Jed, it sounds like you know little about midi. There's a lot to it and most of it is very confusing to a noob. First, make sure it's a GM or SMF (same thing) file. You can certainly work with non GM files but it's much harder at first. Second, freebies are exactly that, free. Some are very good but most are not. There's plenty of commercial midi sites that sell the songs and those are usually very good. The cost is reasonable, maybe $5-7 each depending on how many you purchase at one time. It can take many hours of surfing around the web to many different free midi sites to find what you want. You can argue it's worth it to you to spend maybe $20 for a 4 or 5 midi file package from one of the big sites or $7 for that one tune and get instant gratification.
I'm hardly an expert but I know enough about midi to take a bad file and rework it. I can't tell you though how many times I've tried to find a particular free song by doing Google searches and finding it on 20 different sites only to find it's the exact same bad file on each site. People just copy and paste thinking they're doing us a favor. People will change the name a little bit or modify the file just enough from one site to another to make the file size a bit different so you can't tell just by looking at a website if it's the same file or not. No way to tell that without downloading it and opening it in RB. Actually, that's not strictly true. You can use a standalone midi synth like the VSC to play midi files from a website just by clicking on them. The problem is that can conflict with your setup in Biab or RB so I won't do that but that's just me. I have a fairly complex set up and don't need yet another thing to keep track of.
Still, many times even a bad midi file will at least have the roadmap of the song correct and if you're lucky the tracks with those hooks you need. If you have that, then even if the rest of the instruments suck, that's ok Biab can replace those.

Bob

Last edited by jazzmammal; 01/20/11 02:21 PM.
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