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I am still confused as to why you put BIAB and Finale in the same sentence. The two are apples and kumquats. Finale is notation software. BIAB/RB is composition software.

I can't find the scroll feature in this forum to find your name so "Hi (maybe Eddie)" will have to do for now.

I see you mean after searching Google with the search string "editing notation in band in the box" and finding this link.
http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/band-in-a-box-finale-amp-musicxml/184405808
If you search this web page with "Mildly" you be taken down to where he describes the shortcomings of the BIAB editor as well as some of the problems with how the program creates notation from the Midi files as it records it. But he then goes on to explain how he gets the files to Finale and back. Isn't Google amazing when you start to design improved search strings.

Below is a small extract of (how he works around the export/import problems), which will get some interested in clicking the link above to study it more thoroughlly as I am doing right now.
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Exporting with Style
To get an SMF file with the melody and sufficient harmonic information to represent the current chord symbol at the proper place, I developed a Band-In-A-Box export style by using Band-In-A-Box's Stylemaker process. Building the style took less than five minutes because the export style plays only one bass note, the root, in the bass part and only one chord in the piano accompaniment part for each chord change. The style plays a very simple version of the tune. Kind of like when you learned "Heart and Soul" on the piano when you were a kid.

So when I sell my mint condition 1981 Mark Beneteau guitar (and apply the savings from buying the lowest cost Midi setup for the ES345) I just buy both BIAB & Finale (or use MuseScore instead of Finale).

Here is an important question.
I am wondering if it is possible to run BIAB on the computer and Finale at the same time and send the Midi solos I am playing against the BIAB tracks to Finale rather than having to do a lot of editing after recording them in BIAB and getting the file to Finale. I have 4 computers at my disposal so maybe I can use a dual computer setup for this if it can not be done on my main machine which is the more powerful one. I remember now. If I buy Finale I definitely have to upgrade my most powerful machine.

Last edited by bowlesj; 07/08/12 04:24 AM.