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More Importing problems #523062 02/07/19 04:23 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines Trygve Larsen OP Expert
OP Trygve Larsen Expert Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines	Being tired of typing in chord and lyrics, I bought SmartScore Song version.. I can se it does a decent job... The problem is BiaB. When I import the exported midi file in Biab, the chords become wrong, AS IF the correct chords, that Smart Score have read from the PDF score, are just overlooked.. BUT, when I export as XML, and import that to BiaB, the chords are correct.. What is NOT correct then, is the time signature.. The file I scanned today to test it was a plain 4/4 simple song and BiaB imported it as 2/4, so that mess up the correct chords also, by being correct in the BARS according to the score, but wrong to the notes, since the song been imported as 2/4 instead of 4/4... So this become a lot of mess for me.. BiaB cannot import 2/4 midi songs, BUT when it is served a 4/4 song as XML, THEN it gives a 2/4.. What the heck???? So my question is; Is there a way to import Midi files with the CORRECT chords that obliviously IS there? Without BiaB try to reinterpret the chords? 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8.1, Intel Core i5 CPU, 270GHz, 32 Gb RAM My OLD tracks on Soundcloud; https://soundcloud.com/trygve-larsen My NEW is unpublished The Universe = Uni-verse ie one song.

Re: More Importing problems Trygve Larsen #523148 02/07/19 10:18 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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AudioTrack Veteran Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 21,135 Melbourne, Australia	Quote: So my question is; Is there a way to import Midi files with the CORRECT chords that obliviously IS there? Without BiaB try to reinterpret the chords? The current standard for MIDI as I understand it does not support a Chord structure in is protocol. Others may know more. BIAB & RB2026 Win.(Audiophile), Windows 10 Pro & Windows 11, Cakewalk Bandlab, Izotope Prod.Bundle, Roland RD-1000, Synthogy Ivory, Session Keys Grand S & Electric R, Kontakt, Focusrite 18i20, KetronSD2, NS40M, Pioneer Active Monitors.

Re: More Importing problems Trygve Larsen #523150 02/07/19 10:22 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Pipeline Veteran P Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 7,954	Can you upload the PDF Midi XML

Re: More Importing problems Pipeline #523165 02/07/19 11:55 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP Trygve Larsen Expert Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines	Originally Posted By: Pipeline Can you upload the PDF Midi XML Ok, here is it; https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Tyven-tyven-skal-du-hete-Enak.mid?role=personal https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Tyven-tyven-skal-du-hete-Enak.xml?role=personal https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Tyven-tyven-skal-du-hete-Enak_0001.pdf?role=personal 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.

Re: More Importing problems Trygve Larsen #523175 02/07/19 01:02 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Pipeline Veteran P Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 7,954	For each file click the Share button > Create Link > Copy Link so you will get a link like this https://www.dropbox.com/s/wx83pccx098efcr/Acidizer.zip?dl=0 rather than https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Acidizer.zip?role=personal if you change the 0 to a 1 on the end it will do a direct download rather than taking the user to the site. Last edited by Pipeline; 02/07/19 01:05 PM.

Re: More Importing problems Trygve Larsen #523213 02/07/19 09:41 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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OP Trygve Larsen Expert Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines	Ok, my connection was so slow when I did it, so the sharing did not come up, but it did now, so here it is; https://www.dropbox.com/s/uzrdjddgs4gy45n/Tyven-tyven-skal-du-hete-Enak.mid?dl=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/yi4m6s0dvieqxsv/Tyven-tyven-skal-du-hete-Enak.xml?dl=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ebfkvggjjvlrwi/Tyven-tyven-skal-du-hete-Enak_0001.pdf?dl=1 Thanks's for the tip Pipeline, I did not know about that...;) 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.

Re: More Importing problems Trygve Larsen #523215 02/07/19 11:16 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Pipeline Veteran P Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 7,954	I will have a deeper look later but just try this for now Tyven-tyven-skal-du-hete-Enak4-4.xml I just opened in Notepad and changed Code: <time symbol="cut"> <beats>2</beats> <beat-type>2</beat-type> </time> to Code: <time symbol="cut"> <beats>4</beats> <beat-type>4</beat-type> </time>

Re: More Importing problems Trygve Larsen #523217 02/07/19 11:23 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Noel96 Veteran Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 20,663 Australia	Trygve, After reading Pipeline's answer above, I thought I'd try BIAB's bar settings. What seemed to work for me was to set bar settings for bar 1 and change the "2" in the "# beats this bar" to zero. I didn't scroll through the whole song but it looked to work for the first few bars. Regards, Noel Pipeline: thank you for the lesson in XML. I haven't played around with this before and I didn't realise it could be opened in notepad. MY SONGS... Audiophile BIAB 2026 audios on Soundcloud

Re: More Importing problems Pipeline #523229 02/08/19 01:21 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines Trygve Larsen OP Expert
OP Trygve Larsen Expert Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines	Originally Posted By: Pipeline I will have a deeper look later but just try this for now Tyven-tyven-skal-du-hete-Enak4-4.xml I just opened in Notepad and changed Code: <time symbol="cut"> <beats>2</beats> <beat-type>2</beat-type> </time> to Code: <time symbol="cut"> <beats>4</beats> <beat-type>4</beat-type> </time> Wow ! Thank's a lot Pipeline! This is so good to know for next time.. But it must be something wrong with the export in SmartScore, don't u think? I tested some files in another PDF to midi/XML, the PDFtoMusic Pro, from Myriad, and that program did not do the same mistake, so perhaps I will buy also that... Running a trial only, limitied to ONE page PDF... 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.

Re: More Importing problems Noel96 #523230 02/08/19 01:25 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines Trygve Larsen OP Expert
OP Trygve Larsen Expert Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines	Originally Posted By: Noel96 Trygve, After reading Pipeline's answer above, I thought I'd try BIAB's bar settings. What seemed to work for me was to set bar settings for bar 1 and change the "2" in the "# beats this bar" to zero. I didn't scroll through the whole song but it looked to work for the first few bars. Ok, thank's for stepping in Noel.. I've give that a shot tomorrow... 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.

Re: More Importing problems Pipeline #523232 02/08/19 01:42 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines Trygve Larsen OP Expert
OP Trygve Larsen Expert Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines	Originally Posted By: Pipeline I will have a deeper look later but just try this for now Tyven-tyven-skal-du-hete-Enak4-4.xml Tried that one now, and it worked perfectly.. Thank's again Pipeline... 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.

Re: More Importing problems Noel96 #523244 02/08/19 03:20 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines Trygve Larsen OP Expert
OP Trygve Larsen Expert Joined: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,143 Philippines	Originally Posted By: Noel96 Trygve, After reading Pipeline's answer above, I thought I'd try BIAB's bar settings. What seemed to work for me was to set bar settings for bar 1 and change the "2" in the "# beats this bar" to zero. You are a genius Joel ! THAT worked perfectly, and so quick and easy to do.. Thank's a lot.. That would never ever come to my mind...;) 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.

Re: More Importing problems Trygve Larsen #528571 03/13/19 06:00 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 4 Idaho G glevideo Newbie
glevideo Newbie G Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 4 Idaho	Trygve, please outline for me all the steps you go through to successfully scan in sheet music and import into BIaB. I'm a newbie and struggling with this functionality. Your help is appreciated. Thanks.

Re: More Importing problems Trygve Larsen #528580 03/13/19 06:30 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,653 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY Matt Finley Veteran
Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,653 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	Music XML is very readable if you've ever worked with code, just terribly wordy. Videotrack's comment may have been overlooked: the MIDI standard does not include chord symbols. That's why you will do better to export from Smart Score as Music XML and not MIDI. BIAB 2026 Win Audiophile. Software: Fender Studio One 8, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Fender Quantom HD8 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: More Importing problems glevideo #528581 03/13/19 06:33 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
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Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,653 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	Originally Posted By: glevideo Trygve, please outline for me all the steps you go through to successfully scan in sheet music and import into BIaB. I'm a newbie and struggling with this functionality. Your help is appreciated. Thanks. Glevideo, welcome to the forum. Your question received a few answers (including mine) in the other forum, so please check that. https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=75338&Number=528550#Post528550 Also, you'll do better in the future to start a new thread so we can concentrate on just your question. BIAB 2026 Win Audiophile. Software: Fender Studio One 8, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Fender Quantom HD8 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: More Importing problems Matt Finley #528805 03/14/19 05:47 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 4 Idaho G glevideo Newbie
glevideo Newbie G Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 4 Idaho	Thank you, Matt and others. I guess there's not a real easy button for this one. I'll look into MuseScore or perhaps roll up my sleeves and start to tackle manual note by note entry and see if I can then bring all three lines of music together and make sense of it. Thanks again. Gary

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