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MIDI Harmonies
1 - We need a better way to select a MIDI harmony in the way of the stylepicker (harmonies w/two voices, w/three voices, search by key word,...)
2 - It would be nice also to extend the maximum number of entries to 1024.
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Chords entry ideas (partial midi related ?  To accept numeric chord entry : 1 maj, 2 m7, b3 maj7, etc.. in relation to the key, BIAB will translate it into proper alphabetical chord entry. Also, a preference setting to view chord as alphabet or numeric, so BIAB would also translate existing chords into numeric.
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To enable chords to be viewed / printed as Eb / Bb instruments, while sounding in concert C pitch. Good for wind players to practice improvisation along.
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Hi, I wish that the Melodyst and the Soloist builder gets updated, meaning maybe to add some more "playing" styles or maybe to add some more artists to them. I've been following the melodyst and the soloist builder since 2007 and have not seen a lot of difference on them, I'm just referring to the midi part of it, nor RT's.I asked once in the past for a in this case a new "latin" or 'salsa" melody style, but maybe there is not much demand for it. Oh well.
Mike B.
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Chords entry ideas (partial midi related ?
To accept numeric chord entry : 1 maj, 2 m7, b3 maj7, etc.. in relation to the key, BIAB will translate it into proper alphabetical chord entry.
Also, a preference setting to view chord as alphabet or numeric, so BIAB would also translate existing chords into numeric.
It's already there.
John Conley
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To enable chords to be viewed / printed as Eb / Bb instruments, while sounding in concert C pitch. Good for wind players to practice improvisation along.
See the Practice Icon. Cmon, quit asking for stuff we've had forever. And that's not midi related really.
I play Eb and Bb horns, transpose print all no problem. Play along the song is on the screen in G but playing in F and b flat horn is dead on.
John Conley
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I'm glad it's already there! And I do apologize for not finding out first.
Thanks.
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First, BIAB is an awesome app. I've used it for WELL over a decade. It has tons of features under the cover. If I've missed an easy way to do what I'm proposing PLEASE let me know.
There are currently keyboard shortcuts for controlling song playback. I.E. Ctrl-NUMPAD 2 to loop the middle chorus. For us that play with two hands it is tough to use a laptop keyboard to control song playback in live situations. I saw a post for someone looking for a foot controller that would allow a guitarist to direct song playback. I want the same thing. But I don't think I'll find a foot controller that sends out custom PS-2 keyboard codes. (Might be a nice hobby project, but really...)
Midi foot controllers are common. If I could loop the intro, head, chorus (improv), and ending by stomping on a midi controller it would really be nice. All I need is for BIAB to support looping a range of bars based on a midi key input.
Devils in the details and making this a musical function would required implementing much of what already is in the Song Navigation Keystrokes built into BIAB. Like jumping to the next loop only after the current one completes.
Thanks for considering...
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Printing of the chord sheet of a song.
When there is a time signature change and a chord change, the both interfere : so in this case, the chord name has to be right shifted.
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New chord masks
In the StyleMaker, it would be nice to get new chord masks for extended chords. That would enable the realization of the extended chords without all the chord notes with specific notes disposition.
-for Xm9/X9 because most of times, these chords are played Xm7/X7 in BIAB
-for X13 because most of times, this chord is played X7 or X9 in BIAB.
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StyleMaker colors
In the Stylemaker, when you want to edit some patterns of a style and when you have 60, 70 or more patterns for each instrument, it becomes a forced labour to do the work because you don't know where are your prefill patterns, where are yourbar1, bar2,... patterns, where are your FillA/FillB patterns,...
My proposal is to use colours to identify the different kinds of patterns:
Bar1, bar2, ..., bar8
Prefill/FillA/fillB/postfill...
That is simple, very ergonomic, and it seems easy to implement.
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Styles with Pushes Override:
It would be nice, for the styles with Pushes, to add a feature ‘Disable Pushes for this bar’. This setting would be available in Song Settings.
When this feature is enabled for a post fill bar, that would make the new section of the song to start ON the beat, as would do most of real bands.
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Import Melody MIDI partial file to any bar
It would be nice to be able to import a Melody from MIDI file into any bar, and not only the whole file as it is possible at present time. Import Melody file (from bar#...to bar#...) into Melody Track at bar#...
Same request for Soloist track.
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Prevent bass octave skips
It would be nice to get the following feature :
For the Bass track, when you have a diatonic or chromatic change in the root changes of the chords, don’t do an octave skip. Example : for following chords |E |F E7 | D |, bass notes should be E4 |F4 E4 |D4 instead of E3 | F4 E3|D4 .
At present time, we have to manually edit the bass track, before freezing it in order to get a professionnal bass line.
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Songpicker wrong disk number display
In BIAB help section, it is recommended to use disk#1000 for our user styles (for LS3 files or stylepicker editor). That is what I did. But, when you open the Song Picker, your styles appear with disk#232.
Could that be fixed ?
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A collection of predefined slides/slurs both up and down which could be applied to selected midi notes in the event or notation windows(maybe in a drop down menu?)to add a bluesy feeling to midi guitar or other instruments.
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Hybrid Styles Editor :
For hybrid styles edition purpose, it should be nice :
1 - under the menu Styles| Make a hybrid style, to have the Edit command, to change a part of an hybrid style, without the need of fully rebuild the hybrid style (for.ex. change only the guitar part from style#1 to another part from style#2)
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2 – have the ability to manually enter the required data in a new field of the StyleMaker/Misc page like for Multistyles data.
Example :
Drums : from ZZBOUNCY.STY
Bass : from ZZJAZZ.STY
Guitar : from WILLID.STY.
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StyleMaker : Multiple conditions settings
It would be nice to make working the multiple conditions settings in the stylemaker.
For example: For the bass, we have two 2-beat patterns with following settings (plus other 2-beat patterns with different settings):
Pattern#1
Relative weight=9
Playback bar mask = fill
Playback beat mask=beat1
Pattern#2
Relative weight=9
Playback bar mask = fill
Playback beat mask=beat3.
This configuration is required for example to get a given bass line during a fill bar and when there is a chord change during the fill bar.
When you hit play, at the fill bar, the pattern#1 would be played first, and then the pattern#2 starting at beat3. In fact, we could get any combination of patterns, including all other 2-beat patterns present in the style. So, the required bass fill riff is not guaranteed.
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Good grief, this thread is a joke. An absolute joke. Almost all of you guys have no idea what midi is. What's the title of this thread? .."Midi specific ideas." Anybody have a clue what that means? It means stuff like editing midi notes in the piano roll, copy/pasting midi parts, midi channels, assigning midi instruments, velocity curves, CC implementation (anybody know what that is?), the midi monitor, the midi drum kit and other "midi specific ideas" I can't think of right now. From what I see there's maybe 3 or 4 posts that are actually midi specific ideas out of 5 pages of crap.
Any one of us who actually knows a bit about midi took one look at the first page of posts in this thread and bailed.
Peter's thread title has nothing to do with styles, style requests, creating hybrid styles, the soloist/melodist, printing notation, generating of harmony parts, transposing, why doesn't Biab work with JABB, (this isn't a questions thread) none of that. Every one of these things are already requested and talked about here in separate threads in the Wishlist forum and questions go in the proper program forum not the Wishlist forum. Why haven't any of you taken the time to read this forum first? That plus a lot of things talked about here are already implemented but nobody has taken the time to research their request either brfore posting.
This thread was supposed to be a "midi ideas thread" supposedly for people who are familiar with midi in the first place.
I'm just another user looking for good discussions and maybe learn something but in attempting to read this thread I feel like a monitor in a kindergarten class.
Jeesh..
Bob
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I wish the output chords feature was more like an extra part, completely independant of other parts. Currently in the Mac version, I can't use ouput chords, melody and soloist at the same time.
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