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With BB I sometimes use my keyboard in a live performance making use of the through option and various BB harmonies. This does not seem to be possible with RealBand. Am I right about this?
Apparently I would have to precord this material using the keyboard but it is not clear to me that this is possible. There are two questions here. How do you you record with the keyboard and how would you get the BB harmonies? Apparently one would have to record the harmonies in the BB program and then import them.
How do you record in RealBand with the keyboard?
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Just select the same MIDI device driver you are using in BB and you should be able to record and play the keyboard in RB just like in BB. You will need to make sure your are using the same drivers in both programs, including ASIO/MME choices.
Options- midi devices in RB, and the ASIO choice is under the audio options. What ASIO will do is allow the sound from the computer to respond quicker when you hit a note. Not necessary for recording keyboard, but will be faster if you are trying to play sounds from the computer live using a keyboard.
You are correct about the harmonies from BB not being the same in RB, so you would have to import them once and save it.
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With BB I sometimes use my keyboard in a live performance making use of the through option and various BB harmonies. This does not seem to be possible with RealBand. Am I right about this?
It is possible to use RealBand in live performance, certainly, but I think that Band in a Box is the more logical choice for live performance use at this point in time. For one thing, the BIAB MIDI Harmony engine is available for those live one-finger harmonies if you use them. For another, there is the BIAB Conductor feature, which is all about live performance. And I think BIAB is less complicated to use in live performance as well.
One thing I do for my live performance tunes using BIAB every once in a while is to export the song to RealBand to ADD certain things, like another recorded Audio track or two, then mix it down and re-import that whole thing onto the Audio track in BIAB by giving the .wav file the same name as the BIAB songfile and putting into the same folder where the songfile lives. That makes for superfast loading of the BB song in live performance plus can allow for more mixed in audio tracks if needed.
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Mac, it sounds like you are suggesting making an entire song into an audio track and importing it into BIAB. How do you do that?
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rharv,
What do you have in mind by importing BB harmony files into RB? In BB there is a default.har file and maybe one for the harmonies I have introduced. Is it those files that you want introduced? If not, what and how would I do it?
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Mac, it sounds like you are suggesting making an entire song into an audio track and importing it into BIAB. How do you do that?
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Not exactly.
You can export any BIAB MIDI based song by using File -> Make a Standard MIDI file command. Hit Options tab there first and check out the options, one of them will allow you to include RealDrums as a separate wav track if you are using them. This will make a standard MIDI type 1 file, multitracked.
If you also have any RealTracks in there, you can RightClick on each of the green tracknames and select from the popup menu to export each one as a separate wav file also.
In your sequencing software, RealBand, you first open the MIDI file you created. Then use the Wave -> Import to bring in each of the wav tracks one at a time to a separate track. Save as a .SEQ at that point and continue working, add new tracks, edit, whatever. Everything will still be on its own separate track this way.
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Mac, you said "re-import that whole thing back unto the Audio track in BIAB..." That is what I am trying to understand. It sounds like you are putting the entire song onto one audio track - "the Audio track" - in BIAB. My interest is in getting clear what you mean and in knowing how to do it.
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That's basically what I meant. After doing a Mixdown to one Stereo Track in Realband of the entire bunch of tracks that you need, the "re-import" back into BIAB if you want it to play from inside BIAB, involves a simple naming of that stereo wav file to the same exact name as your BIAB .SGU/.MGU sonfile, but without changing the .wav suffix.
For example, if there is a BIAB songfile named, "Mysong.MGU" and I place a .wav file in the same folder named, "Mysong.wav" then whenever I load "Mysong.MGU" in BIAB, that wave file will automatically load on the Audio track with it and will play back when I hit Play in BIAB.
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