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BB's MIDIfile editing skills are limited, but if you hit the big round green SEQ button you can see in the SEQ window what the possibilities are. You can choose certain MIDI channels to not play, you can change instrument patches. Sometimes.

There are actually two different types of MIDI files, called "MIDI type 0" and MIDI type 1".

Type 0 (zero) is a single channel that has all of the notes and instruments on one track.

Type 1 is a multitrack MIDI file. These are easier to edit.

However, Band in a Box ships with RealBand, which can open a standard MIDI file of either type. It can also to the "Extract Channels" command to place the separate instruments onto separate tracks within RB. You can edit just about any MIDI parameter you like there, notes, durations, cc's, such as Velocity, Volume, etc. and that is where you likely would want to do any hardcore MIDI editing.

Once the file has been edited in RealBand, it can then be Saved as a RealBand .seq file, but can also be Exported as a Standard MIDI File of your own naming - and that can be opened in Band in a Box with everything just the way you want it to be edited.


--Mac



Thanks very much for this Mac! I'll be doing some experimenting this weekend!

Bert

Kawai VPC1 MIDI Controller; Asus A53E Laptop running Windows 7 - 64 bit; BIAB 2017 UltraPlusPak (upgraded from 2014 EverythingPak), running from Laptop's Hard Drive.