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Thanks for responding.

I have a MIDI file and by default it uses General MIDI piano for the sound for the Melody track. I have not been able to find a way to make that GM MIDI Piano sound go away. For example, rather than GM MIDI Piano - Electric Piano. In the Synth window (upper left - black area) with the radio on melody, I change the value in the drop-down to, for example, electric piano, but the instrument for Melody still sounds like GM Piano - not a pleasing sound.

I have discovered that I can copy the chords from the main window into a new .SGU file, but the Melody track does not copy over. I wondered if there is a way to copy the melody track too, then perhaps there I could change the sound from GM MIDI Piano to something else and it would allow me to do so.



When loading a MIDI file into Band in a Box, tbe entire MIDI file is actually loaded into the Sequencer, which lives on the Melody Track. None of the normal Autoaccompaniment tracks have anything to do with it regardless of what they are labeled and regardless of what instruments may be in that MIDI file.

To view what's in the loaded MIDI file and change Patches, hit the big round green SEQ button from the Toolbar area to the right. There you have the Sequencer Control Window and should be able to change patches there, although some certain types of MIDI files may not respond.

Alternatively, opening the MIDI file using Realband and changing things there, then exporting to Save As a MIDI file can be a more comprehensive way to work with a MIDI file, changing things there in order to have a file that will open in BiaB the way you want to hear it.


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