something in it where I could look at MIDI data for tracks that were played, but I don't remember for sure.

If anyone here has any help, that would be appreciated. I'm running 2025 Ultra Pak Plus.

Thanks in advance, and again, Merry Christmas, Happy New Years and for those of you celebrating something else this time of you, Happy Holidays to you.

Gary

I'm blessed watching God do what He does best. I've had a few rough years, and I'm still not back to where I want to be, but I'm on the way and things are looking far better now than what they were!