Hi HDC,

Welcome to the forums smile

Please excuse me if I sound blunt, but from what I read, it seems like you're thinking of BIAB as a DAW; something like Sonar. If that's the case, I can relate to it because that's how I thought of BIAB when I first started using it.

BIAB can do what you want but it's not easy to achieve because it's not how BIAB was designed to be primarily used.

The easiest solution to being able to do what you want is to use Realband. This combines all the functionality of BIAB in a DAW wrapping. What I'd do is ...

1. Enter the chord chart in BIAB.

2. Set up the song with the Style that you'd like it to play.

3. Make sure the tempo of the song matches the tempo of the wav file. (Note: depending on how the wav file was recorded, it might not be easy to match the two tempos because the wav might vary slightly whereas BIAB is exactly on the beat all the time.)

4. Save the song to an SGU file.

5. Start Realband and then open up the SGU file created by BIAB. It will take a little while for Realband to generate the accompaniment (probably 60 secs).

6. Import the wav file into one of the tracks of Realband.

7. Move the wav file along to match its start with the appropriate place in the generated accompaniment tracks.

Alternatively ...

Repeats steps 1, 2, and 3 above. This time, however, once the the backing has been set, get BIAB to generate either individual backing tracks or a single backing track. Import those tracks into Sonar and match your wav file with the imported tracks.

Hope this helps,
Noel

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