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I've had BIAB for years but just started using BIAB 2007 with RealDrums for writing and recording (first demo with RealDrums on Garageband.com here, story: New Tune: Bottled & Blue ).

I typically export a standard MIDI file from BIAB to import into Sonar 3 and that normally includes (MIDI) drums. But on this track I used RealDrums for the first time and wanted to export that too, presumably as an audio (WAV) track. But I couldn't find a way to do this in BIAB itself. For this song, I used my sound card settings to record (in SONAR) the stereo mix with the RealDrums track soloed in BIAB. That worked and I was able to line up the MIDI and drum audio well enough, but it would be better if the drum track could be exported from BIAB directly so the MIDI and RealDrums would be synced up exactly.

Is that possible?

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Under File-> Make a Standard MIDI file...

Look for the "Include RealDrums" checkbox. Might be good to hit the Options button there.

Once you have created the MIDI file, just opening the MIDI file in your sequencer won't open the wav RealDrums track. Look for a .wav file of the same name in the same folder as the MIDI file was stored. Import that to an audio track separately.


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Thanks! I looked and could find no options under "Make standard MIDI" or Preferences to also export RealDrums (as a separate WAV file). Perhaps this was added in the 2008 or 2009 version. But I did find that I could "render to WAV" with the RealDrums track soloed, still going through my sound card "stereo mix" setting. But at least I was able to get the lead-in clicks included which will make it easier to line up this WAV file with the MIDI tracks in Sonar.


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can you get the midi out of BIAB that its using to do the REAL DRUM parts?


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When I export MIDI from a song with RealDrums, there is no MIDI drum track, so I don't know how I would get the MIDI that was replaced with RealDrums.

In any case, I have a solution that works fine, rendering the track to audio through my sound card with only RealDrums active in the track.

Thanks again,
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