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When I want to change or sample a chord, I cannot do so.
Cannot hear it. Any takers?
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In order to hear the notes of a certain chord, you will have to open the "chord builder" to listen to the actual chord.

If you are talking about the chords you enter into the main Biab chord cells, you have to press the "play" button to generate the style that is selected to play over the chord changes currently entered.

If you are not hearing anything there, check your midi driver in and outputs.

Please elaborate on which function of Biab you are trying to use, thanks.

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And make sure Piano and Bass are not muted. When you preview a chord, those are the instruments used.


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I can't really interpret the question.

More specifics as to the version of Band in a Box, operating system and specifics as to what you are trying to accomplish.

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I know all of what you are saying.
When I try to ckick on the keys in the build-in keyboard, I hear nothing.
When I press the button to hear new chords, I can't hear them.
Songs/styles play no proble,
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Once had a similar problem with the ear training module - could not hear any chords, just roots -> reset to factory settings rectified that one ...


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Quote:

I know all of what you are saying.
When I try to ckick on the keys in the build-in keyboard, I hear nothing. (This will depend on your midi playback device, check your midi in/out settings in the driver area).

When I press the button (which button?) to hear new chords, I can't hear them.
Songs/styles play no proble,
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I can't understand why today it doesn't work; I'm writing a song and today I can't hear the accords if I click on them. The same for the notes. I can only listen when there are playing together the song. I try midi set up options but it doesn't work. Why there is no an easy way to do this for ever since the beginning? Ca Anyone give me a simple help for that? No instruments are muted, so why I can't hear them separately if I click on them?


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Same problem here...I gave up.

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blisco,

Under "Options | Preferences" and then "MIDI Driver", make sure that you have "Microsoft GS Wavetable" selected (#1 on the image below).

Does that help?

What version of BIAB are you using?

Also, can you take a screen shot of your "MIDI Driver" and then post it on the forum so that we can see it? It will help.

To save a screen capture...

1. Open "Options | Preferences | MIDI Driver".

2. Press "Print Screen" to copy the screen capture to the clipboard.

3. Open "Paint" (it comes with Windows).

4. Use CTRL+V to paste the image on clipboard into Paint.

5. Save the image as a jpg file.

6. Go to the below link and follow the instructions on how to post images in the forum.

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

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Noel

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