Hi,

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When Jay's Blues opens in Biab, the Trumpet patch is diplayed in the main gui as the Melody instrument. What plays is a keyboards patch, not Trumpet.



bb\50SONGS\JAYS_BLS.MG1, at least the unmodified shipping version, does not have a Melody patch saved with it. This means that if your Melody track is currently set to "79 Whistle", when you open Jays Blues and play it, your melody will play whistle. However, if you were to change the melody patch to Trumpet and save the file, say as JAYS_BLS_2.MG1, and open THAT file, then you find that the melody track would always play trumpet.

This is because the current version of Band-in-a-Box defaults to saving the melody patch with your song (unless you disable that option in the save with patches dialog).

I think you would still find MIDI Monitor useful. Yes we should update the help to chm. By default it will be a "stay on top" window, so you can open and play files while watching it. Here are my filter settings, followed by an example of opening and playing a file. I am only showing the melody channel 4.






My question is, when you are in performance mode and you send your synth BankMSB 0, BankLSB 0, does that default to the GM bank (D), or do you actually need to send the synth BankMSB 81, BankLSB 3 to access the GM bank. If it's the latter, then I wonder if there is a setting to change that on the synth. There isn't an easy way in BB to tell it to remap all patches on bank 0 to a higher bank, however you could probably accomplish this with a tool like MIDI Ox.

The reason I ask is that when you said you heard keyboard instead of trumpet, this might make sense if it was playing 057 60s LeadOrg from the Preset A bank instead of 057 Trumpet from the Preset D GM bank.

Andrew
PG Music Inc.